I normally use Amazon Linux for monolithic applications or websites as a web server. Amazon Linux helps me run those monolithic applications or web servers by allowing us to install NGINX or HTTPd using the package managers, RPM. Amazon Linux provides a secure, stable, and high-performance environment that is optimized for the AWS ecosystem itself. It features deep AWS services integration, long-term support, and performance tuning for EC2, making it a reliable choice for monolithic applications.

I normally use Amazon Linux for containerized applications as well, such as EKS. As node groups in EKS, we use Amazon Linux AMIs. Since it is reliable, secure, and gives long-term support from Amazon AWS itself, it serves our needs well.

Considering the best features Amazon Linux offers, I would say the security and reliability stand out. The operating system has been optimized by AWS itself, so it is highly optimized. There are various pre-installed AWS tools inside it. It is Graviton optimized for Arm-based workloads and has security by default with enhanced security, lifecycle, and deterministic updates. Upgrades are also good in this offering. It is cost-effective and works well with the modern toolchain.

Regarding those features, Amazon Linux benefits my day-to-day work by enhancing creativity and content generation with visuals in slides, video productions, and it is quite time-saving.

Regarding how Amazon Linux has impacted my organization positively, it helped us mostly with the costing part. Beyond that, the security posture has improved, which is always a big challenge in larger organizations.

Using Amazon Linux gives us a pay-as-you-go model, paying for fewer resources instead of a large upfront investment in hardware servers. I have seen various case studies which have helped save a lot of costs. Regarding security, I have seen very few incidents related to Amazon Linux. There are various kernel issues which we face in other operating systems, but not in Amazon Linux.

While VM images exist in other virtualization platforms, Amazon Linux is primarily designed for EC2 itself. Expanding official support for on-premise and hybrid scenarios would improve the flexibility for companies with multi-cloud setups. Additionally, expanded package repositories for third-party software would be beneficial. Compared to Ubuntu or Red Hat, Amazon Linux has smaller communities and fewer third-party repositories. Documentation examples could be improved by providing more real-world, varied use case examples rather than just command references.

Amazon Linux should be easily upgradable. From Amazon Linux 2 to Amazon Linux 2023 requires a complete migration, as there is no direct in-place upgrade path. Having an easier upgrade path for migrating from one version to another would be really helpful. Standardized Yum behaviors would also help because Amazon Linux 2023 defaults to DNF, while Amazon Linux 2 was established using Yum workflows. This creates minor compatibility hurdles. Although we can use Yum, it would be better if those behaviors were standardized. Minor improvements could also be made regarding an enhanced terminal experience.

I did not rate Amazon Linux as a perfect ten because of the upgrade path and standardizing the package behaviors. The improvements I needed in Amazon Linux included the upgrade path, standardizing the package behaviors, and support for third-party software. That is why I rated it nine instead of ten.

I have been using Amazon Linux for the past seven years.

In my experience, Amazon Linux is stable. I have not faced any issues with stability.

In my experience, Amazon Linux's scalability is not an issue. I have not faced any issues with that.

The experience with customer support for Amazon Linux was very good. I interacted with them a couple of times and they were very helpful.

Positive

Previously, I was on a private cloud setup where we used to use Ubuntu or Red Hat as per the customer requirements. Later on, I switched to Amazon Linux because of its security and compatibility and everything else it offers.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was really good. The cost is comparatively less, and since there is no license involved when we are using it within AWS itself, the setup was also quite simple. Overall, it was a good experience.

I took Amazon Linux from the Marketplace itself.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was really good. The cost is comparatively less, and since there is no license involved when we are using it within AWS itself, the setup was also quite simple. Overall, it was a good experience.

I have not explored any other options because Amazon Linux itself has a lot of options and features which really helped me with my applications deployment and everything else. If I wanted to explore alternatives, I would have considered Ubuntu, which is also similarly very good.

Most of what I would recommend relates to the security, performance, compatibilities, and support of Amazon Linux that I mentioned earlier. My advice is to not perform in-place upgrades. Try to identify the differences that exist between Amazon Linux 2 and 2023 before upgrading. I rated this product nine out of ten overall.

