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Amazon Linux

Score7.3 out of 10

5 Reviews and Ratings

What is Amazon Linux?

Amazon Linux 2 is a Linux operating system from Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides a security-focused, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. Amazon Linux 2 is provided at no additional charge. AWS provides ongoing security and maintenance updates for Amazon Linux 2.

Categories & Use Cases

A well balance OS with features and cost effectiveness

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we have infrastructure of multiple applications within our environment of production and testing environment we are using Amazon Linux for deploying multiple application script, running batch jobs and doing multiple automation on Amazon Linux instances over AWS cloud environment. Amazon Music is very friendly and reliable to me because it comes with Amazon cloud support and it is easy to work with it and have easy communication for troubleshooting with support

Pros

  • Security and kernel update
  • Repository management with Amazon Linux repo
  • Easy and convenient usage for beginners as well as professional guys.
  • Pre-installed with Amazon command line interface to interact with multiple services of AWS

Cons

  • There should be a graphical user interface because there is only command line interface available for this os
  • File transfer problem with other operating systems
  • Needs tools which should be pre-installed for network connectivity, checking like telnet etc.

Return on Investment

  • Return of investment is much better than other operating system as we get robust Support along with OS license
  • When we compare cost of Amazon Linux with other Linux operating system, then we founded, it was much cheaper and efficient in performance as well as costing for Amazon machines
  • Software updates, deployment and tasks are very well handled with any hardware specifications, whether it is on very high higher specification or when it comes to low with huge workload

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ubuntu and Azure Virtual Machines

Other Software Used

Azure Cloud Services, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform