Amazon last month quietly started offering enterprise customers its own version of Linux called Linux 2. Customers can run Linux 2 in Amazon's cloud or on their own in-house servers.

With the new Amazon WorkSpaces, customers now use Amazon Linux 2 as a desktop besides Windows 7 and 10. The Amazon Linux 2 WorkSpaces are available in different forms including Amazon Machine Image.

According to AWS, Amazon Linux 2 "provides a high performance, stable, and secure execution environment for cloud and enterprise applications," and will include five years of support from AWS, ...

Amazon's vice president of infrastructure describes in detail how the online retailer is using the open-source operating system in nearly every corner of its business.

Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), a third-generation distribution with a high-security standard, predictable lifecycle, and deterministic updates.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a public preview of a new Linux-based operating system that it has built specifically to run containers on virtual machines or bare-metal hosts in the cloud ...

Amazon Linux 2023 was released earlier this week. Amazon said that with this release it aims to deliver a high-security standard, a predictable lifecycle, and deterministic updates.

‘An easy button to get off Windows’: Amazon’s new AI moves Microsoft apps to Linux by Todd Bishop on December 3, 2024 at 12:19 pm Share 37 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

There's a new security-oriented Linux for containers in town from Amazon and its name is Bottlerocket. Instead of being built almost entirely in C, it includes many components written in Rust.