You Asked: What Version of Linux Is Amazon Linux?
Contents Amazon Has Its Own Linux Distribution That Is Largely Binary Compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This Offering Has Been in Production Since...
Amazon has its own Linux distribution that is largely binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This offering has been in production since September 2011, and in development since 2010. The final release of the original Amazon Linux is version 2018.03 and uses version 4.14 of the Linux kernel.
What version of Linux is Amazon Linux 2?
Amazon Linux 2 AMI is available with both kernel 4.14 and kernel 5.10.
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Is Amazon Linux based on Ubuntu?
There’s a discussion thread available over on the AWS forums that indicates the officially supported Amazon Linux AMI is not based upon any Linux distribution. Rather, the Amazon Linux AMI is independently maintained image by Amazon. IIRC it started off as a RHEL/CentOS modification.
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