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Shared Responsibility Model

Will be critical for not only the architecture certificate, but also other certifications.

Amazon Responsibility

  • Reliability of the cloud
  • Security of the datacenter
  • Underlying networking
  • Hypervisor

Your responsibility

  • Customer Data
  • Platform
  • Application
  • Identity and Access management
  • Client and Server side encryption
  • Operating system configurations
  • Application Configurations

Exam Tips

  • Ask "Can I do this myself in the cloud?"
  • If Yes, you are likely responsible
  • If Not, then most likely Amazon is responsible
  • Encryption is shared responsibility
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