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AWS shared responsibility

AWS shared responsibility

- [Instructor] Cloud computing is defined as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, and on-demand network assets to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. This shared pool of configurable computing resources is actually composed of thousands of high-powered physical rack servers that are scattered in multiple data centers all across the globe. Each of these servers has enterprise-grade processors that can generate hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines that can be used by thousands of customers. A physical server is also called a host computer, which runs the host operating system and a hypervisor. This hypervisor is responsible for generating multiple virtual machines, each with its own guest operating system that is chosen by the customer. So if you have a virtual machine right now in the US East Northern Virginia region, your server instance, is actually running in one of the physical rack…

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