My main use case for Amazon Linux is to run my production environment in a robust, scalable operating system. I have a SaaS platform where we run all our servers in Amazon, and we use Amazon Linux as the operating system that serves all our servers to our customers.

Being a SaaS platform, we need to ensure the security of the platform that we are running, and Amazon Linux provides the latest and greatest patches with all the packages included, making it easier for us to manage. The best features Amazon Linux offers include a very good package management system where we can quickly install everything, and the packages are compatible and very performant with Graviton processors. Graviton is even cheaper, but we do not have much expertise on running things on Arm processors, so we rely on the operating system, which abstracts us from the Arm processor to the application. Amazon Linux helps us do that, and the performance is so high on these servers. They are fine-tuned in such a way that it can use the best out of the hardware. Amazon Linux has positively impacted our organization. We were running on normal servers which were expensive, and we moved to Graviton servers. If we had used any other operating system, there might have been many packaging issues with the modules that we are using, the classes, the objects, and other components. Amazon Linux comes with all the packages required to run on Graviton, which helped us reduce our cost. We were able to achieve almost 30% more improvement in performance on the servers and almost 10% reduction in cost.

Amazon Linux is currently available mostly in Amazon, but I would like to see it available outside as well. Amazon last provided some security patches that were not very fast, which was one reason I did not rate it higher, along with a few things, such as some particular versions of Python that are not readily available in Amazon Linux.

I have been using Amazon Linux for almost four years.

We have Amazon Linux servers which we have not restarted for almost three years, and the operating system is very robust. Once we received a security patch from Amazon through proactive updates, and we had to update it. Amazon Linux is stable.

Amazon Linux is highly scalable.

Previously, we were using CentOS, and we switched to Amazon Linux for better reliability and continuous support, as Amazon Linux was also a Fedora flavor.

I have seen a return on investment. As I mentioned earlier, we were able to increase the performance by at least 10 to 20% and also reduce the cost by up to 10%.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Amazon Linux is that it was decent, and in fact, it was good.

Before choosing Amazon Linux, I evaluated CentOS as an option.

My advice to others looking into using Amazon Linux is that if you are moving to Graviton servers, Amazon Linux would be the best option, as you will get almost all the packages right away in Amazon Linux. I give this review a rating of 10.

My main use case for Amazon Linux was running production workloads, primarily using it to host backend services for the company and web applications on EC2 instances while helping DevOps with several tasks, one related to QA, as a QA Analyst and QA Engineer.

I hosted a production REST API backend on EC2 using Amazon Linux which handled user authentication and core transactions for a customer-facing web application, and it scaled reliably using AWS Auto Scaling and load balancing.

Using Amazon Linux delivered ROI in several practical ways, notably eliminating OS licensing costs, saving thousands of dollars per year compared to licensed enterprise Linux options, and reducing operational effort with an estimated 25 to 30% reduction in OS-related operational work due to AWS-native defaults and predictable updates.

Amazon Linux fit very naturally into our automation and security practices, regularly used with infrastructure as code and automated provisioning, which made it easy to spin up consistent environments across development, staging, and production, aligning closely with AWS best practices.

The strongest features of Amazon Linux are its tight AWS integration, security, and long-term stability, with one of the biggest advantages being how well it integrates with AWS services out of the box.

The tight AWS integration of Amazon Linux made my day-to-day operations much simpler and more reliable, as IAM roles work seamlessly at the OS level, eliminating the need to manage static AWS credentials on instances, which improved security and reduced configuration effort when deploying new EC2 instances or scaling automatically.

Another feature I found very useful in Amazon Linux is its predictable and well-curated package ecosystem, with stable and tested repositories for AWS environments reducing dependency issues and making system updates safer in production, along with smooth integration with automation and containerized workloads.

While Amazon Linux worked very well overall for us, there could be a few areas for improvement. For instance, the package ecosystem compared to more community-driven distributions like Ubuntu, where some packages can lag slightly behind in terms of versions, occasionally requiring extra effort when newer language runtimes or tools were needed.

