Re:Introducing Amazon Linux 2
by jon-wood on Thursday December 14, 2017 @02:54AM
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If you're running on AWS it's really nice to have everything preconfigured for things like logging to Cloudwatch, and not having to mess around with kernel optimisations.
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Thanks for your answer.
However, they do have images with other distros also well preconfigured though don't they?
Yes they do.
Ubuntu considers AWS/GCP to be certified platforms so the server is fully tested on AWS as a hardware platform and there are specific kernel/toolchain/user-space optimisations done to make it run well [0].
The advantage of one of the existing distributions over Amazon Linux is that they are available and tested across multiple clouds, hardware platforms and range of software.
[0] https://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/public-cloud this page leads to various documentation on images, optimisations etc.