Understanding the security responsibilities

AWS security operates on a shared responsibility model comprising of parts to be managed by you and parts managed by AWS. This model consists of three parts—infrastructure security, application security, and services security:

  • Infrastructure securityAWS has a whole host of industry recognized compliance certifications against various security-centric standards such as Payment Card Industry (PCI), NIST, SSAE, and ISO, as well as PCI DSS 2.0 Level 1, ISO 9001, 27001, 27017, 27018, and so on.
  • Application security: Services that support security implementation—such as IAM policies, origin protection, ACM integration, keys/certificate rotation, and so on—in applications makes them more secure without ...

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