[patrickxb]

It would be nice if AWS could write something official about what they are doing.

I've been noticing major performance changes in our instances and have no idea if it is related to Meltdown or something else.

Google released a blog post specifically on performance: https://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/protecting-our-googl...

It would be nice to have similar transparency from AWS.

[bamboozled]

Same, I feel it's irresponsible not to provide more details about this issue.

[pathseeker]

Google likely only wrote a blog post about it because they were able to find a way to brag that there was effectively no performance hit. They have never written any blog posts IIRC explaining bad/unpredictable performance on GCE

[jacksmith21006]

Do they not deserve to brag about it? Heck they among others are who found the flaws as well as Broadpwn, Cloudbleed, Heartbleed among others and deserve credit for the work they have done, imo.

Think the constant ragging on Google that appears on HN is becoming a little too much.

[plandis]

It was Google who discovered the vulnerabilities in the first place. How long did they internally wait to give themselves and advantage before disclosing these? I'm honestly asking I don't know.

[__bjoernd]

That's still cool and worth bragging about.

[forgot-my-pw]

Amazon will probably earn more from autoscaling due to the slowdown.