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Doesn't Amazon just use RHEL as base for their image already?
I was under the impression that like Oracle, they used RHEL sources as their base (from git.centos.org). But it appears that they now (as of 2022) only use fedora sources and maintain other sources on top of fedora, so they've deviated from RHEL compatibility as far as I can tell.
I thought amazon linux was loosely based on fedora