I have been working in my field as a manual tester and then moved into automated testing for seven years in total, performing and executing test cases on some freelance platforms.

Amazon Linux is very stable, especially for long-running production workloads on AWS, having been able to run it on production EC2 instances for extended periods with minimal issues.

Amazon Linux scales very well, especially when used in AWS-native environments, working seamlessly with AWS Auto Scaling and load balancing to scale from a small number of instances to dozens or more during traffic spikes without needing OS-level changes.

Amazon Linux customer support is generally good, understanding that support is structured through AWS support plans and official documentation, relying on AWS for issues directly related to Amazon Linux behavior on EC2, with timely and helpful responses for performance, updates, or AWS integration issues.

Positive

We have not used any other solution before Amazon Linux.

Using Amazon Linux delivered ROI in several practical ways, notably eliminating OS licensing costs, saving thousands of dollars per year compared to licensed enterprise Linux options, and reducing operational effort with an estimated 25 to 30% reduction in OS-related operational work due to AWS-native defaults and predictable updates.

The pricing and licensing model of Amazon Linux is one of its biggest advantages, having no additional licensing cost and no per-core and per-instance OS fees, making cost planning straightforward by only paying for the underlying AWS infrastructure.

Before choosing Amazon Linux, I evaluated a few alternatives, specifically considering Ubuntu Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and CentOS.

I would advise that if you are planning to run workloads on AWS, Amazon Linux is a strong and practical choice, best suited for AWS-native, cloud-first architectures where tight integration with AWS services, security, and long-term stability matter. I would rate this product an 8 out of 10.

My main use case for Amazon Linux is mostly deploying servers using NGINX and application runner, and I use it as a base image in Amazon Linux itself when I write any Docker file.

In my current project, investment.in, I use Amazon Linux as a web server as well.

The best features Amazon Linux offers, in my opinion, are the yum command and the packages that are already included, along with other packages that I can easily install in the Linux environment.

These features help me in my daily work by making automation very easy.

Amazon Linux has positively impacted my organization by increasing productivity since automation is easy and fast, allowing me to set up servers easily, thus productivity increases and efficiency improves as soon as possible while deploying my application using Amazon Linux.

For the improvement of Amazon Linux, I think there should be UI features in the future, as Amazon Linux currently has only terminal capabilities without a UI, and I hope to see documentation updates as soon as possible so when documentation expires, I am updating it and referring to it soon.

When using Amazon Linux, I would prefer if any command goes wrong that an auto-command feature would appear there.

I chose eight out of ten because command line improvement is needed along with UI features, and the second thing is that you can use auto-command line features.

I do not think there are any other improvements Amazon Linux needs right now, maybe something related to security, performance, or compatibility.

My advice for others looking into using Amazon Linux is to make sure the command line is easy and that Amazon Linux has more performance than other Linux environments and is more secure than other Linux environments as well.

I have been using Amazon Linux for more than five years, because I started using Amazon Linux in college.

I have more to add about how I use Amazon Linux; using the command, using shell machines, and using the terminals in Amazon Linux could be a great experience.

I would like to add that Amazon Linux is easy to use with the command line and also user-friendly, with no need to download any third-party updates like RPM packages and then install; I just use the command line only to download directly and install directly.

I purchased Amazon Linux through the AWS Marketplace.

I think next time with Amazon Linux, whenever a bad command is returned, it could be auto-generated to create the perfect command, and that is something you can implement.

I give this product a rating of eight out of ten.

We primarily use Amazon Linux for the deployment of Amazon machine instances. We also use it for loading up our packages for building Docker images inside it and for many different cases where we usually utilize it.

Recently, we used Amazon Linux to host running web servers using Apache and Nginx, and we were also working on a project for deploying some backend services like Node.js, Python, and Ruby. We hosted some APIs and microservices on these instances. We are using it as the default common operating system for the Amazon EC2 instances, and it helps us in many different ways, especially since our EKS cluster is a self-provisioned cluster, as we are using Amazon Linux instances as the provisioned instances.

