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> However, if you are using it as a server of sorts, you really shouldn't use either of those distros. You are saying around 60% of sysadmins using Amazon inst

by tribaal 11y ago

> However, if you are using it as a server of sorts, you really shouldn't use either of those distros. You are saying around 60% of sysadmins using Amazon instances are wrong. The odds are not in your favour :)

Alupis 11y ago
> You are saying around 60% of sysadmins using Amazon instances are wrong. Yet, 100% of EC2 is built with RHEL/CentOS + Xen.[1][2] Ubuntu was the default VM when they launched EC2, so most users naturally just used the default. But even in Amazon's eyes, when doing "serious" server work, reach for a purpose-built server distro -- not a jack-of-all-trades. [1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-ec2-cloud-is-made-up-of-almost-half-a-million-linux-servers/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-ec2-cloud-is-made-up-of-... [2] http://bleikertz.com/blog/amazon_ec2_underlying_architecture.html http://bleikertz.com/blog/amazon_ec2_underlying_architecture...