AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

Wed Oct 1 18:01:37 UTC 2014

For those interested, this is the Xen bug they were fixing with the reboots
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-108.html

-Grant

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Reed Loden <reed at reedloden.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:39:39 -0400
> Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Rumor mill is that it's XSA-108, embargoed until 2014-10-01 12:00
> (http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/). Just somebody's guess, though, afaik.
>
> ~reed
>