Amazon Linux Reviews

My main use case for Amazon Linux is deploying Java microservice applications, Python applications, and .NET applications. I chose Amazon Linux most of the time because my platform and infrastructure are hosted in Amazon, so the compatibility is fine with Amazon Linux while using Amazon.

I deploy applications on Amazon Linux by writing scripts in the user data script and deploying the web application from there.

Amazon Linux is deployed in my organization in a private cloud where we deploy everything.

The best features Amazon Linux offers include optimized performance and tight AWS integration. SELinux is enabled on Amazon Linux and performs automatic security patching and CVE fixes. Critical vulnerability fixes and those security features have helped me significantly. The integration with AWS CLI, Cloud-init, and services such as SSM Agent and CloudWatch agent has been useful.

Amazon Linux has positively impacted my organization primarily by providing cost savings, as we do not want to spend on the OS portion.

Amazon Linux can be improved by integrating other cloud features so that other cloud providers can also use Amazon Linux. GCP and Azure could benefit from Amazon Linux compatibility as well.

I have been using Amazon Linux for seven years.

I have saved approximately five percent.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing includes working on multiple other vendor licenses for the software licensing portion. The setup cost involves initial migration planning and related activities.

Amazon Linux cost is free to use, which provides significant cost optimization benefits that we always leverage. My advice to others looking into using Amazon Linux is to use it and save your cost. I would rate this product nine out of ten.

I have been using Amazon Linux from the day I started learning about AWS services, and we use Amazon Linux images most of the time.

I typically use Amazon Linux for containerizing things when we are developing something such as writing Docker files or running those commands. We use it most often for that purpose.

I was recently creating a bot which sends me emails whenever the pipeline fails or the pods are restarting, and I have used Amazon Linux in the containerized image of that.

In my opinion, the best features Amazon Linux offers are the scalability and the portability of platforms it provides, which are the most valuable features of Amazon Linux.

The scalability and portability of Amazon Linux have helped me because many times it happens that multiple people are working on the same project, and at that time we need to scale it. Thus, it was an easy task to scale it and to work with multiple teams. Regarding portability, we many times needed to shift it from one EC2 instance to another, making it easy as well.

Amazon Linux has positively impacted my organization by helping us to automate things on a large scale, so it was really helpful.

There were many things which we used with Amazon Linux, and it was really helpful, providing noticeable time savings and other measurable improvements after using it.

I think Amazon Linux can be improved by making things more easy to use and user-friendly, as the features are very inherited and in hierarchical dynamics. If you can make it simpler, it will be easy to use.

I have been using Amazon Linux from the day I started learning about AWS services, and we use Amazon Linux images most of the time.

Amazon Linux is stable.

The scalability of Amazon Linux is good. We can scale the system, so it is easy.

The customer support for Amazon Linux is supportive, and they helped us understand the system and how it works.

For pricing, my experience with Amazon Linux was that it was most like other services, such as how we use EC2. The things were not difficult. It was easy to set up.

I do not have anything else to add about my main use cases for Amazon Linux.

The reason I chose nine out of ten is that the hierarchies of features make it somewhat difficult to make people understand how we use it, which was my concern.

My advice to others looking into using Amazon Linux is that whichever companies are using cloud-native things like AWS services for their infrastructure for private or public cloud, they should use Amazon Linux as it provides many functionalities.

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My review rating for Amazon Linux is 9.5 out of 10.

My main use case for Amazon Linux is that I use it in EC2. A quick, specific example of how I use Amazon Linux in my day-to-day work is that I use Amazon Linux 2023 in EC2, so I can use Linux for my field. I am deploying applications using Amazon Linux.

The best features Amazon Linux offers, in my experience, are that everything in Amazon Linux is very nice, and I use it every day.

The features that stand out to me in Amazon Linux are the integration with AWS services, as well as security, stability, and performance, which are all very strong.

Amazon Linux has positively impacted my organization by making deployment easier and improving performance. By using Amazon Linux, we saved significant time and resources.

Amazon Linux improved performance and made deployments easier because of blue-green deployment.

Amazon Linux 2023 is very well-designed, and there is nothing to be added to it.

User interface and documentation could be improved in Amazon Linux to make it easier for newcomers.

I have used Amazon Linux for about two years.

Amazon Linux is very stable in my experience.

Amazon Linux's scalability is very strong.

I used customer support for Amazon Linux many times, and it was very helpful.

I previously used Ubuntu and Red Hat before Amazon Linux.

I have seen a return on investment with Amazon Linux, and I think it has resulted in money saved and time saved as well.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is based on my experience with setup cost.

I evaluated Ubuntu before choosing Amazon Linux, and my experience was not very good, which is why I switched to Amazon Linux.

Everything is very strong regarding my use case and how I deploy applications with Amazon Linux. There is nothing to add about the features of Amazon Linux. My advice for others looking into using Amazon Linux is that they should use Amazon Linux, as its performance is very strong and it saves time and money. I have given this review a rating of 10.

Amazon Linux is used in projects at my company. A quick specific example of how I use Amazon Linux is in applications, for clients, and in application migrations.

The best features Amazon Linux offers are best practices in AWS, the usability, and the ease of use in AWS.

What makes the usability and switching in AWS stand out for me is the ease of usability, that it already comes with frameworks installed, and the ease of use with SSL. Amazon Linux has positively impacted my organization, and I have seen improvements and benefits since using it. I have noticed improvements, even small ones, such as time optimization.

Amazon Linux can be improved with better integrations in applications. There are other improvements I think Amazon Linux needs, but it is mostly working well for me.

I have been using Amazon Linux for five years.

Amazon Linux is stable in my experience.

Amazon Linux's scalability meets my needs as it does not present any problems for me in day-to-day use.

Customer support for Amazon Linux exists, but I have never needed to use it, although I know it is available. I would rate the customer support at a seven on a scale of one to ten.

I previously used Ubuntu before Amazon Linux, and I decided to switch due to its features.

I have seen a return on investment with Amazon Linux, especially in terms of time saved. For example, the instance is created quickly and comes with some Amazon packages already installed, which has saved me time.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Amazon Linux is that there is no cost, and I am paying only for the AWS instance.

Before choosing Amazon Linux, I evaluated other options, specifically Debian and Windows.

My advice to others looking into using Amazon Linux is that you can use it without regret. I would rate this review at ten out of ten.

My main use case for Amazon Linux is mostly deploying servers using NGINX and application runner, and I use it as a base image in Amazon Linux itself when I write any Docker file.

In my current project, investment.in, I use Amazon Linux as a web server as well.

The best features Amazon Linux offers, in my opinion, are the yum command and the packages that are already included, along with other packages that I can easily install in the Linux environment.

These features help me in my daily work by making automation very easy.

Amazon Linux has positively impacted my organization by increasing productivity since automation is easy and fast, allowing me to set up servers easily, thus productivity increases and efficiency improves as soon as possible while deploying my application using Amazon Linux.

For the improvement of Amazon Linux, I think there should be UI features in the future, as Amazon Linux currently has only terminal capabilities without a UI, and I hope to see documentation updates as soon as possible so when documentation expires, I am updating it and referring to it soon.

When using Amazon Linux, I would prefer if any command goes wrong that an auto-command feature would appear there.

I chose eight out of ten because command line improvement is needed along with UI features, and the second thing is that you can use auto-command line features.

I do not think there are any other improvements Amazon Linux needs right now, maybe something related to security, performance, or compatibility.

My advice for others looking into using Amazon Linux is to make sure the command line is easy and that Amazon Linux has more performance than other Linux environments and is more secure than other Linux environments as well.

I have been using Amazon Linux for more than five years, because I started using Amazon Linux in college.

I have more to add about how I use Amazon Linux; using the command, using shell machines, and using the terminals in Amazon Linux could be a great experience.

I would like to add that Amazon Linux is easy to use with the command line and also user-friendly, with no need to download any third-party updates like RPM packages and then install; I just use the command line only to download directly and install directly.

I purchased Amazon Linux through the AWS Marketplace.

I think next time with Amazon Linux, whenever a bad command is returned, it could be auto-generated to create the perfect command, and that is something you can implement.

I give this product a rating of eight out of ten.

I have experience with the product. AWS Lambda functions and the S3 bucket are the Amazon products I deal with mostly.

I am generally satisfied with Amazon Linux; I appreciate the EC2 instances as well.

The ecosystem of software packages in Amazon Linux has helped us keep up to date with the artificial intelligence trend, where people are using ChatGPT to code, and they are also using Amazon Developer Q to program applications much faster, and then also to meet requirements with the Google Play Store and Apple Store.

The rich documentation of Amazon Linux is beneficial for my migration processes; it is very helpful.

