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Amazon Forced To Reboot EC2 To Patch Bug In Xen

Posted by timothy on from the failure-to-achieve-xen dept.

Bismillah writes AWS is currently emailing EC2 customers that it will need to reboot their instances for maintenance over the next few days. The email doesn't explain why the reboots are being done, but it is most likely to patch for the embargoed XSA-108 bug in Xen. ZDNet takes this as a spur to remind everyone that the cloud is not magical. Also at The Register.

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  1. email from ec2... by rjamestaylor · · Score: 1, Funny

    "we will be re-booting the cloud today,,,in order to protect your 3,2 petabytes of data, you should download it to local storage in case of a fail event. thanks for using cloud storage on computing. have a great day."

    That this inane post is moderated as "3, Insightful" is why I do not visit /. anymore.

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    -- @rjamestaylor on Ello