During the maintenance window we are going to deploy the mitigation fixes that address the Meltdown AND Spectre known vulnerabilities.
No impact expected on running instances.
FRA1 Meltdown / Spectre vulnerabilities mitigation fixes deployment
The maintenance has been completed.
Customers are required to install the latest updates for their operating system / distributions. Currently not all operating systems / distributions have all the required fixes available, notably for Spectre vulnerabilities.
A stop / start (not a reboot) is required for the fix to be effective.
Under Linux the following tool may be used to test the operating system vulnerabilities coverage:
https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker
The maintenance has started.