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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:Compared to Azure by CodeReign · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You are actually required to program your application to expect failed database calls.

    Yes, of course you are. Only an idiot would expect 100% of db calls to be successful.