Overview

Amazon EC2 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a dependable platform to deploy a broad range of applications. By running RHEL on EC2, you can leverage the cost effectiveness, scalability and flexibility of Amazon EC2, the proven reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and AWS premium support with back-line support from Red Hat. Amazon EC2 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides seamless integration with existing Amazon EC2 features including Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon CloudWatch, Elastic-Load Balancing, and Elastic IPs. Includes access to Red Hat Insights, which provides proactive management and remediation guidance for RHEL 8 instances.

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Content is available through the BaseOS and Application Stream (AppStream) repositories.
Application Streams (AppStream) most developer tools will be here
The YUM package manager is now based on the DNF technology and it provides support for modular content, increased performance, and a well-designed stable API for integration with tooling.

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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.

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Connecting to Instance:

To connect to your instance, you will need to use SSH over port 22. The default username for connecting is ec2-user. For further information about the standard AWS method of connecting to an instance, see information described here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstances.html

Basic configuration of the environment includes:

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System Locales
Application of Updates with DNF/YUM

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Support is available through forums, technical FAQs and the Service Help Dashboard. Paid support is available. All customers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on EC2 will receive access to repository updates from Red Hat. Moreover, AWS Premium support customers can contact AWS to get access to a support structure from both Amazon and Red Hat.

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Reviewed on May 09, 2023

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I use it for my application it running and not error when running it. It's the best choice for me.

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Reviewed on Jan 28, 2020

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I would have loved to know that this isn't a windows OS before I purchased this product, oh wait I did. Yep, good stuff.I like it. Thanks for being great.