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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 · Domain 2: Security and Compliance

How responsibilities shift across Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, AWS Lambda and Amazon S3

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Last reviewed September 30, 2026 · Leer en español

The shared responsibility model is not one fixed line. The more AWS manages for you, the more responsibility moves to AWS and the less remains with you. Comparing four common services makes the shift clear, and the exam often asks 'who does what' for exactly these: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), AWS Lambda and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

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