[cbisnett]

Out of curiosity I went to look at the pricing for Amazon’s CloudHSM service for AWS and nearly spit out my drink. $5,000 up front cost per device and $1.88/hr and they suggest running two for high availability. At those prices I don’t think you’ll see this catch on anytime soon.

[jlgaddis]

I bought a "real" HSM off of eBay (used, of course) a couple weeks ago but, unfortunately, it's apparently broken and so I need to return it. The price of these things is huuuuuge and that puts them out of reach to all but large companies. I think that Amazon is trying to solve that problem but, yeah, if I had that much to spend I would just buy a couple outright (they'd pay for themselves in a few months, compared to CloudHSM).