Amazon Linux 2 is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It is designed to provide a stable, secure, and high-performance execution environment for applications running on Amazon EC2. It also includes software packages that easily integrate with Amazon Web Services, including launch configuration tools and many popular Amazon Web Services libraries and tools. Amazon Linux 2 provides Amazon EC2 users with no additional software fees and a five-year support service. It provides a Linux kernel 5.10 with optimized performance for Amazon EC2, systemd 219, GCC 7.3, Glibc 2.26, Binutils 2.29.1, and the latest software packages through additional sections.