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Amazon Linux 2 is a Linux server operating system of Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides stability, high performance and secure runtime environment for developing and running both enterprises and cloud applications. It is the next generation of Amazon Linux that comes with the Mate desktop environment, which provides a remotely accessible GUI (Graphical User Interface) with VNC. With Amazon Linux 2, you get an application environment that offers long term support with access to the latest innovations in the Linux ecosystem. Amazon Linux 2 is available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It is also available as a Docker container image and as a virtual machine image for use on Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), Oracle VM VirtualBox, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware ESXi.

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