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Rezo on Sept 2, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: New cloud attack takes full control of virtual mac...

The EC2 FAQ [0] states:

"In our experience, ECC memory is necessary for server infrastructure, and all the hardware underlying Amazon EC2 uses ECC memory."

While ECC does apparently not completely mitigate Rowhammer, it helps.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/

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