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Both AWS and GCP offer the ability to schedule VMs onto isolated machines: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hos
by jmillikin 4y ago
Both AWS and GCP offer the ability to schedule VMs onto isolated machines:
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenant-nodes https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenant-node...
The AWS offering is pretty much turn-key. I've not used the GCP version, but it seems to be similar if you're willing to create a separate "project" for each security domain.
Once your company has any PII and/or has regulatory obligations (PCI, HIPAA, etc) then it's worth spending a bit extra to make sure sensitive components are running on their own hardware.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoUsually you have to buy the whole host when you do that, and there are many ways to buy the whole machine. I personally think baremetal is a better trade - Amazon insiders have a harder time spying on you if you do that, while they can still pause your dedicated VM to take a peek at what's going on. Regardless, I have seen authentication systems and other sensitive things run on multi-tenant machines.