Question 480
For the following requirement, which AWS concept gives the most accurate explanation? A team relies on AWS to configure whether customer data is encrypted with keys chosen by the organization.
Explanation
Correct Answer
The customer has responsibility for appropriate data protection and key configuration under the selected service. This is the best underlying concept for the stated situation. The customer has responsibility for appropriate data protection and key configuration under the selected service. The key business clue is: Look for encryption settings, key policies, and obligations for sensitive information. A suitable choice is: Select appropriate data-encryption and key-access settings for the workload. An expected result is: Authorized users can decrypt approved data while unauthorized identities cannot. Important limitation: Provider infrastructure encryption does not remove the need to manage key access.
Incorrect Answers
Managed services shift more infrastructure operations to AWS while leaving data protection and access choices with the customer. That addresses a different mechanism; this question turns on The customer has responsibility for appropriate data protection and.
Customers retain responsibility for their Lambda function code and application data handling. In the present case the governing issue is The customer has responsibility for appropriate data protection and, which this does not resolve.
The customer is responsible for configuring and patching the guest operating system on EC2 instances. That observation may hold without resolving the relevant issue: The customer has responsibility for appropriate data protection and.