managed AWS services
- Definition
- Services where AWS handles the undifferentiated heavy lifting — provisioning, patching, backups, scaling, and high availability — so you focus on your data and application.
- Examples the exam names
- The shared responsibility shift
- The more managed a service is, the less you are responsible for.
- Amazon EC2 (IaaS) — you patch the OS, the runtime, and the app.
- Amazon RDS (PaaS-like) — AWS patches the OS and the database engine; you handle schema, queries, and access control.
- AWS Lambda (serverless) — you are responsible for your code and its permissions, essentially nothing else.
- In every case, you always own your data, its classification, and who can access it.
- Not to be confused with
- AWS Managed Services (AMS) — a paid offering where AWS operates your entire AWS environment for you.