[Ysraes]

> I think this illustrates the cloud is unacceptable for anything more than storage and retrieval.

You can run in dedicated tenancy where you have the whole machine or a metal configuration where you also have the whole machine.

[frankzinger]

That would ruin providers' user:hardware ratios, one of the foundational principals of cloud computing.

[Terretta]

On the contrary, certain CSPs did this already (quietly) and further, had already developed hardware mitigations for things like meltdown, spectre and rowhammer.

[frankzinger]

But did they manage to keep their prices low?

(And those who employed hardware mitigations wouldn't have a problem with user:hardware ratios, would they?)