Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Amazon Linux stands out thanks to its tight integration with many Amazon Web Services (AWS) services, long-term support, and a compiler, build toolchain, and LTS Kernel tuned for better performance on Amazon EC2.

Is Red Hat a Linux based product?

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform. * It’s an open source operating system (OS). It’s the foundation from which you can scale existing apps—and roll out emerging technologies—across bare-metal, virtual, container, and all types of cloud environments.

What distro is Redhat based on?

CentOS/RHEL-based

A Linux distribution designed for use in small and medium enterprises.