A cybercrime investigator is evaluating a data breach in a company's AWS infrastructure. The breached service was categorized as an AWS container service. What primary security aspects were likely managed by the company and not by AWS, which the investigator should first focus on?
In AWS's shared responsibility model, AWS manages the security of the cloud, including the physical infrastructure and foundational services, but the customer is responsible for security in the cloud, especially aspects like network configuration, data management, and firewall configuration. Given that the question centers on a data breach in an AWS container service, the primary security aspects the customer would manage and that the investigator should focus on include data management and firewall configuration. These elements are crucial for maintaining the security of data and ensuring proper access controls, which are often the first line of defense against breaches.
For container services such as Amazon RDS, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, AWS manages the application platform and OS along with the basic infrastructure. Customers here are responsible for data management and firewall configuration that grant them access to the selected container service.