Question

A company runs several Amazon EC2 instances to host their web applications. The security team wants to clarify who is responsible for keeping the operating system patched and up to date. According to the AWS shared responsibility model, who is responsible for operating system patches on EC2 instances?

Accepted Answer

The customer is responsible for patching the guest operating system on EC2 instances

Answer

AWS is responsible for patching all operating systems running on EC2 instances

Answer

AWS and the customer share equal responsibility for operating system patches

Answer

AWS is responsible for patches if the customer enables automatic patching in the EC2 console