User Reviews of Amazon Linux

Updated December 2025

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SAURAB K GANGURDE
SAURAB K GANGURDE
Senior AWS Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
“Amazon Linux delivers automated security updates— including live kernel patching...
One improvement for Amazon Linux would be stronger support for running it outside AWS. Although Amazon provides local VM images for VirtualBox and VMware, they are intended mainly for development and testing. Unlike Ubuntu, Debian, or Red Hat, Amazon Linux is not designed or fully supported as a production OS in on-prem or hybrid...
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Jagadeesh J
Jagadeesh J
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Modern cloud services have improved auto-scaling, reduced costs, and support...
I have not had exposure to migrations, such as from Azure to AWS or GCP to AWS. A main concern is that security patches and versions are released continuously. For example, EKS versions increase with updates. Our applications are built on the latest versions, which affects upgrades. We need to make modifications at the system and...

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