Amazon linux belong to RHEL/CentOS family. You could choose the ubuntu image: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EC2StartersGuide
They have official AMI. But someone claimed that Amazon Linus has best performance on EC2, since it is created by Amazon... On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > All, > > I'm provisioning my first Amazon EC2 instance and I was wondering if > anyone has any recommendations on the flavor of Linux I choose. > > I am most familiar with the Debian/Ubuntu package management and > administration and, of course, Amazon has neither of those as image > types to choose. It looks like I can choose: > > * Fedora > * CentOS > * SUSE > * "Amazon Linux" > > I have no idea what that last one is... it uses yum as it's package > manager so I assume it's related to Fedora/RHEL. > > Any thoughts? > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk7elegACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PAJSACdGGydDID/KpQKOZG+rcYmAKGx > TrEAn2DbnBLTcCxVjEpTF1IDvpVw6qc7 > =3BCN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
