Last week Amazon Web Services released Amazon Linux 2022 in preview form and since then I've been trying out their new cloud-optimized Linux distribut

Amazon Linux 2022 Benchmarks - Offers Competitive Performance Against Ubuntu, CentOS - Phoronix

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2021-11-29 12:00:05

Last week Amazon Web Services released Amazon Linux 2022 in preview form and since then I've been trying out their new cloud-optimized Linux distribution. It's been working out well on AWS (to no surprise) but also great was the level of performance provided by this now-Fedora-based distribution.

Amazon Linux 2022 transitions to being a Fedora-based Linux distribution that AWS intends to support for at least the next five years. Amazon Linux to this point had been based on a combination of RHEL and Fedora packages. Besides shifting the package base to Fedora, AWS engineers have adjusted various defaults of the distribution, employed extra kernel hardening, other package updates/changes, forthcoming kernel live patching, and other alterations in the name of security and AWS performance.

My testing of the Amazon Linux 2022 preview over the past week has been working out well. As tested the current Amazon Linux 2022 "AL2022" stack used the Linux 5.10 kernel (Linux 5.15 LTS appears to be forthcoming), GCC 11.2.1 as the latest system compiler, usage of the XFS file-system, Python 3.9.8, and other bleeding-edge package versions.