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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by static_noise on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:50PM (#16066156)
This basically kills cloud computing for anything sensitive using shared hardware. In the short term this will actually be good for cloud providers because the demand for dedicated instances will shoot up as there is no short-term alternative.
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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by thesandlord on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:36PM (#16066558)
> The infrastructure that runs Compute Engine and isolates customer workloads from each other is protected against known attacks. This also means that customer VMs are protected against known, infrastructure-based attacks from other malicious VMs.
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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by untog on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:31PM (#16066514)
The short term answer is to patch the servers and swallow the 30% performance cut. Still likely cheaper than dedicated servers.
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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by djsumdog on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:15AM (#16068422)
Which could mean huge sales for Intel, or even AMD, if Amazon, DigitalOcean, Linode and others want to rush to get that lost performance back.

Going to AMD would be incredibly expensive as you'd be replacing nearly everything, but if Intel gets new chips out in a reasonable amount of time, they might actually make a killing on this.

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