Amazon Linux is a distribution that evolved from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS. It is available for use within Amazon EC2: it comes with all the tools needed to interact with Amazon APIs, is optimally configured for the Amazon Web Services ecosystem, and Amazon provides ongoing support and updates. You should not use this distribution for your EC2 instances, however, as the convenience of Amazon Linux does not outweigh this significant operational downside: there is no official distribution of Amazon Linux for use outside the Amazon cloud.
Why does this matter? The obvious first answer is that use of Amazon Linux creates additional migration costs when moving to another cloud service. By using it you are locking yourself in just that little bit more, and entirely unnecessarily. There are any number of other stable, well supported distributions you can use in EC2, and installing the tools for working with Amazon APIs is a trivial few lines of shell script for any of them. So why make life difficult for yourself when you don't have to?
References
https://www.exratione.com/2014/08/do-not-use-amazon-linux/
Why does this matter? The obvious first answer is that use of Amazon Linux creates additional migration costs when moving to another cloud service. By using it you are locking yourself in just that little bit more, and entirely unnecessarily. There are any number of other stable, well supported distributions you can use in EC2, and installing the tools for working with Amazon APIs is a trivial few lines of shell script for any of them. So why make life difficult for yourself when you don't have to?
References
https://www.exratione.com/2014/08/do-not-use-amazon-linux/
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