Security can't be an afterthought. It is essential in the multi-tenant environment of the cloud.
It is clearly defined what the responsibility of AWS is as a service provider, and what the responsibility of a customer is as a consumer of AWS resources, and that helps to make the environment more secure. These responsibilities are provided in the following diagram:
AWS is responsible for securing the cloud infrastructure, while the customer is responsible for configuring security in the cloud.
The responsibility of AWS and the customer may change based on the cloud service model that's used by the customer.
A Platform as a Service (PaaS) model demands more responsibility from AWS compared to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) because the customer has very...