The Shared Responsibility Model

Summary

The cloud provider secures the underlying infrastructure ('security of the cloud'), while you're responsible for securing what you configure and deploy on top of it ('security in the cloud') — misunderstanding this split is a common source of real breaches.

• 1Read your target provider's official shared responsibility model diagram.
• 2List 3 specific things that remain your responsibility even on a fully managed service.
• 3Learn why 'the cloud got hacked' is almost always actually a customer misconfiguration.