Amazon Linux is AWS’s own flavor of a Linux operating system. Customers using our EC2 service and all the services running on EC2 can use Amazon Linux as their operating system of choice. Over the years we have customized Amazon Linux based on the needs of AWS customers.

How do I get Amazon version on Linux?

You can use /etc/os-release file to get the info about Amazon Linux Version, the machine is running.

What OS is Amazon Linux?

Amazon Linux 2 is the next generation of Amazon Linux, a Linux server operating system from Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides a secure, stable, and high performance execution environment to develop and run cloud and enterprise applications.