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Google Compute Engine has live migration, so host/hypervisor updates (including security updates!) can be applied without taking VMs offline. AWS doesn't support live migration.

I don't work for AWS, so I can only speculate about their internal technology; but they've demonstrated an ability to apply security updates without requiring guests to reboot.



I believe in certain situations they've been able to use ksplice or similar mechanisms.




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