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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by joncrane on Monday January 01, 2018 @12:02PM (#16046811)
If true, this is pretty huge. As if the AWS "You blew through your budget" emails right around midnight of New Years were only an appetizer.

Edit: AWS Spurious Budget Email Barrage: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/7ndvli/anybody_get_spu...

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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by Waterluvian on Monday January 01, 2018 @01:40PM (#16047317)
Oh so that's not just me?

I had a lingering account that cost me 3 cents a month. All of a sudden I get an email freaking out about all these alarm thresholds I'm blowing past. I just outright closed my entire account because trying to delete the offending S3 entities would fail without an error message.

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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by ProAm on Monday January 01, 2018 @12:04PM (#16046827)
I missed what happened with AWS? Any details
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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by SimonKinds on Monday January 01, 2018 @12:12PM (#16046870)
I'm assuming the person you replied to is referencing emails that AWS sent out on New Year's, stating incorrect forecasted usage.

Some discussion can be found on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7ndlk7/aws_anyone...

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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by jerrysievert on Monday January 01, 2018 @12:12PM (#16046874)
not sure on exact details, but I received one as well, on a free-tier account I had sitting around with an empty dynamodb table that was showing very high projected usage. it was enough that I logged in immediately thinking that account had been hacked.

nope, still empty table, deleted it and went to bed. glad I wasn't the only one who got that.

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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by dghughes on Monday January 01, 2018 @01:28PM (#16047253)
Same here. Mine was on standby so I terminated it.

I wasn't sure what was going on so I nuked everything cancelled my account and will hope for the best.

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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by dghughes on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:35PM (#16065426)
Amazon sent me an email this morning (Jan 3, 2018) to say I have a bill but I had already cancelled my free account. I can't see what I owe (hopefully zero dollars) because my account is now non-existent.

One tiny Ubuntu instance I barely used and then put on standby. Then terminated.

Ugh :(

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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by lscotte on Monday January 01, 2018 @03:12PM (#16047781)
Same for me, a dynamodb table I created 5 years ago with one k/v pair (test=foo) and never accessed since...
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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by grepthisab on Monday January 01, 2018 @12:16PM (#16046895)
I got an email that I was going to go over usage, and then another minutes later that I was over. Logged in, only had a lambda sitting doing nothing.
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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by michaelmwangi on Monday January 01, 2018 @12:07PM (#16046838)
Haha got the emails too
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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by pc86 on Monday January 08, 2018 @08:02AM (#16096397)
haha
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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by dingo_bat on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @02:59AM (#16050565)
Oh shit! I thought it was just a bug in my setup! Should have searched around before disabling everything in a panic.
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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by shrewduser on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:32PM (#16055333)
do you think maybe someone used the exploit to mine coins? no probably not someone would have noticed surely.
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