Canonical, its distributor, has reported that Ubuntu Kernel is now tuned for better AWS performance. Ubuntu Linux, which is the most popular platform on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud, now performs more efficiently. Canonical, the company’s distributor, announced last week that it had tuned the Ubuntu kernel to run faster on AWS. This includes a 30 percent increase in kernel bootup speeds and other benefits, including a smaller kernel package. According to the London-based company, it has been working with AWS, which has provided Ubuntu for years in its many Linux distros, to improve “the most popular cloud OS on the most popular public cloud.” This claim is supported by numerous studies that name AWS the No. According to statistics from The Cloud Market, which list the breakdown of platform distributions on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Web service (Amazon EC2), AWS is the No. 1 cloud provider. Cloud Market data shows that Ubuntu is the underlying platform of 56.4 percent (371,132) images on EC2. According to AWS, Ubuntu is the underlying platform for 56.4 percent of the 371,132 images available on EC2. Ubuntu is a popular platform for Linux stacks. AWS has hundreds upon hundreds of application stacks, and application servers that are based on Ubuntu. According to Canonical, developers and others who use the hundreds of application servers and stacks based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS that are available via an EC2 Quickstart and/or the AWS Marketplace will experience improved performance as of March 29. Canonical’s Udinachmany announced that the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release will now be available with an AWS-tuned Ubuntu Linux kernel in a blog post. Nachmany highlighted the following highlights of the AWS -tuned kernel. – Bounce House Rentals Plano

A 15 percent smaller kernel package can provide up to 30 percent faster kernel boot speed.
Full support for Elastic network adapter (ENA), including driver version 1.1.2. Supports up to 20 Gbps network speeds for ENA instances types (currently I3, R4, X1, and M4.16xlarge).
Improved i3 instance support with NVMe storage drives under high IO loads.
Increased I/O performance in i3 instances
Improved instance initialization using NVMe-backed storage disks
To eliminate deadlocks on certain instance types, disable CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
Resolved CPU Throttling with AWS micro instances

It is available in a free version and three for-pay options. These options provide different levels of support and other services. Nachmany stated that instances running the AWS-tuned Ubuntu core will be supported by the company’s Ubuntu Advantage service. However, they won’t be able to support the Canonical Livepatch Service which allows developers to apply critical kernel patches without the need for a reboot. Nachmany stated that “investigation is underway in order to evaluate delivery of the service for users of AWS-tuned Ubuntu Kernel.” Livepatch can still be used if you prefer stability to speed. You can also revert to the old kernel. Developers can explore the details of the version 4.4.0-1013.22 kernel that underpins the AWS-tuned Ubuntu distribution at the linux-aws package site. AWS supports many other Linux distros such as CentOS, Debian Kali, Red Hat, Red Hat, and SUSE.