Using Amazon Linux 2023 outside of Amazon EC2
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.
