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Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot
From: Peter Beckman <beckman () angryox com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:39:39 -0400
Likely some sort of potentially serious bug or flaw in EC2 or Xen. AWS Security is really on the ball on such things and do everything they can to make invisible fixes with no customer impact, but sometimes a reboot is required in order to apply the changes necessary to keep customer instances safe from attacks and vulnerabilities. Another possibility: getting rid of older hardware. A reboot will keep you in the same class of service but may move you to a new physical machine. Unlikely though at this reported scale. Same thing happened in December 2011 [1]. Beckman [1] http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/232300111/widespread-amazon-ec2-cloud-instance-reboots-spark-questions-concerns.htm On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Javier J wrote:
Just got the same email. Not just US. Servers in Sydney we have also. Why such short notice? On Sep 24, 2014 4:58 PM, "Grant Ridder" <shortdudey123 () gmail com> wrote:Doubt it since a bash patch shouldn't require a reboot On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Gabriel Blanchard <gabe () teksavvy ca> wrote:Bash related?On Sep 24, 2014, at 4:47 PM, "Grant Ridder" <shortdudey123 () gmail com>wrote:As an FYI, it looks like Amazon is doing a mass reboot of the physical hosts in us-west-2 across all AZ's and it is scheduled to starttomorrowand take a couple days. Go to *https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-west-2#Events<https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-west-2#Events>:*tosee what instances are affected when. -Grant
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- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Peter Kristolaitis (Sep 24)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Grant Ridder (Sep 24)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Javier J (Sep 24)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Peter Beckman (Sep 24)
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- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Jimmy Hess (Sep 24)
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