Effective DevOps with AWS

The shared responsibility model

In this world of shared responsibility, AWS provides the security of the cloud and, as an AWS user, you are responsible for providing the security in the cloud. In other words, AWS will take care of securing the data centers, the physical infrastructure, the physical network, the virtualization layer, and the host's operating systems. In turn, as an AWS user, you are responsible for managing and operating the guest operating systems, applying security patches, IAM permissions, security groups, and access policies.

As we know, AWS provides several managed services which make understanding the shared responsibility model sometimes confusing. From a security standpoint, those services can be broken up into three ...