Amazon Linux 2 Pros and Cons

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 Amazon linux 2. No need to outside to get any package. Resilience of this is best part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When we mount swap partition in Amazon linux 2 using its mount point path, then sometimes it creates issue as os did not get boot so later on it was identified that, in Amazon linux 2 any mount point should be mounted based on UUID not with respect to actual path. No where this information was mentioned so it was big hurdle before it was get troubleshooted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easily communicate with one server to another server. Its flexible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No. All are good and all like this operating system is very good thought for our feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

functionality is too good and work seamlessly with AWS services and infrastructure, providing tight integration and optimized performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nothing to dislike , everything is well-defined Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use

Available on EC2

Best in performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some distributions are not available, recently tried using the caddy server but was not able to get through Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Linux 2 is a popular distribution designed And maintain by Amazon Web Services.Aws offer several Advantage like

Free to use,Security,Docker support,Compatibility,integration with Aws service,Performance and optimization,long support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing to dislike much but yes here are some like

Learning curve,Community support,Default configuration,Package availability,Relase cycle.

It's important to note that opinion on operating system can be subjective And what one person dislike about Amazon linux 2 may not be an issue for someone else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Linux 2 is open source operating system that can save our money comparatively other linux distributations. Amazone Provides the Long term Support for the Amazon Linux 2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As of Now it is the Great for the AWS Environment, if you plan to use it outside the AWS you may face some challanges. Amazon Linux 2 Receives the Security Updates with the same features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As the (base) machine image for our cloud services I value the long-term support, automated security updates and the wide variety of popular runtime environments for our application deployments. Another key feature is the out-of-the-box compatibility with Amazon Web Services' command line tools which allows us to automate a lot of our infrastructure creation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the past Amazon Linux 2 has been slow to adopt and support the very latest runtime environment versions like the latest NodeJs version 18. The same has been true for the support of some dependencies our application relies on, in most if not all cases the problematic packages are binary dependencies which rely on the support of the underlying machine image. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is user friendly to use it. Amazon LInux platform is very easy to use, design, maintain and operate. I have used for this platform for quite sometime. It is very userfriendly. Also there are not hidden costs. Whatever cost associate with it can be seen from the portal. This tool can be integrated with many other tool. Therefore it can be used for many applications for research and development, product development, testing and etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing much. It is working well. Many it can improve some security features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Linux Is a best service to use in our daily use application to host. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Till date i didnt find anything to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.