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Thanks for your answer. However, they do have images with other distros also well preconfigured though don't they?

• slgeorge 9y ago
  Yes they do. Ubuntu considers AWS/GCP to be certified platforms so the server is fully tested on AWS as a hardware platform and there are specific kernel/toolchain/user-space optimisations done to make it run well [0]. The advantage of one of the existing distributions over Amazon Linux is that they are available and tested across multiple clouds, hardware platforms and range of software. [0] https://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/public-cloud https://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/public-cloud this page leads to various documentation on images, optimisations etc.