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Re:Introducing Amazon Linux 2 by slgeorge on Thursday December 14, 2017 @09:04AM (#15922298)
Your first point is not true compared to Ubuntu at least [0]. AWS is basically are repackaged version of KVM (the last time I checked), so there's no particular advantage. Ubuntu (and I'm sure Centos/RHEL) provide custom images which have the same optimised code.

[0] I'm pretty sure it's true for CentOS / RHEL, I just don't know for a fact.

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Re:Introducing Amazon Linux 2 by geofft on Thursday December 14, 2017 @10:49AM (#15923166)
AWS is mostly Xen (they just introduced a KVM option https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-compute-inten... ), and there are a few things like "enhanced networking" where you get a performance boost if you're on a kernel with support but it's still functional if you're on any other kernel.
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