Updating linux-headers-aws breaks ixgbevf - amazon-web-services

Question

When I attempt to update linux-headers-aws on my instance, it becomes unconnectable after restart. Diffing the AWS system log from the console, I found:
ixgbevf: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
Do I need to reinstall ixgbevf? Should I avoid updating in this manner?
Pre-update:
uname -a
Linux master 4.4.0-1022-aws #31-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 27 11:27:55 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
modinfo ixgbevf
modinfo ixgbevf filename:
/lib/modules/4.4.0-1022-aws/updates/dkms/ixgbevf.ko version:
3.1.2 license: GPL description: Intel(R) 10 Gigabit Virtual Function Network Driver author: Intel Corporation,
srcversion: BA90EAFD4DC7D0F8F47AB8D alias:
pci:v00008086d000015A8svsdbcsci* alias:
pci:v00008086d00001565svsdbcsci* alias:
pci:v00008086d00001515svsdbcsci* alias:
pci:v00008086d000010EDsvsdbcsci* depends: vermagic:
4.4.0-1022-aws SMP mod_unload modversions parm: InterruptThrottleRate:Maximum interrupts per second, per vector,
(956-488281, 0=off, 1=dynamic), default 1 (array of int)
ethtool -i ens3
driver: ixgbevf version: 3.1.2 firmware-version: N/A
expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:00:03.0 supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes supports-eeprom-access: no supports-register-dump:
yes supports-priv-flags: no

Answer 1

See this gist
First I created a backup AMI and unheld these packages:
sudo apt-mark unhold linux-aws
sudo apt-mark unhold linux-headers-aws
sudo apt-mark unhold linux-image-aws
sudo apt-mark unhold lxd
sudo apt-mark unhold lxd-client
Then updated:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-aws linux-image-aws
This ran successfully:
Setting up linux-headers-aws (4.4.0.1026.29) ...
Setting up linux-aws (4.4.0.1026.29) ...
Several attempts to reboot at this point rendered my AMI unconnectable with the error message in the system log documented in my question. So I re-downloaded ixgbevf according to the AWS documentation and re-installed, commenting out the version check line to allow compilation (#if UTS_UBUNTU_RELEASE_ABI > 255). This required that I first uninstall the existing ixgbevf-3.1.2 module:
sudo dkms remove ixgbevf/3.1.2 --all
sudo dkms add -m ixgbevf -v 3.1.2
sudo dkms build -m ixgbevf -v 3.1.2
sudo dkms install -m ixgbevf -v 3.1.2 --all
sudo update-initramfs -c -k all
sudo reboot
And I was then able to successfully connect.