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This basically kills cloud computing for anything sensitive using shared hardware. In the short term this will actually be good for cloud providers because the
by static_noise 9y ago
This basically kills cloud computing for anything sensitive using shared hardware. In the short term this will actually be good for cloud providers because the demand for dedicated instances will shoot up as there is no short-term alternative.
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- untog 9y agoThe short term answer is to patch the servers and swallow the 30% performance cut. Still likely cheaper than dedicated servers.
- djsumdog 9y agoWhich could mean huge sales for Intel, or even AMD, if Amazon, DigitalOcean, Linode and others want to rush to get that lost performance back. Going to AMD would be incredibly expensive as you'd be replacing nearly everything, but if Intel gets new chips out in a reasonable amount of time, they might actually make a killing on this.
- thesandlord 9y ago> The infrastructure that runs Compute Engine and isolates customer workloads from each other is protected against known attacks. This also means that customer VMs are protected against known, infrastructure-based attacks from other malicious VMs.