Amazon Linux 2023 Reaches GA, Built Atop Fedora

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Amazon Linux 2023 Reaches GA, Built Atop Fedora

AWS released Amazon Linux 2023 "AL2023" as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution that is available to Amazon EC2 customers...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Amazon-Linux-2023

[jorgepl]

It'd be really nice if they provided an ISO for us to use in our home servers.

[NotMine999]

It'd be really nice if they provided an ISO for us to use in our home servers.

I guess Amazon's intent is to drive customer usage of Amazon Services...and that brings revenue to Amazon.

Said another way...

Would you pay to download the ISO image from Amazon?

[r1348]

It'd be really nice if they provided an ISO for us to use in our home servers.

You wouldn't have any use for it anyway, AL is meant to be run on Nitro-enabled AWS instances that use dedicated hardware and a custom deployment system, there's no ISO internally in AWS as well.

[CommunityMember]

It'd be really nice if they provided an ISO for us to use in our home servers.

Amazon has historically provided vm images (in various formats for various virtualization platforms) for their previous Amazon Linux 2 distro for on-premise use (you create a seed file for cloud init to configure the resulting system setting passwords, etc.). Amazon has stated that they intend to do the same for AL2023, although it does not appear to be live quite yet. For that matter, they have not yet made available a lightsail instance type which is eventually expected.

[Mahboi]

Eerie, I just had to make an AWS account to build something for a client.
On a Windows image.
Fate is toying with me.

[ayumu]

XFS as root fs is a significant change.