The positive impact of Amazon Linux on my organization is significant, as it has improved organizational security by closing known vulnerabilities quickly, reducing the risk of hacking and malware, resulting in fewer security incidents and lower breach risk. Financially, Amazon Linux is cost-effective and prevents costly data breaches and downtimes, saving considerable money and protecting the company's revenue. It also simplifies compliance and audits such as HIPAA, making it easy for us to get audit approvals while ensuring the organization stays legally compliant and increases system stability by fixing bugs and kernel issues.

The best features that Amazon Linux offers, based on my day-to-day activities, are that it is optimized for AWS. It is tuned for EC2 instances, has fast boot times, and works seamlessly with AWS services including EC2, EBS, S3, and IAM. It is also free with no licensing cost, does not require a subscription, and is included in AWS usage, making it cost-effective. Amazon Linux 2 offers five years of support, includes a lot of security patches, and has secure defaults. I find it valuable that even the kernel is optimized for efficient memory and CPU management.

In my day-to-day work, the features of Amazon Linux help significantly, especially with system stability and performance. Additionally, the pre-built AMI images in Amazon Linux are easy to create, and creating custom AMIs is straightforward. It is also developer-friendly and cloud DevOps-friendly. The package management is stable, using YUM and AWS-maintained repositories. Security features assist us as a company since security teams detect vulnerabilities, and security issues reported show common vulnerability exposures, providing reports almost through using Trivy while utilizing the EC2 instance. AWS can analyze those vulnerabilities, implement fixes, and test to ensure the systems remain stable.

Speaking of challenges I faced with Amazon Linux, some other use cases I used it for include building containers that I take and store in my Amazon ECR, and the main challenge I usually faced was vendor lock-in, as the design is mainly for AWS. It has limited optimization and support outside AWS, and for us to migrate loads to another cloud, it requires many changes. The community support is also limited because it is smaller compared to Ubuntu or Debian, and there are fewer third-party tutorials and troubleshooting guides for Amazon Linux, so we must heavily rely on AWS documentation. It is still a great tool but has a learning curve and cannot really be compared to other Linux distributions.

Although I am a DevOps engineer and do not have specific metrics readily available, I am aware that patch deployment time is notably efficient, as critical patches are usually applied within less than 48 hours from release. For unpatched common vulnerability exposures, the instances of these were near zero for high or critical CVEs. This assures efficiency and reveals that we did not experience many security incidents due to unpatched systems, although I do not have specific figures for that.

Personally, from my own experience with Amazon Linux, I can suggest improving the patch compliance rate by automating patching using the systems manager patch, scheduling automatic patch windows, and enforcing patch baselines to achieve higher compliance and fewer missed systems. Standardizing operating system images by using golden AMIs with the latest images could also help, as new systems are built by default while removing unused software would be beneficial.

Further improvements needed for Amazon Linux include ensuring compatibility beyond AWS, which would be very useful, as well as enhancing GUI support since it is primarily focused on server workloads. A better graphical user interface based on admin tools would be great, and providing more frequent runtime updates for languages such as Python, Node.js, and Java, which currently lag behind in their latest releases, would also be beneficial. Additionally, improving monitoring and reporting features while integrating patch and security dashboards would be useful.

I have been using Amazon Linux for a year now.

Amazon Linux is really stable. As I highlighted, it has higher reliability and fewer crashes and issues, as well as a better security posture with less risk of security breaches.

Amazon Linux handles scalability well for my needs. Especially when integrated with autoscaling groups on ECS and EKS, it scales effectively, with minimal problems from my experience. Even the cooling down process after scaling out or scaling down does not cause many headaches, and you only pay for what you use, which makes it great.

For customer support, we are on a support plan maintained by AWS. The team I am working with mainly uses the developer plan, while those in production often use the enterprise plan for dedicated support and architectural help. The support primarily covers installation issues, operating system problems, and networking, and while they provide helpful resources such as GitHub links and blogs for general issues, we often conduct our own research, as our company has experts working with Linux in the infrastructure.

Negative

I have been using Amazon Linux ever since I joined the company; therefore, I have not used a different solution.

