This is a minimal installation of Centos 7.9.2009 HVM
The AMI includes the minimal packages need to run on AWS . SSH server is installed and can be used to connect to the instance using the 'centos' user and the key specified at launch For additional information on connecting to AWS instances please access Connect to your Linux instance using SSH - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
The images is updated at the moment of upload and updates are performed on a regular basis
Red Hat continues to publish the date of June 30, 2024 as the end of Maintenance Support for RHEL 7, the upstream for CentOS 7. RHEL 7 was released on June 10, 2014, so the June 2024 EOL date for CentOS 7 is the full 10 years that we expected
Please note the this AMI comes with additional charges for support

You may also want to try one of our other minimal images

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• CentOS 7 with GUI
• CentOS Linux release 7.9 2009
• CentOS Linux release 8.5.2111
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• Centos Stream 9
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• Oracle Linux Server 7.9
• Oracle Linux Server 8.7
• Oracle Linux Server 9
• Oracle Linux Server 9.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.9
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.1