New Training: Plan for AWS Account Management

In this 9-video skill, CBT Nuggets trainer Bart Castle teaches you Amazon Web Services (AWS) account management designs and best practices. Learn about planning for the right levels of isolation to meet modern organizations’ security, compliance, and control requirements. Gain an understanding of the shared responsibility trade-off between AWS and its consumers. Watch this new AWS training.

Learn AWS with one of these courses:

• AWS Certified Security – Specialty

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

• AWS Certified Developer – Associate

This training includes:

• 9 videos

• 1 hour of training

You’ll learn these topics in this skill:

• Global Infrastructure

• Multiple Accounts

• Organizations

• Shared Responsibilities

• Trusted Advisor

• Service Limits

• APIs and Endpoints

• CloudTrail API Logging

• Demonstrating CloudTrail

How the AWS Shared Responsibility Model Works

Amazon Web Services operates off of a shared responsibility model, dividing specific obligations between AWS and the customer. As a general rule, the customer is responsible for security "in" the cloud, while AWS is responsible for security "of" the cloud.

Customers can have a wide range of obligations depending on the cloud services they select. For example, if abstracted services like Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3 are used, AWS takes care of the infrastructure. However, when Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) products (such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2) are employed, the customer is required to perform all of the required security configuration and management tasks.

Regardless of which additional tasks Amazon takes on with various services, it is always responsible for the physical infrastructure, including the hardware and facilities that house all AWS Cloud services. Additionally, the retail gian takes care of all base software requirements and networking connections.