May 21, 2025 - Update Jan 2, 2024 – The Amazon Linux AMI (also called Amazon Linux 1) reached its end of life on December 31, 2023. Amazon Linux AMI will no longer receive any security updates or bug fixes. We encourage customers to upgrade their applications to use Amazon Linux 2023, which includes long ...

The Amazon Linux AMI (also called Amazon Linux 1) reached its end of life on December 31, 2023. AWS Batch has ended support for Amazon Linux AMI as it will not receive any security updates or bug fixes starting January 1, 2024. For more information about the Amazon Linux end-of-life, see

2 weeks ago - The original Amazon Linux AMI is now in a maintenance support phase with a limited set of packages still being supported.

June 27, 2025 - Update June 25, 2025 – The ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMI (also called Amazon Linux 1) will reach its end of life on September 15, 2025. We encourage customers to upgrade their applications to use Amazon Linux 2023, which includes long term support through 2028.

3 weeks ago - AWS will provide critical and important ... to the Linux kernel in the AMI, as well as all but the deprecated userspace packages. During the maintenance window any package -outside of the low-level userspace libraries- that have reached end-of-life in their upstream sources will no longer receive updates. MySQL 5.1 PHP 5.3 PHP ...

3 weeks ago - The Amazon Linux AMI (also called Amazon Linux 1) reached its end of life on December 31, 2023. Amazon Linux AMI will not receive any security updates or bug fixes starting January 1, 2024.

As of December 31, 2023, the Amazon Linux AMI (also known as Amazon Linux 1) has reached its end of life.

January 9, 2024 - I understand that AL1 is EOL [1], and I understand instance retirement mechanism [2]. But I would like to know what happens when AWS decides to…

AL1 reached its end-of-life (EOL) on December 31, 2023 and will not receive any security updates or bug fixes starting January 1, 2024. For more information about AL1 EOL and maintenance support, see the blog post Update on Amazon Linux AMI end-of-life

Amazon Linux end of life dates — 1 supported, 1 expiring, 15 EOL releases. Amazon Linux 2023.12.20260611.0 is the latest supported version (June 2026). 2 support ending 2026-06-30. Covers EOL, EOS and EOSL dates.

These support statements cover every binary RPM in the Amazon Linux 1 distribution, and when the End of Life is for that package

January 18, 2023 - On the 30th June 2023, Amazon Linux 1 goes End of Life (EOL). Amazon has also released Amazon Linux 2022.

July 22, 2024 - Amazon Linux 1 goes End of Life (EOL). Amazon has also released Amazon Linux 2022.

June 3, 2026 - We have put together a new audit report that list all machines that are running Amazon Linux along with their version number and the days remaining until end of life. This way you have a quick and easy overview of which assets still need to be updated.

Describes Amazon Linux and the end-of-life for AL1.

July 18, 2023 - Update on Amazon Linux AMI end-of-life: AWS has ended Standard support for the Amazon Linux AMI ended on December 31, 2020. The Amazon Linux AMI is now in a…

The original Amazon Linux AMI is now in a maintenance support phase with a limited set of packages still being supported.

November 4, 2025 - AWS opened most packages to other distros as well, so it’s possible to install some packages to non-Amazon Linux distros as well including some restrictions (e.g Lustre). Kernels could be upgraded using mainline builds from ELRepo or other Distros (here be dragons!) To answer the question: EC2 support is given only as far to the point when Alma LTS was released or when service releases do come with back-ported features (which usually doesn’t happen). New features or up-to-date EC2 support probably won’t come in. https://github.com/amazonlinux/amazon-linux-2023/issues

May 9, 2019 - Is this a BUG REPORT or a FEATURE REQUEST? (choose one): Feature request Detail /ref #112 the decision was made not to support AL1, but AL1 is still receiving updates until July 2020, when they'll be pushing people to AL2. In the meantim...