AMI and Container Image changes - Amazon Linux 2023
This documentation is a draft for private preview for regions in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Documentation content will continue to evolve. Published: January 2, 2026.

AMI and Container Image changes

There have been some changes to the packages included in AMIs and containers.

Topics

    Amazon Linux 2023 introduces a AL2023 Minimal container image, and support for building Building bare-bones AL2023 container images. For more information, see Using AL2023 in containers.