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Using Amazon Linux 2023 outside of Amazon EC2 - Amazon Linux 2023

Using Amazon Linux 2023 outside of Amazon EC2

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The Amazon Linux 2023 container images can be run in compatible container runtime environments. For more information on how to use Amazon Linux 2023 inside a container, see AL2023 in containers.

Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) can also be run as a virtualized guest outside of directly being run on Amazon EC2. There are currently KVM (qcow2), VMware (OVA), and Hyper-V (vhdx) images available.

Note

The configuration of Amazon Linux 2023 images differs from Amazon Linux 2.

If you are coming from Running Amazon Linux 2 as a virtual machine on premises you will need to adapt your configuration to be compatible with AL2023.

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