🆚 Amazon Linux vs. Rocky Linux

Type

Operating system
Operating system

About

The Amazon Linux is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

Rocky Linux is an open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

It supports five processor architectures including x86_64 and ARM, offers an opt-in security repository for delivering urgent fixes ahead of upstream releases, and provides a migrate2rocky script for in-place conversions from CentOS, AlmaLinux, or Oracle Linux.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States
Albany, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Operating Systems › Rank #11
Operating Systems › Rank #9

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Rocky Linux operating system is 1.5 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.

Rocky Linux is more popular in the United States, Korea, and Italy, while Amazon Linux is more popular in Japan, India, and Brazil.
Japan
United States
Korea
Italy
United Kingdom
France
Germany
India
Spain
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Rocky Linux is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and software and hardware, while Amazon Linux is more commonly used on Internet services, entertainment, and online shopping sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Software/Hardware
Public Information
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#6,656
#15,077
#18,304
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Name
Rank
#13,923
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See also

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