Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

2014-10-01 Thread Jared Mauch
> On Oct 1, 2014, at 4:59 PM, Todd Underwood wrote: > > this is kind of incident handling 101 and shouldn't be surprising to anyone. There’s always people who feel “left out of the loop” when these things occur. I’ve found there’s no one location for centralized data after many years of doing

Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

2014-10-01 Thread Jeff Fisher
On 10/01/2014 02:59 PM, Todd Underwood wrote: read: http://www.xenproject.org/security-policy.html they have a sensible, commonly used security policy that involves private notification to large customers in advance where it is practical and there is not evidence of ongoing exploits in the wild

Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

2014-10-01 Thread Todd Underwood
read: http://www.xenproject.org/security-policy.html they have a sensible, commonly used security policy that involves private notification to large customers in advance where it is practical and there is not evidence of ongoing exploits in the wild. this is kind of incident handling 101 and sho

Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

2014-10-01 Thread Bryan Fullerton
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 attenti

Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

2014-10-01 Thread Matt Palmer
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* disc

Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

2014-10-01 Thread Grant Ridder
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 wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:39:39 -0400 > Peter Beckman wrote: > > > Likely some sort of potentially serious bug or fl

Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

2014-09-24 Thread Reed Loden
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:39:39 -0400 Peter Beckman 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 or

Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

2014-09-24 Thread Peter Beckman
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 saf

Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

2014-09-24 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Grant Ridder wrote: > Doubt it since a bash patch shouldn't require a reboot Unless you have a long-running bash script in the background providing a vital system service, and that service is so important in your environment that you might as well reboot rather t

Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

2014-09-24 Thread Javier J
Just got the same email. Not just US. Servers in Sydney we have also. Why such short notice? On Sep 24, 2014 4:58 PM, "Grant Ridder" wrote: > Doubt it since a bash patch shouldn't require a reboot > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Gabriel Blanchard > wrote: > > > Bash related? > > > > > On Se

Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

2014-09-24 Thread Grant Ridder
Doubt it since a bash patch shouldn't require a reboot On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Gabriel Blanchard wrote: > Bash related? > > > On Sep 24, 2014, at 4:47 PM, "Grant Ridder" > wrote: > > > > As an FYI, it looks like Amazon is doing a mass reboot of the physical > > hosts in us-west-2 acro

Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

2014-09-24 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
Likely not, since it's affecting Windows instances as well. Also not just us-west-2 -- we have tons of instances scheduled for downtime in us-east-1 and eu-west-1 as well. -Peter On 09/24/2014 04:51 PM, Gabriel Blanchard wrote: Bash related? On Sep 24, 2014, at 4:47 PM, "Grant Ridder" wr

Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

2014-09-24 Thread Gabriel Blanchard
Bash related? > On Sep 24, 2014, at 4:47 PM, "Grant Ridder" wrote: > > As an FYI, it looks like Amazon is doing a mass reboot of the physical > hosts in us-west-2 across all AZ's and it is scheduled to start tomorrow > and take a couple days. > Go to *https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?

AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

2014-09-24 Thread Grant Ridder
As an FYI, it looks like Amazon is doing a mass reboot of the physical hosts in us-west-2 across all AZ's and it is scheduled to start tomorrow and take a couple days. Go to *https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-west-2#Events