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		pjungwir on Oct 1, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XSA-108 Advisory I had "dedicated" AWS instances that were rebooted. A dedicated instance means there is only one guest per box, right? So I'm curious why those had to be rebooted if there is no network-facing vector to this vulnerability. I guess because we could have read from the hypervisor's memory?

hoov on Oct 1, 2014 [–]

I believe that "dedicated" means that it's dedicated to your account. So, there can be more than one guest, but those guests are your EC2 instances.

pjungwir on Oct 1, 2014 | [–]

Ah, thanks for the clarification! I guess that still means they were rebooting our machines in case the malicious actor was us. :-)

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