For Amazon Linux, the recipes are slightly different for the AMI versus on-Prem. For the AMI we cut out a bunch of things from the initramfs that you don’t typically need in a cloud environment saving a further second (ish) of launch time. This config is in the Dracula-config-ec2 package.
For on-Prem you may actually use this, so we don’t build it in there.
Amazon Linux 2 is still a supporter OS. When it was released we announced it had 5 years of LTS support. With the AL2022 preview, we have just announced what comes after AL2.
AL2 is less of a rolling release than AL1 was. AL1 had a new release every six months.
For on-Prem you may actually use this, so we don’t build it in there.