What is Amazon Linux?
The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Amazon Linux is a tool in the Operating Systems category of a tech stack.
Who uses Amazon Linux?
Companies
28 companies reportedly use Amazon Linux in their tech stacks, including deleokorea, all, and Studyplus.
Developers
113 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Amazon Linux.
Amazon Linux Integrations
Amazon EC2, Cloudcraft, A-Frame, Percona Server for MySQL, and Redpanda are some of the popular tools that integrate with Amazon Linux. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Amazon Linux.
Amazon Linux's Features
- AWS Integration
- Secure Configuration
- Package Repository Access
- Security Updates
- Lightweight
- AWS Support
Amazon Linux Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Amazon Linux?
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.
Debian
Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.
CentOS
The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code.
Oracle Linux
The Oracle Cloud offers complete SaaS application suites for ERP, HCM and CX, plus best-in-class database Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from data centers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more informati...
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
