AL2023 on Amazon EC2

To Nha Notes | Feb. 7, 2025, 2:52 p.m.

Use one of the following procedures to launch an Amazon EC2 instance with an AL2023 AMI. You can choose either the standard AMI, or the minimal AMI. For more information about the differences between the standard AMI and the minimal AMI, see Comparing AL2023 standard (default) and minimal AMIs.

Topics

• Launching AL2023 using the Amazon EC2 console
• Launching AL2023 using the SSM parameter and AWS CLI
• Launching the latest AL2023 AMI using AWS CloudFormation
• Launching AL2023 using a specific AMI ID
• AL2023 AMI deprecation and life cycle
• Connecting to AL2023 instances
• Comparing AL2023 standard and minimal AMIs

Launching AL2023 using the Amazon EC2 console

Use the Amazon EC2 console to launch an AL2023 AMI.

Note

For Arm-based instances, AL2023 only supports instance types that use Graviton2 or later processors. AL2023 doesn't support A1 instances.

Use the following steps to launch an Amazon EC2 instance with an AL2023 AMI from the Amazon EC2 console.

To launch an EC2 instance with an AL2023 AMI

1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose AMIs.

3. From the filter drop-down, choose Public images.

4. In the search field, enter al2023-ami.

   Note

   Make sure that amazon appears in the Owner alias column.

5. Select an image from the list. Under Source, you can determine whether the AMI is standard or minimal. An AL2023 AMI name can be interpreted by using this format:

   'al2023-[ami || ami-minimal]-2023.0.[release build date].[build number]-kernel-[version number]-[arm64 || x86_64]'

6. The following image shows a partial list of AL2023 AMIs.

   

References

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/ec2.html