<story><title>EC2 Maintenance Update II</title><url>http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-maintenance-update-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theonewolf</author><text>@jeffbarr I just wanted to say thanks for not only posting this, but also sticking around in the comments section.  Makes you + Amazon seem way more human :-)&lt;p&gt;Also, in case you have any &amp;quot;cloud servers&amp;quot; you want to decommission: &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8373394&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=8373394&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>EC2 Maintenance Update II</title><url>http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-maintenance-update-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>freshflowers</author><text>&amp;quot;Pay attention to your Inbox and to the alerts on the AWS Management Console.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Especially with incidents like these (and other cases where instances are scheduled to be taken down), it really annoys me that AWS doesn&amp;#x27;t offer any push alerts besides emailing the account owner.</text></comment>