A Cat with an MBA: How AMD QoS Features Enable Side Channels on SEV-SNP

Foreword This blog post is a summarized and introductory write up of our paper recently accepted at ESORICS 2026 to be presented in Rome, Italy between September 14-16, 2026: &ldquo;A Systematic Look at Quality-of-Service Feature Effects on Side Channels in AMD SEV-SNP&rdquo;. Not all the scientific details are mentioned in this blog post. If you&rsquo;re interested, there&rsquo;s a full paper…