ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
Your company runs an e-commerce workload on Amazon EC2 instances inside a VPC. To meet compliance, the security team is documenting which controls fall to the customer and which are handled by AWS under the shared responsibility model for IaaS. Which task is AWS responsible for in this environment?
Applying security patches to the hypervisor that hosts the EC2 instances
Rotating passwords for IAM users who deploy application updates
Configuring the VPC security group rules that control inbound HTTPS traffic
Encrypting the customer database files stored on attached Amazon EBS volumes
In the AWS shared responsibility model for Infrastructure as a Service, AWS is responsible for "security of the cloud," which includes the physical facilities, networking, storage infrastructure, and the virtualization layer that hosts customer instances. Patching and maintaining the underlying hypervisor falls squarely within AWS's domain. In contrast, customers must configure security groups and network ACLs, encrypt their own application data, and manage their IAM users' credentials.
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