Amazon enabled BPF flags in the Amazon Linux AMI with 2016.03, and generally seems to move to whatever the latest LTS kernel is when they release a new version.

Amazon enabled BPF flags in the Amazon Linux AMI with 2016.03, and generally seems to move to whatever the latest LTS kernel is when they release a new version. Since 4.9 is supposed to be the next LTS, if it gets out of RC fast enough, we could see 4.9 in the 2017.03 Amazon Linux AMI, which would be a pretty big win for those of us running workloads in the AWS cloud.