Google and Amazon say the performance hit from the 'Meltdown' and 'Spectre' fixes is overblown (MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, GOOGL)

Techies are going crazy after "Meltdown" and "Spectre," two new methods for stealing data from seemingly-secure computers, were revealed by Google on Wednesday.
One worry was that the fix for the problems could come with a major negative impact on performance. 
Google and Amazon say they're not seeing any major slowdowns. 
On Wednesday, Google revealed that there's a big security hole in pretty much every processor, including the one in your phone, the one in your laptop, and the proce