You're correct on your findings. m1.small, paravirtual guest.
I'm in the process of migrating my company's servers from 12.04 to 14.04. It was during this migration that I realized I was seeing syslog-ng logs for October 2014 or later (ie months into the future) on the new 14.04 instances, and I've been seeing it intermittently when launching new instances. Not always, but on some launches, or on some reboots. I think it's either some some sort of race condition, or related to what Amazon hardware the instance is actually spun up on.
You're correct on your findings. m1.small, paravirtual guest.
I'm in the process of migrating my company's servers from 12.04 to 14.04. It was during this migration that I realized I was seeing syslog-ng logs for October 2014 or later (ie months into the future) on the new 14.04 instances, and I've been seeing it intermittently when launching new instances. Not always, but on some launches, or on some reboots. I think it's either some some sort of race condition, or related to what Amazon hardware the instance is actually spun up on.