User Reviews of Amazon Linux

Updated June 2026

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Amazon Linux review

Saurab Gnagurde
Saurab Gnagurde
IT Analyst | Aws Cloud Ops | Dev Ops | Fin Ops at Tata Consultancy
“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

Leo Ladeira
Leo Ladeira
Student at Unemployed at the moment
Cloud automation has boosted my lab projects and provides a secure, reliable...
I think Amazon Linux can be improved, particularly in that the package names for core services like MariaDB should be consistent between major versions. For example, the MariaDB server is available in Amazon Linux 2 but is absent from Amazon Linux 2023 default repositories. This lack of consistency complicates migration and breaks existing...

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