Cloud providers all have some downtime for maintenance issues, but the scale of AWS' reboot — presumably over a flaw in the open source hypervisor Xen — has a lot of customers worried about ...

Amazon has not said why the reboot is happening, but AWS watchers believe it is to patch a security issue. The company will be updating many of its servers between Thursday, Sept. 25 at 10 PM ET ...

Last year a security flaw in the Xen hypervisor meant that a number of cloud vendors had to reboot customers' servers ... out with a statistic from its own AWS spread. CEO Michael Crandell said ...

Meanwhile, others have commended AWS for forcing a reboot at the expense of some downtime rather than allowing instances to continue running insecurely. Responding to downtime concerns ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided more details on a major Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance reboot that’s set to take place in the coming days, and the good news is it doesn’t have ...

The company privately e-mailed affected customers on Wednesday, and gave more details about the reboot in a blog post Thursday. AWS describes the planned reboot as a "timely security and operational ...

AWS sent e-mails to Amazon EC2 customers this week notifying them of the reboot, which was necessary "in order to receive some patch updates." The cloud giant said the majority of reboots would ...

Amazon Web Services customers this week are worrying about a server reboot the provider ... which runs its streaming video service on AWS, opted to reboot on its own schedule, Adrian Cockcroft ...