User Reviews of Amazon Linux

Updated January 2026

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SAURAB K GANGURDE
SAURAB K GANGURDE
Senior AWS Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
“Amazon Linux delivers automated security updates— including live kernel patching...
One improvement for Amazon Linux would be stronger support for running it outside AWS. Although Amazon provides local VM images for VirtualBox and VMware, they are intended mainly for development and testing. Unlike Ubuntu, Debian, or Red Hat, Amazon Linux is not designed or fully supported as a production OS in on-prem or hybrid...
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Deva Rugved
Deva Rugved
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Cloud-native workloads have become secure, automated, and efficient for continuous...
The best features Amazon Linux offers is that it has many packages installed as an operating system. I can directly use tools such as Docker runtime, Jenkins, and any DevOps features such as Ansible and many other tools. I can directly access it in the Linux environment using Amazon Linux. What stood out to me and made my experience better...

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