AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

Wed Oct 1 20:38:38 UTC 2014

On 01/10/2014 4:29 PM, Matt Palmer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 11:01:37AM -0700, Grant Ridder wrote:
>> For those interested, this is the Xen bug they were fixing with the reboots
>> http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-108.html
> Ouch.  Good thing Bashpocalypse is still capturing everyone's attention...
>
> Interestingly, Amazon *didn't* discover this bug, which makes one wonder why
> they, out of all the big Xen-based providers out there, got a heads-up in
> advance of the embargo end.  If I was a big provider who didn't get advance
> notice, I'd be somewhat miffed.

Rackspace did reboots over the weekend for this as well - 
http://www.rackspace.com/blog/an-apology/

Bryan

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