Think security

Cloud security is a shared responsibility between the Cloud Provider and the Cloud Customer

The customer is still responsible for a lot the security implementation

A lot of people new to cloud misunderstand this second point

Cloud Provider (AWS) Responsibilities	Cloud Customer Responsibilities

Cloud Provider (AWS) Responsibilities	Cloud Customer Responsibilities
Physical security	Network-level security
Infrastructure	Application-level security
Equipment	Data-level security
Seperation from other Cutsomers	Secure transmission of data (HTTPS over HTTP)
Prodive Identity Access-leve controls	Use Identity Access-level controls, to control who has access the AWS services
	Use up to date access keys to access AWS APIs, they can be passed into the application during bootstrapping, but stored in a secure AWS data location like an S3 bucket or the AWS credentials file, see here for more information
	User Security Groups which like firewalls to AWS resources