This isn't a direct answer, but for others who are coming to this page and need help on where to start, here is some info on what to do now from RightScale's CT

This isn't a direct answer, but for others who are coming to this page and need help on where to start, here is some info on what to do now from RightScale's CTO, it also has a little comparison to what happened in Dec 2011 reboot too (just an interesting side note): http://www.rightscale.com/blog/rightscale-news/aws-reboot-substantial-number-ec2-instances http://www.rightscale.com/blog/rightscale-news/aws-reboot-su...