Amazon's cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a preview of its custom Amazon Linux distribution (AL2022), while committing to updating the distribution every two years.
Amazon Linux is popular with AWS users for its tight integration with AWS tools and lack of license fees. The service also ensures that your new features work as advertised with the distribution.
The distro has had two major releases so far; the first in 2010 and the second in 2017. However, with the third release of AL2022, the service commits to a two-year release cycle, with each release supported for a period of five years.
Today, we are announcing the public preview of Amazon Linux 2022 (AL2022), Amazon's new general-purpose Linux for AWS that is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance runtime environment for developing and running your applications in the cloud. ”, he shared. aws.
Fedora-based
According to the announcement, AL2022 is based on the popular Fedora distribution and comes with the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) kernel security module enabled and applied by default.
AWS says the two-year major release cycle, with updates shipped quarterly through minor releases, will help keep software current, while the five-year support commitment for each major release will give customers the stability they need. to manage for a long time. project life cycles.
“AL2022 combines the benefits of our current Amazon Linux products with a predictable two-year release cycle, so customers can plan for operating system upgrades as part of their product lifecycle,” says AWS.
AL2022 is now available in preview in all commercial regions and is provided at no additional cost.
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