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Cloud doesn't have to mean virtualised and shared. There are plenty of operations that run on dedicated hardware.
by zigzigzag 10y ago
Cloud doesn't have to mean virtualised and shared. There are plenty of operations that run on dedicated hardware.
- bonzini 10y agoFor many cloud vendors, including EC2, "dedicated hardware" just means yours will be the only virtual machine on that computer. But they're still running your image under a hypervisor.
- zigzigzag 9y agoYes but if you're worried about attacks from co-tenants, that's OK (the cloud provider can always access your hardware anyway)
- bonzini 9y agoIt would still be a pain for cloud providers if the tenant can unwillingly DoS the hypervisor. Sure they have watchdogs in place, but it gets more complicated if the DoS can be non-malicious.
- __david__ 10y agoI suspect Amazon (for instance) has far more shared machines than dedicated machines. If something isn't viable for shared machines then a huge section of the market is ripped away. Still seems catastrophic to me.