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Amazon Linux vs CoreOS: What are the differences?
What is Amazon Linux? The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon EC2. The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
What is CoreOS? Linux for Massive Server Deployments. CoreOS is designed for security, consistency, and reliability. Instead of installing packages via yum or apt, CoreOS uses Linux containers to manage your services at a higher level of abstraction. A single service's code and all dependencies are packaged within a container that can be run on one or many CoreOS machines.
Amazon Linux and CoreOS can be categorized as "Operating Systems" tools.
SoFi, Astronomer, and Instamojo are some of the popular companies that use CoreOS, whereas Amazon Linux is used by Advance.Careers, INTI, and Facilita.tech. CoreOS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 45 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Amazon Linux, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 23 developer stacks.
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