Amazon Linux is best suited for EC2 workloads, ECS, EKS containers, and AWS-native applications. You can use it for production workloads because it is stable and secure, and without license fees, you can expect lower costs compared to Red Hat Linux and Windows, providing a great return on investment for cloud-native workloads. If your application requires very new software versions, you may need additional repositories or manual installations, such as Docker containers using custom images. The ability to patch regularly, apply patches on time, and utilize the patch manager is a key advantage. Amazon Linux offers many use cases and is recommended for microservices, making it great for security purposes by using IAM roles and security groups properly while integrating with CloudWatch for monitoring.

Compared to Ubuntu and other Linux distributions, Amazon Linux has worse support, which often leads us to rely heavily on documentation. Additionally, there are fewer third-party tutorials available for Amazon Linux. Furthermore, it still needs improved package availability, as some newer software versions are missing. Amazon Linux has smaller repositories than Ubuntu, so providing more up-to-date packages and expanding official repositories would help. Easier version upgrades and stronger multi-cloud support beyond AWS, reducing vendor lock-in, would enhance its overall effectiveness.

We usually purchase Amazon Linux through the AWS Marketplace.

Since I joined the company, they have been using Amazon Linux, and I would not know what specific options were previously evaluated. However, Amazon Linux was chosen for its faster deployment times, which means less configuration time for the operating systems and quicker time to market. It has lower maintenance costs, requires less admin workload, offers automated patching, and is highly reliable with fewer crashes and issues.

I rate Amazon Linux at seven out of ten on an overall scale.

I usually ran GoLang applications on Amazon Linux. These applications are compiled for any Linux flavor or architecture. I have worked with API backends for VoIP APIs in the CPaaS platforms.

Recently I got a use case where I needed to implement a noise cancellation application for Amazon Linux as a backend application. This noise canceller specifically used an Intel procedure which is specific to architecture. I faced some challenges with Amazon Linux in this scenario. I had to switch to Ubuntu for that specific use case.

If you are building something of your own in a language such as GoLang or Python, it is really easy to set it up and just hit the go button. You just need to build your application and you can have a binary which can run on Amazon Linux easily. However, for specific tasks such as the noise reduction case, I have to install a package for a specific instruction which I had never worked with before. That was a new experience. It is really easy to install on Amazon Linux from the package right away, which is a really good thing.

We are scaling up and scaling down in the EKS environments with Amazon Linux only. Amazon Linux really works well for this.

Amazon Linux is really easy to use. Almost all of the packages and all of the third-party applications are available for Amazon Linux. They are just one command away to install them.

For example, if I use any CentOS based system, Ubuntu based system, or Debian based system, I have to keep updating my repository. Sometimes it is really hard to find some Amazon specific packages for those distributions. However, for Amazon Linux, it is really good and really handy that all of the information and all of the packages are available on just a few commands away.

Regarding the update side, I really appreciate the kernel patches for Amazon Linux. They are released straightaway. Whenever something is fixed in the security domain, it gets released pretty soon compared to other distributions for Amazon Linux. In terms of customer compliance with GDPR and similar requirements, it is really good to have that.

I have noticed benefits in my workflow with Amazon Linux. When I used to have a Windows laptop and whenever I needed a Linux instance, I used to spin up one on EC2. This brought me a lot of helpful things without owning a machine. Even if I am in an environment where I have very low network bandwidth and I have to compile huge images or build a big image, perhaps something related to AI or training a model, it is really easy to just spin up an EC2 instance and build that image there. The network connectivity and all those aspects help in that way.

It is really easy to integrate Amazon Linux with the conventional tools available for all Linux systems.

Amazon Linux has performed really well under heavy workloads.

I feel there can be a lot of extensibility for Amazon Linux, the same way we have for Ubuntu or Debian. That might be a good use case to look forward to.

I would love to get my hands on Amazon Linux on a laptop, if that is possible. Nowadays the machines are really powerful and if you have an operating system like Ubuntu and you love working with Linux, people will easily switch to Amazon Linux because they are running the same thing on their laptops and even in the cloud. That would be really beneficial in that case.

