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Re:EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware by RKearney on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @07:26AM (#15806255)
The E5-2686 v4 doesn’t have IME.
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Re:EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware by userbinator on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @07:51AM (#15806367)
The CPU itself doesn't, but the chipset does.

Amazon is a big enough customer that it wouldn't surprise me if they could get Intel to make special ME firmware with the features they want in it.

...which also means the ME exploits discussed recently here could lead to a whole lot more fun... ;-)

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