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

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The 'logos' produced for the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws affecting CPUs from Intel, AMD and ARM
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The 'logos' produced for the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws affecting CPUs from Intel, AMD and ARM

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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