EC2 Dedicated Hosts

Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by detaro on Monday November 23, 2015 @08:09PM (#10618525)

Amazon offers billing by the hour for those, meaning they probably move between customers a lot more than traditional dedicated servers. A bare-metal user can do lot of bad things unless you trust your hardware manufacturing 100 %, e.g. by messing with the firmware.

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Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by toomuchtodo on Monday November 23, 2015 @08:22PM (#10618557)

At the hardware purchasing level Amazon operates with for AWS hardware, I'm sure they're able to (if they required it) spec custom BIOS requirements that perform integrity verification of subsystems before permitting power up to continue. Whether they do or not is a different question (although I'm sure someone could test this theory).

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Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by wtallis on Monday November 23, 2015 @08:53PM (#10618674)

They could also just spec that firmware be stored on ROM rather than flash.

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Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by tehmaco on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @03:55AM (#10619799)

Or that a hardware jumper needs to be set on the motherboard before any firmware updates can be done.

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Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by luhn on Monday November 23, 2015 @09:11PM (#10618737)

Rackspace offers a cloud cum bare metal service called OnMetal. They flash the firmware before putting a new user on a machine.

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