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name: transit-gateway-tg-responsibilities
title: Understanding your responsibilities when using IBM Cloud Transit Gateway
description: Learn about the management responsibilities and terms and conditions that you have when you use IBM Cloud® Transit Gateway. For a high-level view of the service types in IBM Cloud® and the breakdown of responsibilities between the customer and IBM for each type, see Shared responsibilities for IBM Cloud offerings.
last-updated: 2024-10-10
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Understanding your responsibilities when using IBM Cloud Transit Gateway
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Learn about the management responsibilities and terms and conditions that you have when you use IBM Cloud® Transit Gateway. For a high-level view of the service types in IBM Cloud® and the breakdown of responsibilities between the customer and IBM for each type, see [Shared responsibilities for IBM Cloud offerings](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview?topic=overview-shared-responsibilities&format=markdown).
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Review the following sections for the specific responsibilities for you and for IBM when you use IBM Cloud Transit Gateway. For the overall terms of use, see [IBM Cloud® Terms and Notices](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview?topic=overview-terms&format=markdown).

## IBM Cloud infrastructure
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You and IBM have unique responsibilities for infrastructure provisioning and management.

| Responsibilities |  Ownership |
|---------------------------|------|
| Deploy a fully managed, highly available, secured, IBM-owned infrastructure | IBM |
| Provision and manage the Transit Gateway | IBM |
| Fulfill requirements for additional capacity based on use | IBM |
| Follow the instructions in the IBM Cloud Transit Gateway user documentation to make any necessary configurations (such as setting up Local or Global gateway and connections to resources) based on the features used | Customer |
| Use the provided API or UI to configure the Transit Gateway for your connections | Customer |
| Monitor service notifications for communications regarding maintenance operations | Customer |
| Manage service quotas and monitor quota notifications  | Customer |
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## Security and regulation compliance
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You and IBM have unique responsibilities for security and compliance.

| Responsibilities |  Ownership |
|---------------------------|------|
| Automatically apply security updates to keep the Transit Gateway service up to date | IBM |
| Follow the instructions in the IBM Cloud Transit Gateway user documentation to make any necessary configurations based on the features used | Customer |
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## Disaster recovery
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You and IBM have unique responsibilities for disaster recovery.

| Responsibilities |  Ownership |
|----------|-----------------------|
| Monitor and automatically recover the service to prevent an outage | IBM |
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