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They yanked my favorite part of AL2, the extras repo with new packages from EPEL and Fedora.

SELinux by default is a welcome addition but I'm concerned it will break many apps.

Interesting. For me the amazon-linux-extras part was the most annoying part. Using automation tooling (Terraform for instance deployment and Ansible in User Data of instances) it was so annoying to work with. Fallback to the shell executor in Ansible to get something installed is a pita.

Also good that they finally get out of a python2 default Amazon Linux - only 2.5 years after it's EOL.

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