{"id":37,"date":"2015-11-20T23:48:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T23:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morsello.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2015-11-20T23:48:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T23:48:17","slug":"centos-v-aws-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/20\/centos-v-aws-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"CentOS v AWS Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wblinks.com\/notes\/aws-tips-i-wish-id-known-before-i-started\/\">This post<\/a> got me thinking about which version of Linux to run for my AWS EC2 instances. \u00a0At first, I found the AWS Linux perfectly suitable: it&#8217;s endorsed by Amazon, and obviously runs well. \u00a0All of the appropriate interactions between the operating system and the virtualization system obviously work, where it isn&#8217;t immediately obvious that other version would do the same.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation was inspired by the idea that AWS Linux can not (reasonably) be taken out of the AWS to do investigation, reproduce problems, or develop offline. \u00a0Similarly, you can&#8217;t build an AWS instance on a local (screaming fast) machine and then push an image back to EC2.<\/p>\n<p>I chose CentOS to be that much more agnostic to the hosting virtualization service, though I&#8217;m an AWS fan.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the pleasant side effects I found of using CentOS as bonuses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SELinux &#8212; more security if you want it (and if you don&#8217;t)<\/li>\n<li>Clearer documentation &#8211; examples from the world<\/li>\n<li>CentOS free just like AWS Linux<\/li>\n<li>fresher repositories<\/li>\n<li>simulate environment locally<\/li>\n<li>can&#8217;t pull AWS Linux<\/li>\n<li>Build your own kernel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post got me thinking about which version of Linux to run for my AWS EC2 instances. \u00a0At first, I found the AWS Linux perfectly suitable: it&#8217;s endorsed by Amazon, and obviously runs well. \u00a0All of the appropriate interactions between the operating system and the virtualization system obviously work, where it isn&#8217;t immediately obvious that&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/20\/centos-v-aws-linux\/\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;CentOS v AWS Linux&rsquo;\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}