The synergy of shared resilience
The collaborative nature of the model is what makes it a catalyst for resilience. AWS’s focus on the foundational layers allows them to invest heavily in redundancy, failover mechanisms, and threat detection at a scale that most individual organizations could not replicate. This provides a robust foundation upon which users can build.
The customer’s role is equally crucial. By managing their data, applications, and configurations, they can tailor their environment to their specific security and resilience needs. This includes implementing encryption, network firewalls, logging, and monitoring. This granular control, coupled with AWS’s foundational security, creates a multi-layered defense mechanism that is far more resilient than either party could achieve alone.
Figure 5.1 shows a simplified version of what the responsibilities between AWS and customers look like. A more detailed diagram can be found in the official AWS documentation...
