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It is the case for VMs that customers create.

It hasn't always been the case for manged services, but I don't think that's true for AWS either.




Unmanaged VM's created directly by customers still aren't relevant to this discussion. The whole point here is that everyone else uses some form of hardware assisted isolation between tenants, even in managed services that vend containers or other higher order compute primitives (i.e. Lambda, Cloud Functions, and hosted notebooks/shells).

Between first and second hand experience I can confidently say that, at a bare minimum, the majority of managed services at AWS, GCP, and even OCI use VM's to isolate tenant workloads. Not sure about OCI, but at least in GCP and AWS, security teams that review your service will assume that customers will break out of containers no matter how the container capabilities/permissions/configs are locked down.




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