Shared Responsibility Model Flashcards
What is the Shared Responsibility Model?
Defines the division of responsibilities between the cloud provider and the consumer.
What is a Traditional Corporate Datacenter?
A setup where the company is responsible for physical space, security, server maintenance, and software infrastructure.
What are the Responsibilities in a Traditional Datacenter?
Physical space maintenance, security, server maintenance, software infrastructure management.
What are the Responsibilities in Cloud Computing?
Shared between cloud provider and consumer, with provider handling physical aspects and consumer managing data and access security.
What are Consumer Responsibilities in Cloud Computing?
Data and information stored in the cloud, access security, devices allowed to connect to the cloud.
What are Cloud Provider Responsibilities?
Physical datacenter, physical network, physical hosts.
What are Shared Responsibilities in Cloud Computing?
Dependent on the service model: IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS.
What are IaaS Responsibilities?
Consumer-centric, with cloud provider handling physical security, power, and connectivity, and consumer managing operating systems, network controls, applications, identity, and infrastructure.
What are PaaS Responsibilities?
Middle ground between IaaS and SaaS, shared responsibilities between provider and consumer.
What are SaaS Responsibilities?
Provider-centric, with cloud provider handling most responsibilities, including physical infrastructure, leaving consumer with minimal management tasks.