I have been using Amazon Linux since 2020 and it has been five years now. I have been using Amazon Linux to run production applications on EC2 instances and running some POCs, creating test applications around it. I have used Amazon Linux as my secondary computer in the cloud for four years.

Amazon Linux is really good and stable.

It is easy to scale Amazon Linux. If you want scalability and many out of the box features, you can choose Amazon Linux right away.

I have not had any chance to reach out to customer support.

Negative

I have used a couple of Linux distributions before Amazon Linux. I have used Linux Mint, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian. I still use them for some software which is recommended for it, but not much.

Amazon Linux was readily available on the AWS cloud, so it was an easy switch and there were no major setup complications.

I did purchase Amazon Linux a couple of times through the AWS Marketplace. However, these things are majorly managed by the DevOps team.

I saved around 100 to 200 hours of build time when I used to have a slow laptop before I switched to Mac. That was really helpful. I can do other tasks while the build is going on, so it increased productivity as well.

In general, I have saved many hours in my workflow. We are not in the era of generative AI where you have to research, implement, and test everything. Because I used to have a Windows instance, Amazon Linux was my go-to for any of the tasks.

I mostly found Amazon Linux documentation and community support very easily. Nowadays I majorly use Gemini or ChatGPT for my issues, which is really helpful.

Most of the time Amazon Linux meets the need in the security areas with latest patches for everything.

It is mostly for public cloud, specifically public AWS. We use Amazon Linux across all the environments.

It is really good. As I work in an enterprise environment, most of the pricing and other details are handled by other teams, not the backend engineering team. I have never faced any such issues.

I would rate this product an 8 out of 10.

My main use case for Amazon Linux is deploying our ClickHouse cluster. ClickHouse is an OLAP database where we are spanning data across multiple terabytes, and we're using EC2 instances on AWS, which are based on the Linux operating system. We have a cluster of 16 EC2 instances based on Amazon Linux, and using those instances, we are deploying our ClickHouse cluster.

In addition to deploying our ClickHouse cluster, we are also using Amazon Linux for our ClickHouse Keeper, which is for the coordination, and we are using it for our CHProxy, which is the ClickHouse Proxy for user authentication, query limiting, and other functionality.

Amazon Linux provides us a great capability of deploying ClickHouse, as ClickHouse is much more compatible with Linux instances if you're deploying it on-premises, as the support team has advised us. We have specifically utilized Amazon Linux in our use case to deploy ClickHouse, and since we have configs that we need to manually deploy there, we have to work with Linux commands to change our configs. That sort of capability and ease of doing things is being provided by Linux, so we are very happy with Amazon Linux.

Stability is a great point since we rarely face any downtime with Amazon Linux in terms of Linux instances going down. Regarding security, since we have deployed this in the VPC, we need to ensure we have the right protocols opened, and Linux within itself provides us great capability to ensure we have high-level security as well. Amazon Linux integrates well with services like S3 for storing our data, and we are also using Route 53 for our routing services and DNS services for the ClickHouse cluster. It integrates well with AWS services, and we are also using CloudWatch for the metrics.

Amazon Linux has positively impacted our organization in a couple of ways. There were two ways to deploy a ClickHouse cluster: the first was to go with a cloud solution, and the other one was to go with Amazon Linux. We looked at the cost in both ways, and the cloud version was expensive for us, so we looked at Amazon Linux on-premises and tried to deploy our cluster by doing a certain POC. We found out there was a significant cost difference. It gave us much more control over how we store our data and what we can do with it, so we went with the approach of deploying a cluster on Amazon Linux. That was a positive impact for us in terms of having control over data, keeping it in a secure network of ours only, and it also saved us costs, giving us a full circle moment to save our expenses.

I believe Amazon Linux provides a wide variety of instances in terms of the RAM and storage that you want with the EBS volumes, so nothing can be improved in that regard. It's just that with the start time, when you're initially starting an instance, it takes a certain amount of time to reboot itself and set up the environment, and if that can be improved to instant speed, I think that will be much more helpful.

