I, as well as many others, received today an email from Amazon about the need to reboot one of my instances. Actually, Twitter was already aware of this and was a bit upset of the need. For me, this was the second time since 2009 when Amazon has asked to reboot one of my instances. Once the HW was degraded and now this. I would say it’s quite a decent score since I have averaged something like five instances running all the time.
I am not upset, on the contrary I am happy AWS keeping the infrastructure up to date, be the reason for the reboot what ever. Besides, the systems should be designed so, that rebooting an instance should not take the service down, if you don’t accept it (like I do).
The actual process how AWS did inform the customers did feel ok. At first it was of course just rumours, but then I received an email stating the need which gave an acceptable time to react. When I logged in to the AWS Dashboard, I saw this kind of a message:
Which had a link to further information:
And even more information:
There was an option to do the reboot right now if I wanted, so I did it. At first after the reboot, I was looking at the instance in the dashboard, but the notification icon was still there. I would have thought it would disappear. Then I had a look of the details of the event and it actually had [Completed] written infront of the event:
Which now probably means it’s ok and I am done with this.
Tags: AWS reboots
