Amazon EC2 instances under fire from whoAMI attacks potentially giving hackers code execution access

A flaw named WhoAMI was found in Amazon Machine ImageIt allows threat actors to gain RCE abilities on people's AWS accountsA fix has been released, but many users are still…

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Get one week of access to one of the world’s fastest computers ever for $0, you just need to fill out a form but there’s (of course) a catch

Gigabyte G383 R80 supercomputer costs $304,207Distributors and users without a clear project are not eligibleGet up to two weeks free trial via emailGigabyte, through its subsidiary Giga Computing, is offering…

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Amazon wants to rent you a 32-core virtual workstation in the cloud for $4.40 per hour and yes, you’d still need to have a thin client to access it

GeneralPurpose.8xlarge delivers 32 virtual cores and 128GB memory plus 275GB storage This is far cheaper than Azure or Google Cloud, but more expensive than onprem if you plan to keep…

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