Question

A company runs several applications on Amazon EC2 instances. During a security audit, the team needs to determine who is responsible for applying security patches to the guest operating system running on those EC2 instances. According to the AWS shared responsibility model, who is responsible for this task?

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

AWS is responsible for patching the guest operating system on EC2 instances.

Answer

AWS is responsible because operating systems are part of the physical infrastructure.

Answer

The responsibility is shared equally, with AWS applying critical patches automatically.