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2010 Sep 17
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Amazon AMI based on CentOS 5?
Hello, Amazon has just released a custom Linux distribution (Amazon Linux AMI) for use in their EC2 cloud: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#What_is_the_Amazon_Linux_AMI Out of curiosity, I googled a bit around it and read in various places (e.g. [1] and [2]) that it is based on CentOS 5 (basically a stripped down version) and should be compatible with most packages. Do any of you have confirmation of this? And more details/experience? (I'm not a EC2 user, so...