Amazon Linux
AWS's own distro for EC2 and containers, tuned for its cloud and supported at no extra cost. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- Amazon Web Services
- Created by
- —
- First release
- 2011
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://aws.amazon.com/linux/amazon-linux-2023
- Family
- Red Hat / Fedora
- Based on
- Fedora (Amazon Linux 2023)
- Package manager
- DNF
- Package format
- rpm
- Release model
- Fixed releases
- Release cadence
- Quarterly updates, versioned repositories
- Support lifetime
- 5 years per major (2023 until 2029)
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- None
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Cloud, Containers, Server
- Backed by
- A company
- Beginner friendliness
- 3 of 5
- Architectures
- x86_64, aarch64