On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Derek Balling <dr...@megacity.org> wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2014, at 7:22 AM, Sean Lally <sean.la...@crownpeak.com> wrote:
>
> Haven't seen that, but they are doing a bunch of scheduled reboots that
> started yesterday.  Guessing they're patching for bash...
>
>
> The reboots started before bash. The current running-theory is there's a bug
> in Xen that allows a guest to pierce the hypervisor and get outside.

I would say this is confirmed by this Amazon AWS blog post:

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-maintenance-update/

They apparently have an Oct. 1st deadline before the bug is made public.

Bill Bogstad
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