Amazon Linux's security updates have been helpful in general because I have had to be more specific in using the Identity Access Management (IAM) service so that we can have role-based permissions in preference to just keeping it open.

Amazon Linux can be improved by having the documentation contain more examples of use cases.

I have been working with Amazon Linux for at least five years.

The initial setup was very friendly for me; it was very friendly on Mac. I did not have any severe challenges installing or updating.

I do not use the optimized kernel in Amazon Linux.

I tried a little bit with Alexa services, but considering, it has been a while since I updated the integrated AWS CLI feature in Amazon Linux.

I find the pricing friendly because it is per hour; I use the pay-as-you-go option so that if the application does not have a lot of users, it is cheap. However, when there are many users, the users then pay for the expenses of the application.

There is a need for features including integration with other marketplaces; when you build, launch once, and deploy everywhere, it would be easy to just deploy once if there was that integration. That would be a nice feature to have.

I would recommend Amazon Linux to others. I give this review a rating of 7.

My main use case for Amazon Linux is as a base for my EC2 instances, but recently I have been using it almost exclusively as EKS node stock images.

A specific example of how I am using Amazon Linux in one of my projects is that it hosts our Kubernetes nodes that connect to AWS EKS services.

The best feature Amazon Linux offers, in my opinion, is the compatibility with AWS cloud and AWS services.

When I mention compatibility with AWS cloud and services, I appreciate how it is connected to AWS System Manager and how it automates registration to EKS.

Amazon Linux has impacted my organization positively by simplifying the workflow where we manage our EKS nodes. It simplifies our workflow because it reduces time; we always know that Amazon Linux AMIs are updated with all security patches and compatible with EKS, so we are able to rely on them.

I am not sure how Amazon Linux can be improved, as we are fully satisfied with it, but sometimes we cannot find some modern application packages. I cannot provide examples right now, but I think previously I tried to install a PostgreSQL server into it and I was unable to find the latest version available from the package registry, so I had to compile it myself.

I do not remember exactly how long I have been using Amazon Linux, but probably starting in 2018.

Amazon Linux is stable in my experience; there were no issues at all with stability.

The scalability of Amazon Linux for my needs is good; it is the same as any Linux distribution.

We previously used Ubuntu and kops to deploy Kubernetes clusters, but we switched when Amazon provided the EKS service and AMIs with Amazon Linux that connects to EKS.

Before choosing Amazon Linux, we worked on Ubuntu.

Amazon Linux is free, so we are not purchasing Amazon Linux, but we use AMIs that are published on the Marketplace.

I do not have experience with the pricing of Amazon Linux.

My advice to others looking into using Amazon Linux is to use it if you need it.

I would not add more about the needed improvements, perhaps around package availability or anything else that comes to mind.

My overall review rating for Amazon Linux is 7.

The use cases for this in our company is that we have a customer that internally uses it for several applications, and they are a telecommunications company that has virtual machines and Linux machines for several purposes.

In my opinion, the best features of Amazon Linux include the stability and its standard Linux distribution, which in some cases is easier to deploy and manage than the Ubuntu distribution, but I feel comfortable with Ubuntu too.

The rich documentation with Amazon Linux is beneficial for my migration processes; I think that one of the strongest parts is the documentation. AWS has a lot of documents and official documentation, which is pretty good in most cases, even though in some instances, you have to use the documentation for third parties.

It helps with workflow by being pretty useful for automation tasks.

Right now, I don't think there are any specific areas to improve in Amazon Linux.

I say it's stable because I'm a pretty big fan of the Linux platform in general, so for me, it is the most stable distribution and the most stable operating system, especially since I know that they use the latest kernel.

I say it is also scalable because when AWS starts a project that works with something, they do things in a very good manner; AWS is a very stable distribution.

I rate the support or customer service of Amazon as very good because our customer has a support contract, so they pay a lot of money for access; my team can reach AWS engineers 24/7. It's really good support.

I haven't used a lot of support in the case specifically for Amazon Linux, but the few times I have to request support for that platform, the engineers have been very proficient and they have a lot of knowledge in the platform.

For me, the initial setup is complex, but I don't have sufficient elements to emit a concept in that part.

I use AWS, Azure, and I'm starting to use GCP, Google Cloud Platform.

I have also used ZoomInfo. I have been using the product since its creation. I have not used the ZoomInfo product.

