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Re:Intel Finds Bug in AMD's Spectre Mitigation – AMD Issues Fix by landemva on Saturday March 12, 2022 @03:22PM (#30654564)
That works on bare metal you control. If you rent something with VM / hypervisor the mitigations are important to protect from other VMs on the machine.
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Re:Intel Finds Bug in AMD's Spectre Mitigation – AMD Issues Fix by waych on Saturday March 12, 2022 @03:39PM (#30654686)
Mitigation between VMs is only effective when done from the hypervisor. Mitigations within a VM can only counter intra VM data leaks.
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