Appendix B. Answer Key
Chapter 2 Answer Key
B: While AWS is responsible for securing the underlying infrastructure and its physical security, customers are accountable for securing their applications, configuring security settings, and managing their cloud environments.
B: AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service. Amazon EC2 is an IaaS offering due to its provision of virtualized compute resources. Amazon RDS is a PaaS due to its managed database capabilities. Amazon Chime is a SaaS application for communications.
C: Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service, Amazon S3 provides storage capabilities, Amazon EC2 offers scalable virtual machines in the cloud, and AWS Glue is utilized for data preparation and transformation.
B: Public cloud environments do not offer full control over infrastructure or operate on a multi-tenant model to achieve cost savings through shared resources. While public cloud providers implement robust security, no system is entirely immune to cyber threats.
B: Cloud computing eliminates the need for companies to purchase and manage physical servers, provides on-demand access to IT resources such as storage and computing power, is distinct from on-premises environments like private data centers, and while it can support AI applications, its overall definition is much broader.
B: IAM is responsible for managing permissions, roles, and policies to secure AWS resources, but not for direct encryption. In contrast, AWS CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail ...
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