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BBR Accelerate Enabled For Amazon Linux2, by reducing the packet loss rate and buffer occupancy rate of the network link, provide faster and more stable network transmission.

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BBR Accelerate Enabled For Amazon Linux2, by reducing the packet loss rate and buffer occupancy rate of the network link, provide faster and more stable network transmission.


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bhavik m.
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bhavik m.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"AMAZON LINUX2 OPERATING SYSTEM USER REVIEW"
This is next version of Amazon linux os. It is combination of centos and ubuntu. Most packages are updated in the repository which is supported by ...
Jashuva K.
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Jashuva K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"It was good operating system"
Easily communicate with one server to another server. Its flexible
Kabir A.
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Kabir A.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"good featured with security-focused and optimized performance"
functionality is too good and work seamlessly with AWS services and infrastructure, providing tight integration and optimized performance
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Dipanjan B.
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Cloud Technical Lead (Senior Grade - 1)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

Amazon linux is an operating system created by Aws on flavour of centos/redhat which comes free of cost without licence with aws subscription . Many softwares ore installed in this OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

For some customer we cannot use aws linux as it is not enterprise version. For Amazon elastic beanstalk the servers which are created are woth amazon linux. Which is the most disadvantage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is most useful for performing any proof of concept in linux machine along with this to perform some containerisationnand docker it is most useful as many softwares inbuilt in this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

That it comes with dependencies for AWS packed! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

Sometimes the yum repositories don't have all the external libraries present. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Gives me a Linux on AWS hosted machine and makes AWS support easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

- Full integration with AWS

- It has enhanced performance over other AMIs

- It is free Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

- The software repository is not too big

- No desktop version

- Vendor lock-in Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Deploy things on cloud and take advantage of AWS mostly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mufti shahzad s.
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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

1. It is optimized for running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure and is fully supported by AWS. This means that customers can receive technical support and access to the latest software and security updates.

2. It is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), which is known for its stability and performance. This means that Amazon Linux 2 inherits many of the same features and advantages of RHEL, such as a stable and secure operating system, and a large collection of software packages.

3. It is designed to be lightweight, with minimal overhead. This makes it well-suited for running on virtual machines and containers, which are common in cloud computing environments.

4. It comes with the LTS kernel, which is optimized for the latest generation of EC2 instances and provides better performance and security.

5. It has been integrated with several AWS services, such as AWS Systems Manager, which makes it easy to manage instances, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk, which makes it easy to deploy and scale applications.

6. It is updated frequently with new software and security updates, so users can stay up-to-date with the latest features and bug fixes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

Amazon Linux 2 is a Linux distribution that is tailored to the needs of Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers, and it may not be as suitable for use outside of the AWS ecosystem. Additionally, some users might prefer other Linux distributions that have more frequent updates or a larger community of users and developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon Linux 2 is a Linux distribution that is designed to make it easy for customers to run applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides a stable, secure, and high-performance environment for running applications, and it is fully supported by AWS. This means that customers can receive technical support and access to the latest software and security updates. Additionally, because Amazon Linux 2 is designed to be highly compatible with other AWS services, it can help customers more easily build and deploy applications on the cloud. This can help AWS customers save time and costs, and improve the reliability and scalability of their applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nagarjuna N.
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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

User friendly and command line interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

Proprietary Amazon Linux AMI. While Amazon Linux provided for free and open source, still an amazon customized Linux distribution. This night raise a concerns for users who prefer entirely open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon providing as open source to develop and debugging customized tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prathip R.
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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

Amazon linux 2 is very cheap and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

I don't have any dislike about Amazon Linux 2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is very useful for using as web servers and SFTP servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jaspreet S.
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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

AWS gives ready to use linux server. positive point is that everything is configured via UI and we don't have to worry about the administration part.

We can easily connect to it via making remote SSH connection via putty on windows or via ssh command from Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

There's nothing much to dislike, the only thing is that we need to take care of the cost involved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

We don't have to install Linux and maintain it anymore on our side. Amazon handles it all and also gives us options to easily scale them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rohit B.
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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

It provides security focused environment to run cloud apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

It will be the Migration from Amazon Linux 1 to 2 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Since it is purely security focused linux based envirornment, Making the job easy to run the cloud based apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sujata K.
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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

It provides a highly secure, stable and high performance environment to run my applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

Sometimes the initial warm up takes sometime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it to run performance testing tests. It scales quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yogita K.
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What do you like best about Amazon Linux 2?

We were using on-premise RedHat Linux OS but since we have moved to AWS, life has been easy. It was easy for us to configure instances, and it is very easy to use. Customer Services are very impressive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Linux 2?

We haven't observed any downside of it yet since we have started using it. It is very easy and user-friendly to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Linux 2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Very user friendly installation. Customer service is really the best. It is benefiting us in terms of cost & performance. In case of Severity 1 tickets, we get a very good response from the Amazon Linux team, which was not the case with RedHat Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.