Meltdown patch made AWS CPUs work 25 per cent harder, claims SolarWinds

Nicholas Fearn
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Meltdown patch AWS performance issues chronicled by software vendor SolarWinds

Solarwinds, the infrastructure management software supplier, has chronicled the effect that the implementation of Intel's patch for the Meltdown security flaw had on its cloud operations. Its so...

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