Stage 2 · Lesson 2 of 8
The shared responsibility model
is split. The secures the physical data centres, hardware, network and the platform itself. You secure what you put on it: who can log in, what they can do, your data, your network rules and, on , the operating system too.
The more managed the service, the more the provider covers, but identities, access and data always stay with you. Most real cloud breaches are customer misconfiguration, such as a public storage bucket or a leaked admin key, not a failure by the provider.
Common trapassuming that because a service is managed, the provider also decides who may read your data.
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