Amazon Linux 2 - AshokBhat/notes GitHub Wiki

About

  • Linux distribution by AWS
  • Free, LTS support till June 30, 2023

Availablity

  • Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for use on Amazon EC2
  • Docker container image
  • Virtual machine image for use on KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware ESXi.
  • Can be used for on-premises development and testing.

LTS canidates

  • LTS Candidate 1 - Dec 13, 2017
  • LTS Candidate 2 - Apr 9, 2018

Components

  • GCC 7.3, Glibc 2.26, and Binutils 2.29.1
  • Linux kernel 4.19

See also