Your company has deployed a web application on Amazon EC2 instances. As part of your security compliance checks, you want to ensure that the operating system patches are up to date. Whose responsibility is it to maintain the operating system in this scenario?
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AIt is the customer's responsibility to maintain the operating system.
BBoth AWS and the customer are responsible for maintaining the operating system.
CThe responsibility varies and must be specified in a service level agreement (SLA).
DIt is AWS's responsibility to maintain the operating system.
✓ Correct answer: A. It is the customer's responsibility to maintain the operating system.When using Amazon EC2, AWS is responsible for the infrastructure that runs all of the services offered in the AWS Cloud. This includes the hardware, the software that runs the virtualization environment, and the physical security of the data centers. However, the customer is responsible for the security <em>in</em> the cloud, which includes the operating system, applications, and data on the EC2 instances. Therefore, it falls to the customer to ensure that the operating system patches are kept up to date.
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