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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. Re:Sort of off topic by hawguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I saw in the Mpls Star Tribune the other day that Amazon are going to start charging (MN residents) sales tax as from 1st October.

    I don't know if this will apply to digital content as well but if it does then I will have to cut back on buying books, magazines, and music from them as well.

    The only stuff we will be able to buy is clothes...

    If Amazon is collecting sales tax, it means that you were supposed to have already been paying the sales tax, and you're practicing tax evasion if you haven't paying sales or use tax on your purchases.

    http://www.revenue.state.mn.us...