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Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot
From: Reed Loden <reed () reedloden com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:41:38 -0700
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:39:39 -0400 Peter Beckman <beckman () 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
Current thread:
- AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Grant Ridder (Sep 24)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Gabriel Blanchard (Sep 24)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Peter Kristolaitis (Sep 24)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Grant Ridder (Sep 24)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Javier J (Sep 24)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Peter Beckman (Sep 24)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Reed Loden (Sep 24)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Jimmy Hess (Sep 24)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Gabriel Blanchard (Sep 24)