"For the attacks to work, the cloud hosting the VM must have deduplication enabled so that physical pages are shared between customers."
But the vendor's cloud will not disable sharing pages of physical memory because ____.
This is a great counterpoint to the salesman trying to sell you on "cloud" anything.
Why is it less expensive to use the "cloud"?
One reason is because you do not get your own physical server, including your own RAM.
When the "cloud" buzz began to gain momentum years ago I raised the issue of not knowing who your "neighbors" were on these physical servers that customers are sharing with other customers in datacenters.
As usual, these concerns will just fade into the background... again.
But the vendor's cloud will not disable sharing pages of physical memory because ____.
This is a great counterpoint to the salesman trying to sell you on "cloud" anything.
Why is it less expensive to use the "cloud"?
One reason is because you do not get your own physical server, including your own RAM.
When the "cloud" buzz began to gain momentum years ago I raised the issue of not knowing who your "neighbors" were on these physical servers that customers are sharing with other customers in datacenters.
As usual, these concerns will just fade into the background... again.