My understanding is that Amazon was built on VMware. If I understand correctly, the guy that was responsible for the AWS infrastructure team (archirecture and implementation) went to work for VMware and was over the team who built vCloud Air (formerly vCHS).
Jonathan Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Sean Martin Date:05/14/2015 5:44 PM (GMT-05:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] I believe we have only seen the very beginning of this problem. Doesn't Amazon use Xen? - Sean On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Ed Ziots <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: What is.even juicer.is<http://juicer.is> the abuse of.the contenancy in the cloud. So exploit a bm upload.to.the cloud.if.they.are using kvm or xen u.get complete.host.access. If.it affected vmware that would.have been more.devastating Ed On May 14, 2015 1:14 PM, "Kurt Buff" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Several major cloud/*aaS vendors are affected by this... http://www.computerworld.com/article/2922119/security/critical-vm-escape-flaw-could-put-business-data-at-risk.html http://www.csoonline.com/article/2921589/application-security/significant-virtual-machine-vulnerability-has-been-hiding-in-floppy-disk-code-for-11-years.html I'm guessing that there will be more breaks like this in the near-ish future Kurt
