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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...
Amazon Linux review
Terrence Ncube
Junior DevOps Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
Optimized cloud workloads have improved security and cost efficiency while needing...
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...
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