AWS, Google, and Microsoft promise their clouds are mostly protected from processor flaw

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, and other cloud providers are informing customers that they may face downtime and performance degradation as the result of a rushed effort to patch critical bugs present in many computer processors.
The bugs, known as Spectre and Meltdown, were revealed today following a report from The Register. They’re caused by issues in microprocessor design that could potentially allow malicious code to read the contents of a computer’s kernel memory. Thes