Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

Shared responsibility model

Like the other main public cloud vendors, GCP has what is known as a shared responsibility agreement.

Google is not responsible for what resides in the operating system. It's important to understand the principle of shared responsibility for the exam. Google won't be responsible for everything in your architecture, so we must be prepared to take our share of the responsibility. For the exam, we should understand that the different GCP services that are offered mean that Google and the customer will have different levels of responsibility. As an example, let's look at Cloud Storage. Google will manage the encryption of storage and the hardware providing the service and will allow audit logging. However, it will ...