
Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM), SSD Volume Type (64-bit x86)
Amazon Web Services | 2.0.20230912.0Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2.0.20230307.0 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Linux AMI
What do you like best about the product?
Like most of the EC2 instances, the Amazon Linux AMI is just another type. I usually launch the Ubuntu instances, but this is another option for those would prefer something different.
What do you dislike about the product?
No real dislikes. The only inconvenience is if I'm used to using a certain instance type with a specific OS, moving to something else could involve a learning curve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Launching a new instance and deploying software on the cloud.
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Best EMI for EC2
What do you like best about the product?
Highly optimized amazon machine image for aws. seamlessly works on top of EC2 instances and integrates easily with other services like S3. It is included in aws free tier version.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation and support was not upto the mark. Even currently its in maintanance support
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Run and develop core linux based applications on aws compute engines like ec2.
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All In One Development Cloud
What do you like best about the product?
Amazon Linux AMI is no longer in support however they have launched Amazon Linux AMI V2 which is more powerful, secure,robust and is promising for support upto 2023.
What do you dislike about the product?
No doubt Amazon Linux AMI v2 is powerful than older version, however the older version was a bit more convenient in terms of UI and usability, it will take time to adapt the new version
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
People who often user Amazon Web Services in their product for almost every single operation will love this because this is indeed intentionally designed to optimize the way of working with AWS , building, testing and deploying projects over aws
Great experience using Amazon Linux AMI
What do you like best about the product?
I like the capacity to have the option to break down and oversee client information. Using Amazon Linux AMI, I was able to create keys for for the host. It allowed me to manage packages better. The element to add public keys to work with logins for organization has a piece of getting ready storehouses.
What do you dislike about the product?
All good. Awesome.. but with taking notes that it requires basic experience to operate it; overall no dislikes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quicker set-up - AMI is typically a lot quicker and smoother contrasted with customary programming establishments. Pre-designed layouts - Permit proficient sending or at least one examples.
Lightening speed improved our deployment agility
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about this is the speed of deployment. Our deployment agility has improved a lot and also we do not have to go through learning new methods to deploy everytime as the learning curve here is not steep and our teams loves it
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometime pricing transprency is limited so it becomes difficult to budget the resources for this. We deployed a 3rd party multi cloud dashboard to get rid of that problems
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of deployment and speed of deployment is much more now and team has learnt if very fast and has given us ability to have back-up resources. Also, the agility it provided, has improved our overall efficiency and productivity
Quick and Easy deployment
What do you like best about the product?
Using Amazon Linux AMI we can easily deploy Linux servers and virtual machines just by selecting the AMI as it will be predefined with certain softwares. Compared to other cloud platforms, Amazon has wide range of AMIs
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike about it, thing is we need know basic Linux commands to operate in it, as it is not a GUI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping us to easily deploy web servers within few minutes, we have created our custom Linux AMI for this purpose so it helps in maintaining and balancing the web traffic.
AMAZON LINUX AMI
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to be able to analyze and manage user data; you can generate keys for hosts being configured; the feature to add public keys to facilitate logins for administration has a part of preparing repositories which allows me to manage packages better; the integration with Amazon Elastic and Amazon EC2.
What do you dislike about the product?
Too many protocols for package installation and too many runtimes for my taste, the only supported method to connect to instances is SSH. I wish were more methods; I would like more security updates.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it to transmit configuration actions integrating it with Amazon EC2; it is also a viable option when it comes to data analysis since it has excellent security encryption, the fact that it is based on Linux allows us to program better in PHP, it is helpful to improve user security.
Amazon Linux instance launch and security
What do you like best about the product?
In Amazon machine image that I really like that I easily to launch Amazon Linux server in any environment like on-premises and cloud that few step only after launch 2 minutes is running
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that Amazon Linux server connect to the third party software like putty. I suggest you any ony connect the server through the cmd and direct connect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I solve the releated error from offical documentation on Amazon ec2 instance and follow the stackflow on google.
Good,customized Linux image
What do you like best about the product?
They are able to build the Linux variant without losing or compromising the linux features
What do you dislike about the product?
From my understanding its not compactable outside AWS platform
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its not any OS replacement but competing with the major holders
Best Linux varaint for AWS
What do you like best about the product?
Able to implement with different service of AWS very easily and secured. Performance is top notch.
What do you dislike about the product?
Boot up time is little more, which if reduced will be good
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Most of the applicatioon interact with AWS service are easy to implement. Which save lot of time.
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