AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 668

Which task is the customer's responsibility, according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

Answer options

• A. Patch a guest operating system that is deployed on an Amazon EC2 instance.
• B. Control physical access to an AWS data center.
• C. Control access to AWS underlying hardware.
• D. Patch a host operating system that is deployed on Amazon S3.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, the customer is responsible for security "in" the cloud, which includes managing and patching the guest operating system on infrastructure services like Amazon EC2. AWS is responsible for security "of" the cloud, which encompasses the physical security of data centers, underlying hardware, and the host operating systems of managed services like Amazon S3.