Question

A company is running a customer relationship management (CRM) application using Amazon RDS for MySQL. The security team wants to understand who is responsible for applying security patches to the MySQL database engine. According to the AWS shared responsibility model, who is responsible for patching the database engine?

Accepted Answer

AWS is responsible for patching the database engine

Answer

The customer is responsible for patching the database engine

Answer

Both AWS and the customer share equal responsibility for patching the database engine

Answer

The customer is responsible only if they have enabled automatic patching in the RDS configuration