Amazon Web Services has started urgently rebooting Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in all its regions, after an unknown bug was discovered in the open-source Xen virtualisation platform used by the company. The cloud giant emailed EC2 customers today to warn about the reboot, which it called "required host maintenance". "One or more of your Amazon EC2 instances are scheduled to be rebooted f
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