Chris Schlaeger: Amazon Web Services is built on two fundamental services: S3 for storage services and EC2 for compute services. … Linux, in the form of Amazon Linux as well as Xen are fundamental technologies for AWS.

Is Linux mandatory for AWS?

You don’t need to know linux to pass, but it will help A LOT to know basics at least the most used commands: cd, ls, cp, rm, ssh, what ssh keys are, what access key ids are and how to configure the cli from a remote server, the directory structure, what is a cronjob, what is a script and so on.

Does Amazon own Linux?

Amazon has its own Linux distribution that is largely binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This offering has been in production since September 2011, and in development since 2010. The final release of the original Amazon Linux is version 2018.03 and uses version 4.14 of the Linux kernel.