AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 635

In the AWS shared responsibility model, which tasks are the responsibility of AWS? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Patch an Amazon EC2 instance operating system.
• B. Configure a security group.
• C. Monitor the health of an Availability Zone.
• D. Protect the infrastructure that runs Amazon EC2 instances.
• E. Manage access to the data in an Amazon S3 bucket.

Correct answer: C, D

Explanation

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for the 'security of the cloud,' which includes safeguarding the physical infrastructure that hosts Amazon EC2 and monitoring global infrastructure like Availability Zones. Conversely, the customer is responsible for 'security in the cloud,' which includes patching guest operating systems, configuring security groups, and managing access to Amazon S3 data.