AWS Exec: 'Our Understanding Of Open Source Has Started To Change'
The Register, Monday, December 4,2023
Apache Foundation president David Nalley on Amazon Linux 2023, Free software, and more
AWS is wary of vendor-driven open source projects, performs business health checks on all its open source dependencies, and suffered impact on the development of Amazon Linux when CentOS as we all knew it was discontinued, The Register was told at the internet giant's re:Invent conference.
David Nalley is director of open source strategy and marketing at AWS and president of the Apache Software Foundation. 'My purview is pretty much anything open source at AWS,' he said.
Is there any benefit in using Amazon Linux versus other distributions for an EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) virtual machine? 'For a long time, Ubuntu was the primary distribution that people rolled out,' said Nalley. 'We work with a number of different distributions making sure that they work well.'