Amazon Web Services announced on September 3–4, 2026 that Amazon Linux 2027, the successor to Amazon Linux 2023, was entering public preview. The new distribution features Linux kernel 7.1, x86-64-v3 support, and extensive software updates, with demonstrated performance gains on AMD EPYC processors.
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AWS announced today the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027. Given the time since Amazon Linux 2023, Amazon Linux 2027 comes with a heavy arsenal of software updates as well as many performance optimizations and other tuning for better running workloads geared for the AWS cloud...
AWS has released a public preview of Amazon Linux 2027, the successor to Amazon Linux 2023, for workloads on its cloud platform [fosslinux.com#1][linuxiac.com#1][phoronix.com#1][lxer.com#1]. The release updates the platform with Linux kernel 7.1, DNF5 and SELinux in enforcing mode by default, while adding AWS-LC cryptographic acceleration and updated accelerator drivers [fosslinux.com#1][linuxiac.
Yesterday AWS announced the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 as their successor to the current Amazon Linux 2023 in-house distribution. With all the software upgrades and improvements like building packages now with link-time optimizations (LTO), enforcing x86-64-v3 builds, and other changes, I was eager to run some performance benchmarks of Amazon Linux 2023 vs. Amazon Linux 2027 in the EC2 cl