Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/926332/

Amazon has released
a new version of its vaguely Fedora-based, cloud-optimized
distribution.

Last—and this policy is by far my favorite—Amazon Linux provides
you with deterministic updates through versioned repositories, a
flexible and consistent update mechanism. The distribution locks to
a specific version of the Amazon Linux package repository, giving
you control over how and when you absorb updates. By default, and
in contrast with Amazon Linux 2, a dnf update command
will not update your installed packages.