I gave it an eight because of the instant speed consideration. Since we are working in a real-time manner and need to scale things immediately, the time it takes to boot an instance and then deploy things is preventing me from giving it a perfect rating. That aspect is crucial, as it affects the time required to start up an instance and instantly deploy it.

I have been working in my current field for 4.5 years.

Amazon Linux is stable in my experience, and we did not face any downtime or reliability issues.

In terms of scalability, we find it easy to scale our workloads up or down, with the only drawback being the time it takes to restart or boot an instance. Otherwise, everything else is good.

We have been satisfied with all of this. We had good support from AWS if we faced any issues, and the documentation is really great. We faced no compatibility issues, so I think we are in good standing on that part.

We didn't reach out to customer support because we didn't face any issues, so I would rate the customer support a 10 out of 10.

Positive

Since our whole cloud network is deployed in AWS, we didn't look into other instances. We initially considered using Windows for the instances, but then we switched to Linux since the ClickHouse team informed us that Linux instances would be hugely compatible with the ClickHouse environment.

As a developer, I'm not directly impacted with the cost, but during the meetings I attended, there were discussions of saving up to 30% of cost savings by going with Amazon Linux.

As I mentioned for the cost savings, we saved 30% in terms of the cloud infrastructure. Time saved is significant since we are working with a real-time database, which saves us time compared to going with OLTP. With Amazon Linux coming in, we have also saved time in terms of query execution time, and those are the numbers that I can share.

My advice to others looking into using Amazon Linux is that it's a great piece of technology you can use to deploy your application environment. It works within a great environment of a private network, integrates well with other AWS services, keeps you in a close-knit ecosystem, is highly scalable, and ensures that you have high performance for your application while rarely facing any downtime. I would rate this product an 8 out of 10.

My main use case for Amazon Linux is as a base for my EC2 instances, but recently I have been using it almost exclusively as EKS node stock images.

A specific example of how I am using Amazon Linux in one of my projects is that it hosts our Kubernetes nodes that connect to AWS EKS services.

The best feature Amazon Linux offers, in my opinion, is the compatibility with AWS cloud and AWS services.

When I mention compatibility with AWS cloud and services, I appreciate how it is connected to AWS System Manager and how it automates registration to EKS.

Amazon Linux has impacted my organization positively by simplifying the workflow where we manage our EKS nodes. It simplifies our workflow because it reduces time; we always know that Amazon Linux AMIs are updated with all security patches and compatible with EKS, so we are able to rely on them.

I am not sure how Amazon Linux can be improved, as we are fully satisfied with it, but sometimes we cannot find some modern application packages. I cannot provide examples right now, but I think previously I tried to install a PostgreSQL server into it and I was unable to find the latest version available from the package registry, so I had to compile it myself.

I do not remember exactly how long I have been using Amazon Linux, but probably starting in 2018.

Amazon Linux is stable in my experience; there were no issues at all with stability.

The scalability of Amazon Linux for my needs is good; it is the same as any Linux distribution.

We previously used Ubuntu and kops to deploy Kubernetes clusters, but we switched when Amazon provided the EKS service and AMIs with Amazon Linux that connects to EKS.

Before choosing Amazon Linux, we worked on Ubuntu.

Amazon Linux is free, so we are not purchasing Amazon Linux, but we use AMIs that are published on the Marketplace.

I do not have experience with the pricing of Amazon Linux.

My advice to others looking into using Amazon Linux is to use it if you need it.

I would not add more about the needed improvements, perhaps around package availability or anything else that comes to mind.

My overall review rating for Amazon Linux is 7.

A major use case for Amazon Linux is that it powers both web servers and application servers. As a payment company, we majorly use Amazon Linux to deploy our services. Being able to ship those services to our customers means that the performance of the service is critical to our customers, which speaks to service reliability. Service reliability has been one key thing that Amazon Linux has been able to deliver to us as an organization.

From the performance perspective, our use case is basically the deployment of services, and using Amazon Linux as the baseline OS has really helped us from the performance perspective compared to our experience with other baseline operating systems we have used in the past.

The boot time and resource usage have improved with Amazon Linux compared to other baseline operating systems we have used in the past. Resource usage is more efficient with Amazon Linux. Faster boot time and efficient resource usage make Amazon Linux perform better for us.

