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 Amazon Linux 2 based on CentOS?

The company is a little mysterious about the source code for Amazon Linux 2. … So it is possible to get the kernel source, but the AWS approach is not a collaborative one. The operating system seems to be based on CentOS 7.

Is Amazon Linux based on Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is a favorite platform for Linux stacks; AWS has hundreds of application stacks and application servers based on Ubuntu.