On Monday, Amazon wanted us to know that its staff worked day and night to avert planned reboots of cloud instances and updated a blog post to flag that information. But it… Read more »
Remember that planned Xen-related reboot Amazon Web Services warned about last week? Well, things went better than planned, according to an updated blog post Monday. The company said it was able to perform live updates… Read more »
The latest Xen hypervisor vulnerabilities are forcing IBM to reboot some customers’ cloud instances between now and March 10. The vendor sent out an alert to affected IBM SoftLayer customers on Friday, the same… Read more »
Amazon Web Services and Rackspace are warning their customers of upcoming reboots they’re taking to address a new Xen hypervisor security issue. In a premium support bulletin issued Thursday night, Amazon… Read more »
Late last year, the world got a good look at the challenges and pain associated with kernel maintenance required by cloud providers. A security vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor required immediate and… Read more »
Both companies said they’ve had to be cagey about the Xen vulnerability until now, but offered a bit more information about the patching process and — in Rackspace’s case — an… Read more »
IBM SoftLayer is addressing the same Xen hypervisor vulnerability that sparked reboots by Amazon Web Services and Rackspace — but it’s doing so days later. Read more »
… not that they’d admit it. Both cloud providers had to restart a bunch of customers’ workloads over the weekend. Live migration could have nipped that angst in the bud. Read more »
The week in cloud: Amazon Web Services and Rackspace both acknowledged that they needed to re-start a big chunk of their public cloud infrastructure due to a non-disclosed Xen issue. Read more »
On Wednesday night, AWS tolds its customers about a planned EC2 reboot due to what came to be known as a Xen issue; a full two days later, Rackspace does the… Read more »