Public Cloud Provider
Last Updated: Tuesday, 01 January 2017 02:43AM v091bh12
REOL Services presently utilizes Amazon Web Services as the sole Public Cloud service provider, however, vendor selection may change at our discretion.
AWS employs shared responsibility model and provides base infrastructure foundation. Under the AWS shared responsibility model, AWS provides a global secure infrastructure and foundation for compute, storage, networking and database services, as well as higher level services.
AWS provides a range of security services and features that REOL Services use to secure client assets.
REOL Services are responsible for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of client data in the cloud, and for meeting specific business requirements for information protection (as per individual client agreement).
To ensure a secure global infrastructure, AWS configures infrastructure components and provides services and features that can used to enhance security, such as the Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, which we use to manage users and user permissions in a subset of AWS services. To ensure secure services, AWS offers shared responsibility models for each of the different type of services:
- Infrastructure services
- Container services
- Abstracted services
The shared responsibility model for infrastructure services, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), specifies that AWS manages the security of the following assets:
- Facilities
- Physical security of hardware
- Network infrastructure
- Virtualization infrastructure
REOL Services manages higher level service assets:
- Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
- Operating systems
- Applications
- Data in transit
- Data at rest
- Data stores
- Credentials
- Policies and configuration