Amazon Web Services to Reboot 10% of Infrastructure Due to Xen Security Advisory
One or more of your Amazon EC2 instances are scheduled to be rebooted for required host maintenance in order to deploy important updates. These updates must be completed by 3/10 before the underlying issues we are addressing are made public as part of an upcoming Xen Security Advisory (XSA). Following security best practices, the details behind these issues will be withheld until then. Security and operational excellence are our top priorities, and therefore we occasionally need to do host maintenance on short notice. We have built the capability to live-update the vast majority of our fleet, however we have not yet enabled this capability on some of our older hardware. Fewer than 10% of EC2 customer instances will need to be rebooted in order to receive this update.
=== Just so happens that my business' entire infrastructure on AWS (19 servers) falls in that 10%....