The Amazon Linux AMI is provided at no additional charge to Amazon EC2 users. This lets you remotely configure Amazon EC2 instances. CloudInit allows passing instance configuration actions to instances at launch time via the EC2 user-data fields. It comes pre-installed with many AWS API tools and CloudInit. Of course, you can use it on AWS, but for many users, that will be just fine. Amazon LinuxĪmazon Web Services (AWS) doesn't make a point of it, but the Amazon Linux AMI, which runs on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), is also a CentOS-based RHEL clone. Annual Oracle Linux support will ding your credit-card bill for $1,199. Of course, if you want support, that will cost you. Oracle promises that Oracle Linux, source code and binaries, will remain free. If you're using Spacewalk or Foreman to manage your CentOS servers, however, you won't be able to use these scripts. I've tested it myself and I easily moved CentOS 6 and 7 servers to Oracle Linux. It does not, tellingly, support porting from CentOS Stream. Still, Oracle saw its chance to finally get some users for its not terribly popular Oracle Linux by swiftly introducing scripts, which will let you quickly and automatically porting you from CentOS 6.
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