Amazon Linux
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Section titled “Concept”Amazon Linux is AWS’s own Linux operating system, specially tuned to run on AWS. AWS provides regular security updates and long-term support for it. Its current main version is Amazon Linux 2023. Ready-made images (AMIs) of it are available for EC2, and it can also be used as a base image for containers. It comes with the packages needed to work with AWS tools and services already set up.
Simple example
Section titled “Simple example”A car company’s own engine oil — the car runs on other oils too, but this one is made for exactly that car.
Why it’s needed
Section titled “Why it’s needed”It works well with AWS, AWS itself provides the security updates, and there is no separate license cost.
Where it’s used
Section titled “Where it’s used”EC2 servers, container images, and the environment inside Lambda.
Azure equivalent
Section titled “Azure equivalent”No direct match; Azure uses Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and RHEL
Learn more
Section titled “Learn more”For details and the latest information, see the official documentation: