If VMs are running on hardware Gridspot doesn't control, and if the filesystem isn't encrypted, how is my data secured?
At $0.002 per hour I'm actually OK with zero security, but it will limit the types of jobs that I'll use Gridspot for.
At $0.002 per hour I'm actually OK with zero security, but it will limit the types of jobs that I'll use Gridspot for.
> Gridspot is perfect for jobs that:
> • ...
> • Aren't privacy sensitive
It’s not exactly replacement for EC2, but there’s a lot of applications that would fit Gridspot just fine.
But I guess one has to be much more aware of all the security issues when writing for a platform like this. The Gridspot folks should perhaps consider creating solid list of best-practice guidelines.
Now can someone also create Gridspot for storage? :)
Some recent research [1] has shown that it's theoretically possible to delegate the ability to process your data, without giving away access to it. But from what I remember, in practice the computation becomes orders of magnitude slower than on the unencrypted counterpart.