# amazonlinux/amazon-linux-2023

> 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.

- Magnitude: 2.6 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 630 total · +1 star measured 2026-10-22, 00:01–04:11 UTC, ≈ 6 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: DevOps & infrastructure · Language: HTML · Created: 2021-11-12 · Last push: 2025-08-13
- GitHub: https://github.com/amazonlinux/amazon-linux-2023 · Homepage: https://aws.amazon.com/linux/amazon-linux-2023/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/amazonlinux/amazon-linux-2023

## 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

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-22 (UTC), 00:01–04:11: 629 → 630 stars (+1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +7 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, 7 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 49
- Issues and pull requests: 1,086
- Watchers: 58
- Average over the last week: 2 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-23 … 2026-10-22: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 7, 1

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

10-21 1.4, 10-22 2.6

## Hacker News

- AWS rates PHP RCE as Important so Amazon Linux 2023 patch may take 20 days — 74 points, 17 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50187708

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-22 04:18 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.