What you need to know from re:Invent – FPGAs-as-a-service and more At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today, Amazon Web Services tipped its hand to reveal its battle plan for invading new markets. The Jeff Bezos cash machine has kicked out a laundry list of new services and virtual machine instances for AI applications, databases, and software that requires specialized hardware …
Being able to spin up a pile of fast FPGAs with a lot of fast RAM when you need them? Sounds ideal for forgetful people who can't remember their keys / passwords / whatever, and can't afford the dedicated silicon that the 5 eyes chaps can.
Is there a countdown clock somewhere, which shows encryption bits against time-to-crack (or cost-to-crack), and will this lurch it forward a bit?
There are other regions as I'm quite sure are aware. Then again there's the question of who's tapping the cables in between and whether your encryption is cracked. That's generally 5 Eyes territory which happens to involve GCHQ et al.
"How secure is it going to be?"
Who cares?
It'll take 'em three weeks to figure out what you were doing.
Which, as it turns out, was automatically transcoding 47 TB of traditional Cambodian music .wav files into near-equivalent MIDI files. A very peculiar hobby you have there...
Keep the TLAs busy...
Point being, security from the Three Letter Agencies is a non-issue for almost everyone.
When doing anything on the 'cloud' or transmitting across the internet without using encryption between trusted endpoints, it's probably safe to assume you have at least a couple of intelligence agencies taking records.
The good news is that, unless you are either 1. A troublesome activist 2. An actual terrorist or 3. Involved in the most serious forms of organised crime, they aren't going to waste their time on you. Not because they have any sort of ethical restraint, just because they don't have the resources to investigate every petty pirate and pot-smoker they find.
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