That's a good point actually - although when using dedicated hardware I usually have in my mind that everything is raw rather than abstracted by a hypervisor, s

That's a good point actually - although when using dedicated hardware I usually have in my mind that everything is raw rather than abstracted by a hypervisor, so this sort of thing should be more expected. With a public cloud you don't really know how it's set up on their end, as there are countless different ways to do it.