They answer the second question quite clearly in my opinion:
It requires only brief one-time physical access, which is realistic in cloud environments, considering, for instance:
* Rogue cloud employees;
* Datacenter technicians or cleaning personnel;
* Coercive local law enforcement agencies;
* Supply chain tampering during shipping or manufacturing of the memory modules.
This reads as "yes". (You may disagree, but _their_ answer is "yes.")Consider also "Room 641A" [1]: the NSA has asked big companies to install special hardware on their premises for wiretapping. This work is at least proof that a similar request could be made to intercept confidential compute environments.