> Would you rather stop/start your instance and risk a capacity error or have your impacted instances rebooted in 48 hours?
Is there that little slack in Amazon's compute capacity? I would hope not! If there isn't capacity to start my instance back up, I would hope that hitting Stop would generate a dialog to the effect of "Hey there, you won't be able to start this instance back up if you stop it right now."
> Is there that little slack in Amazon's compute capacity?
I'm sure there's plenty of "slack" under most circumstances. However this affects the majority of users so all of them setting up new instances at the same time would likely be impossible.
For the scale of this reboot, they'd have to maintain 30-50% extra capacity which would likely be financially impossible at those rates.
Amazon markets their cloud infrastructure as having the ability to scale up at a moment's notice. If they don't have excess capacity, where am I going to scale to? Back to a colo environment?
Is there that little slack in Amazon's compute capacity? I would hope not! If there isn't capacity to start my instance back up, I would hope that hitting Stop would generate a dialog to the effect of "Hey there, you won't be able to start this instance back up if you stop it right now."