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Amazon had just recently or was about to release S3, so cloud computing wasn't as much of a thing back then. The oh shit factor of today is because now business
by dclusin 6y ago
Amazon had just recently or was about to release S3, so cloud computing wasn't as much of a thing back then. The oh shit factor of today is because now business that have absolutely no relation to each other are now sharing CPU cores.
- radus 6y agoShared hosting has been a thing for a lot longer though. Wouldn't that have been exposed to the same set of vulnerabilities though? I suppose there were lower hanging fruit to exploit though.
- rodgerd 6y agoIn 2005 if your bank rocked up to their regulator explaining that they wanted shared hosting of their financial systems on commodity hosting providers they would have been told to reconsider or lose their banking license. Now it's carte-blanche to have core financial systems on Amazon, running alongside EC2 instances purchased with stolen credit cards by folks in non-extradition countries.