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Re:AWS Device Farm adds support for iOS by NateLawson on Thursday August 06, 2015 @01:27AM (#10014701)
More importantly, what do they do to keep users from jailbreaking the device via software? Especially with Android, there are a lot of software root flaws and the privileged surface area is a lot bigger than the hypervisor AWS uses for EC2.

The summary makes it sound like they only wipe your app from the device, not reinstall the OS between users.

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Re:AWS Device Farm adds support for iOS by jakozaur on Thursday August 06, 2015 @04:55AM (#10015320)
I believe it doesn't matter for 95%+ of users.

EC2 is used to run production services with sensitive data.

Most Android/iOS testing is done with made up data, without privileged access to production. So even if it get compromised, it probably not much different from installing an app on jailbreaked device be end user.

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