NEW YORK--It's not the first time Amazon.com has proclaimed its support for Linux, but it's the most detailed. At the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here, Amazon Vice President of Infrastructure Tom ...

Amazon's vice president of infrastructure describes in detail how the online retailer is using the open-source operating system in nearly every corner of its business. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Almost half-a-million Amazon cloud servers run Linux every day. While Amazon has never officially said what it's running as EC2's base operating system, it's generally accepted that it's a customized ...

Earlier this week, Amazon announced the availability of Amazon Linux 2023, its third-generation Linux distribution. With this distribution, Amazon is promising three benefits: a high-security standard ...

Amazon is taking a huge swing at the tech world by dumping Android and rolling out its own Linux-based Vega OS. The retail giant reckons it can reshape how millions use Fire TV devices and other ...

AWS has released an early version of its next distro, Amazon Linux 3, which is based on Red Hat's community Linux, Fedora. The online bookseller turned cloud company has been trying to incorporate Red ...

The maintainers of Linux distributions are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability that’s already being exploited in the wild and poses a serious risk to servers, desktops and other ...