🆚 Amazon Linux vs. CentOS
- 📈 CentOS is much more popular than Amazon Linux.
- 🌎 CentOS is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Germany.
- 🌍 Amazon Linux is more popular in Ireland.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Operating system
Operating system
About
The Amazon 
Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by 
Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
CentOS is a discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL.
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington, United States
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The CentOS operating system is 14 times more popular than Amazon Linux.
Total websites
Market share
Operating Systems
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
CentOS is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Germany, while Amazon Linux is more popular in Ireland.
Japan
United States
Germany
Korea
Italy
Netherlands
Russia
Taiwan
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Ireland in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in India in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Singapore in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Brazil in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Panama in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Panama in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
CentOS is more popular than Amazon Linux in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Software/Hardware
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Ubuntu
Debian
TurboLinux
Amazon company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.