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    Rocky Linux 8 (Official)

    The official Rocky Linux 8 image

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    ferricoxude

    Ok Offering but has CSP support issues

    Reviewed on Jan 24, 2025
    Review from a verified AWS customer

    Overall, this is a perfectly serviceable RHEL clone offering. Currently, only real complaints are:

    * No Compliance as Code project-entries, so that tool can't be used to automate security-hardening to desired hardening-benchmarks (PCI/DSS, CIS, STIG, etc.)
    * Can't use CSP's automated tasks due to service-document issues – even though it's a RHEL clone, services like SSM and GuardDuty don't quite know what to do with/for it

    Chris Scull

    Rocky 8 Available for Amazon EC2 G6 Instances?

    Reviewed on May 28, 2024
    Review from a verified AWS customer

    When is the EC2 G6 instance going to be available for Rocky 8? We have an HPC environment and require the new EC2 G6 instances to be available with the Rocky 8 OS. Is this possible?

    Jesse D

    Replaced CentOS

    Reviewed on Jan 31, 2023
    Review from a verified AWS customer

    I used this to replace my CentOS environment. If you're thinking of migrating from RHEL or CentOS, Rocky Linux is a great replacement.

    JJ

    Why is the smallest instance type a t3a.small!?

    Reviewed on Jan 05, 2023
    Review from a verified AWS customer

    This AMI does not support the smaller instance types that a large amount of people use. I know Rocky Linux 8 technically supports it because they are available in the Community AMI section but the Marketplace is the only place I really trust to deploy AMI's from using official AMI's from Rocky Linux themselves. This is a big disappointment and we are meeting as a company about this now and whether we want to adopt Rocky Linux or Alma/Amazon Linux instead.

    This AMI only supports a t3a.small at $0.019/hr which is 3-4x the price of the smallest instance types that CentOS 8, RHEL 8, Alma and others support. Rocky Linux team please get this addressed or reply with the reasoning

    Tundra

    Perfect replacement to CentOS

    Reviewed on May 29, 2022
    Review from a verified AWS customer

    I've used CentOS in the past, but since CentOS 8 has died, I've been looking for a replacement and Rocky Linux is perfect

    William

    Flawless replacement for Centos 8

    Reviewed on Dec 31, 2021
    Review from a verified AWS customer

    We have implemented Rocky Linux to replace Centos 8 servers and experienced a seamless transition. All our internal Centos docs and guides worked for Rocky as well.

    Amy

    The user name to login with is rocky

    Reviewed on Nov 01, 2021
    Review from a verified AWS customer

    The user name to login with is rocky.

    Rocky team, please update this somewhere in the description as that would help people get it going a little easier

    chanupen

    Works Great !

    Reviewed on Sep 10, 2021
    Review from a verified AWS customer

    Works Great !

    but still I am evaluating in my test environment !
    till now; no issue notices. everything smooth to setup till the terminal !

    Thanks !

    Rob

    Can't seem to login, doesn't happen with the LVM version of the AMI

    Reviewed on Aug 24, 2021
    Review from a verified AWS customer

    Seems like this just times out when trying to connect. Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this with this image?

    Leo

    Thank you very much to the Rocky Linux Team

    Reviewed on Jul 30, 2021
    Review from a verified AWS customer

    The release of Rocky Linux as an alternative to CentOS 8 is a good thing for open source. Thank you very much to the Rocky Linux Team for the GA release.