The essence of collaboration

At its core, the shared responsibility model is a framework that distributes the onus of security and operational reliability between AWS and its customers. This is not a division of labor meant to dilute responsibility, but rather a strategic alignment of expertise and control.

AWS, as the cloud provider, shoulders the responsibility for the resiliency of the cloud, ensuring the underlying infrastructure’s reliability, availability, and security, ranging from physical data centers to foundational services. AWS is responsible for the resiliency of its underlying infrastructure, including hardware, software, networking, and facilities. They strive to ensure service availability meets or exceeds their service-level agreements (SLAs). The AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure is designed to enable customers to build highly resilient workloads, with each AWS Region consisting of multiple, isolated Availability Zones (AZs) interconnected with high-bandwidth...