Being able to ship services to our customers efficiently and ensuring service reliability is a key benefit delivered by Amazon Linux.

I believe customer feedback and engagement will help improve the product. From my own standpoint for now, nothing comes to mind. We recently moved to Amazon Linux, but it has been efficient for us. Nothing comes to mind at this time.

I have been using Amazon Linux for a few years now and it is currently being used at my workplace. We have a couple of services that are being deployed on Amazon Linux.

Amazon Linux is stable.

From the scalability perspective, Amazon Linux has been efficient for us. It has been able to handle the traffic load for us.

Customer support generally for AWS has been great, and we have not seen a reason to have any situation with the customer support. On the grand scheme of things, the customer support has been awesome.

Negative

We evaluated and deployed some services on Ubuntu and some other Linux distributions.

Because we set up Amazon Linux on AWS, which I believe is proprietary to the AWS organization, the experience was efficient.

We have seen a return on investments with that, and we were able as an organization to save something around $8,000 per month. That was really helpful.

The pricing is not bad, especially with the Graviton instances, the ARM Graviton instances, which has also really helped us in our organization to basically drop our cloud cost.

It has been a great experience with Amazon Linux for us as an organization. My overall review rating for Amazon Linux is 7 out of 10.

I am working with Infosys, and the client is Denmark's Bank, Danske Bank, one of the largest banks in Denmark. I am part of a migration project with the bank servers moving from on-premises to AWS cloud. Amazon Linux was purchased from the Amazon Marketplace, and we have OpenShift, the Red Hat OpenShift container platform. As a migration engineer, I am not entirely certain how partnerships work with Amazon. My organization is large and its structure regarding how they manage their relation with AWS cloud is complex. We are using the service, with the OCP cluster purchased from the marketplace running on AWS and managed by Red Hat.

Regarding Amazon Linux, I observe that there is not much difference between Amazon Linux and Red Hat Linux. When I install packages, I notice that Red Hat Linux takes a little more time, and I am uncertain if it is based on the hardware or the security system. The RPM-based package makes it very difficult to install some specific packages in Red Hat Linux, but with Amazon Linux, it is easy to install RPM or DNF packages.

I have been using Amazon Linux for the last one and a half years.

Future features for Amazon Linux, like cost-effectiveness, should be improved because any organization, whether small, a startup company, or a large organization, primarily considers cost. Comparing to Ubuntu, an open-source alternative, I think Amazon Linux could benefit from some cost optimization because it costs a little more than Ubuntu in Indian Rupees.

Regarding maintenance for Amazon Linux, sometimes it requires maintenance similar to how Red Hat provides end-to-end support for Red Hat Linux.

Regarding Amazon Linux support, we used to raise tickets for any issues related to it. We connect on chat or interact with AWS engineers for critical issues. With the support system for Amazon Linux, I feel there is a lack compared to Red Hat, which provides a stronger support system.

I have overall experience of 6+ years, with six years, nine or ten months as of this January.

Regarding the stability of Amazon Linux, we are migrating thousands of servers from on-premises to AWS cloud for Danske Bank. I observed that while patching and updates from Red Hat systems are handled easily, with Amazon Linux we need to take extra care, particularly with legacy systems, since the latest versions work fine without issues.

In my experience with Amazon's technical support, all issues are resolved whenever I connect with their engineers, but the communication levels can be somewhat different, such as a priority system. I would give a score of 8.5 to 9 out of 10.

Positive

From an installation point of view for Amazon Linux, there is nothing difficult as we are using Terraform for deployment purposes. We use the Amazon provided AMI directly and deploy it, just as we do with other Linux flavors such as Ubuntu or Red Hat.

From my personal and system perspective, I have experienced over the last one year that any packages run easily in Amazon Linux, which I would recommend because I am a cloud engineer for AWS cloud for the last six plus years and I am aware of how these things are involved. For Amazon Linux overall, I give it nine out of ten because it executes commands very smoothly, and that is what I appreciate about it. I would rate this review nine out of ten.