With Amazon, I use AWS in infrastructure, EC2, S3, RDS, etcetera. Mostly infrastructure products, and in Azure, I use virtual machines, VNETs, and SQL Azure, etcetera.

I have used Amazon Linux machines, but in some cases, I deliver Ubuntu servers, but I have used Amazon Linux machines as well.

I use that feature in Amazon Linux, absolutely.

I don't remember if I use the optimized kernel in Amazon Linux because I have used the Linux functions and the Linux functionality per se, but I'm not used to that functionality in AWS.

I don't have so much experience regarding the pricing and licensing of Amazon Linux.

We are partners with Amazon, we are registered partners, and we have several people certified in AWS, but we need to get much more business and pay the subscription to go to the next step in our level of partnership.

I rate this review with an overall rating of 10.

My main use case for Amazon Linux is setting up Linux servers, monitoring servers, Kubernetes servers, testing, and setting up customer servers. I have used Amazon Linux for setting up customer monitoring solutions, such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack. I also used it for setting up a Kubernetes cluster.

Amazon Linux offers excellent support, which is better than other Linux distributions. The platform provides stable versions, quality packages, and reliable commands. The stability is a key attribute I appreciate about Amazon Linux.

What stands out to me is the regular updates, patches, and package support that Amazon Linux provides.

Amazon Linux has positively impacted my organization significantly. We were using Windows, but after switching to Amazon Linux, it is cost-optimized and very secure.

I do not measure cost optimization or security improvements in a formal way, but we compare our current Windows server costs with the projected costs if we switched to Amazon Linux. Windows is not very secure to use, whereas Amazon Linux is very secure.

Amazon Linux can be improved by providing more session time. When connecting using EC2 Connect, the session time is limited. If you are away from the window for more than five or ten minutes, you must restart your entire session. This is an area that could be enhanced.

Although Amazon Linux is stable, there is room for improvement.

I have been using Amazon Linux for more than four years through both my professional experience and learning experience.

I rate Amazon Linux eight out of ten because it provides everything we need, but it still requires improvements in stability.

Amazon Linux has good scalability.

Amazon Linux provides good customer support.

I rate the customer support for Amazon Linux as an eight out of ten.

I was using Windows servers before transitioning to Amazon Linux.

I purchased Amazon Linux through the AWS Marketplace.

I had a good experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing.

I had a good experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing.

We were confident we wanted to use Amazon Linux and did not evaluate other options.

Amazon Linux is better than other Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and other standard Linux options. I recommend using Amazon Linux because it is managed by Amazon and has excellent support and stability. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

A major use case for Amazon Linux is that it powers both web servers and application servers. As a payment company, we majorly use Amazon Linux to deploy our services. Being able to ship those services to our customers means that the performance of the service is critical to our customers, which speaks to service reliability. Service reliability has been one key thing that Amazon Linux has been able to deliver to us as an organization.

From the performance perspective, our use case is basically the deployment of services, and using Amazon Linux as the baseline OS has really helped us from the performance perspective compared to our experience with other baseline operating systems we have used in the past.

The boot time and resource usage have improved with Amazon Linux compared to other baseline operating systems we have used in the past. Resource usage is more efficient with Amazon Linux. Faster boot time and efficient resource usage make Amazon Linux perform better for us.

Being able to ship services to our customers efficiently and ensuring service reliability is a key benefit delivered by Amazon Linux.

I believe customer feedback and engagement will help improve the product. From my own standpoint for now, nothing comes to mind. We recently moved to Amazon Linux, but it has been efficient for us. Nothing comes to mind at this time.

I have been using Amazon Linux for a few years now and it is currently being used at my workplace. We have a couple of services that are being deployed on Amazon Linux.

Amazon Linux is stable.

From the scalability perspective, Amazon Linux has been efficient for us. It has been able to handle the traffic load for us.

Customer support generally for AWS has been great, and we have not seen a reason to have any situation with the customer support. On the grand scheme of things, the customer support has been awesome.

We evaluated and deployed some services on Ubuntu and some other Linux distributions.

Because we set up Amazon Linux on AWS, which I believe is proprietary to the AWS organization, the experience was efficient.

We have seen a return on investments with that, and we were able as an organization to save something around $8,000 per month. That was really helpful.

The pricing is not bad, especially with the Graviton instances, the ARM Graviton instances, which has also really helped us in our organization to basically drop our cloud cost.

It has been a great experience with Amazon Linux for us as an organization. My overall review rating for Amazon Linux is 7 out of 10.