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by nanoGeek 4107 days ago
Great point. Also, on AWS if you use Amazon Linux you are even more 'locked-in'. Maybe that's the reason many hosting companies give you discounts at the beginning.
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Pretty sure Amazon Linux is just their particular flavor of RHEL, right?
Correct. It doesn't have the exact same default configuration as, say, CentOS, but it's not much different otherwise.