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by colonelpopcorn 1279 days ago
That's an interesting idea. I imagine they don't do DoD wipes of their disks because they are probably multi-tenant, right? Can a guest operating system do forensic analysis on the host disk?
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AWS wipes disks before reusing them (loosely speaking--an EBS volume doesn't correspond 1:1 to a physical disk). Forensic analysis of overwritten data requires disassembling the physical disk, so no, it's not possible.