Understanding your role versus the role of Amazon Web Services (AWS) ensures you will make the best decisions concerning your cloud infrastructure. It also ensures, once implemented, your cybersecurity strategy will efficiently and cost-effectively protect your data from threats. No matter which services you are utilizing, it is important to understand your security responsibilities so you can build a security-in-depth strategy for your environment. Here are the best practices for cloud security that you should implement in order to protect yourself from the next vulnerability and/or wide-scale attack.