Understanding the Shared Responsibility Model

AWS offers public cloud services that allow customers to build isolated environments within the cloud platform. AWS manages and secures all the underlying infrastructure such as network, storage, and compute services, as well as host hypervisor software, among others. AWS also takes care of physical security, which includes access to its data centers, where your workloads are hosted. AWS gives the customer access to those infrastructure components to build their cloud applications and solutions. One customer's approach to designing an application architecture will be different from another and to facilitate different requirements, AWS shares security and compliance responsibilities with the customer.

While the customer can rest assured that all the underlying physical infrastructure, access to data center buildings, and host hypervisor systems are secured and stringently managed by AWS, how their applications are designed, built...