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0 pointsstatic_noise8y ago0 comments

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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thesandlord8y 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.

untog8y ago

The short term answer is to patch the servers and swallow the 30% performance cut. Still likely cheaper than dedicated servers.

djsumdog8y ago

Which 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.

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