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Decent RHEL Clone but minor supportability issues

  • By ferricoxide
  • on 01/24/2025

Overall, this is a perfectly serviceable RHEL clone offering. It's nice having an distribution-owner created with LVM-enabled "out of the box" (while there are several such options on Azure, they're thin on the ground in AWS). 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


  • By Rodney Marable
  • on 02/22/2025

The lack of a native ParallelCluster AMI is also mildly annoying.