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I've noted the AWS security bulletins[0] list nearly every Xen advisory with "AWS customers' data and instances are not affected by these issues, and there is n
by technion 10y ago
I've noted the AWS security bulletins[0] list nearly every Xen advisory with "AWS customers' data and instances are not affected by these issues, and there is no customer action required."
It would appear? you'd need to go back for quite a few months of being unpatched to find a genuine issue. Unless something about Amazon's mitigations don't apply universally.
[0] https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/ https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/
- lmz 10y agoAWS (and other large hosts: https://www.xenproject.org/security-policy.html https://www.xenproject.org/security-policy.html search for predisclosure) get notified before the public.
- exhilaration 10y agoAmazon and other big cloud providers get xen security fixes first, there was an HN discussion about it. Some they've probably already implemented the fix.