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Re:EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware by sseveran on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @09:59AM (#15807219)
You have the whole machine. There are no other colocated VMs.
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Re:EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware by mugsie on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @10:14AM (#15807352)
that is the issue.

You have full access to the machine, so you can update firmware / tinker with BIOS etc.

Then let the machine go back into the pool, and wait for it dial home.

There is some mitigation, but this is a major reason a lot of vendors do not do per second / minute bare metal.

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Re:EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware by _msw_ on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @10:44AM (#15807633)
You cannot update firmware / tinker with BIOS etc. I will cover this in a breakout session at re:Invent today: https://www.portal.reinvent.awsevents.com/connect/search.ww#...
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Re:EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware by mugsie on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @11:08AM (#15807864)
Cool - I would be interested in seeing how that mitigation was done.

Is this going to be available online afterwards, or is it just an in person breakout?

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