As a happy user of AWS Linux 2, it is extremely disappointing that they're no longer providing a drop-in RHEL replacement for EC2. I don't see any mention of things we and many large shops like ours care about - long term support and RHEL compatibility.
We've been very vocal to AWS product managers and solution architects about our needs for an Amazon Linux 3 that is a refresh over AWS Linux 2 (at least 5 years support with RHEL 8 compatibility, free kernel patching w/o reboots, official support from datadog, vmware images). Sad that we haven't been heard. We'll now need to plan to move over 20k instances to Rocky Linux.
I suspect that the move to using Fedora has something to do with changes to the CentOS project that AWS Linux 2 forked. Let's hope the beancounters at IBM doesn't have other plans for Fedora.
We've been very vocal to AWS product managers and solution architects about our needs for an Amazon Linux 3 that is a refresh over AWS Linux 2 (at least 5 years support with RHEL 8 compatibility, free kernel patching w/o reboots, official support from datadog, vmware images). Sad that we haven't been heard. We'll now need to plan to move over 20k instances to Rocky Linux.
I suspect that the move to using Fedora has something to do with changes to the CentOS project that AWS Linux 2 forked. Let's hope the beancounters at IBM doesn't have other plans for Fedora.