amazonlinux/amazon-linux-2023
- Total stars
- 629
- Today · UTC
- +0since 00:01 UTC
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About the project
AWS's Fedora-based Linux distribution for running cloud applications on EC2, offering long-term support, quarterly updates, repository version locking and a hardened security posture. Available at no charge as AMIs for x86_64 and arm64.
Useful for
- Launch an EC2 instance with the al2023-ami-kernel-6.1 AMI via console or CloudFormation
- Lock the AL2023 repository version to control when updates are applied
- Set SELinux to enforcing and configure crypto policy at instance boot
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 22, 2026, 03:36 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-22 (UTC), 00:01–03:29: 629 → 629 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +4 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Hacker News: “AWS rates PHP RCE as Important so Amazon Linux 2023 patch may take 20 days” — 74 points, 6 h ago.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 6. +500% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 15, 2026
- 0
- October 16, 2026
- 0
- October 17, 2026
- 0
- October 18, 2026
- 0
- October 19, 2026
- 0
- October 20, 2026
- 0
- October 21, 2026
- 6
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 6 · October 21, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 22, 2026, 03:36 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 629
- Today
- +0 stars measured 2026-10-22, 00:01–03:29 UTC, ≈ 4 by evening
- Forks
- 49
- Issues and pull requests
- 1,086
- Watchers
- 58
- Language
- HTML
- Created
- November 12, 2021
- Last push
- August 13, 2025
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- AWS rates PHP RCE as Important so Amazon Linux 2023 patch may take 20 days74 points, October 21, 2026
Spotted in
- October 21, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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