Supported Amazon Linux Features

This table lists the availability of various features on Amazon Linux clients.

The operating system you run on a client is supported by the organization that supplies the operating system. Amazon Linux is supported by Amazon.

The icons in this table indicate:

the feature is available on both Salt and traditional clients
the feature is not available
the feature is under consideration, and may or may not be made available at a later date
Traditional the feature is supported only on traditional clients
Salt the feature is supported only on Salt clients

Table 1. Supported Features on Amazon Linux Operating Systems
Feature	Amazon Linux 2
Client	Salt
Operating system packages	Salt
Registration	Salt
Install packages	Salt
Apply patches (requires CVE ID)	Salt
Remote commands	Salt
System package states	Salt
System custom states	Salt
Group custom states	Salt
Organization custom states	Salt
System set manager (SSM)	Salt
Product migration	N/A
Basic Virtual Guest Management
Advanced Virtual Guest Management
Virtual Guest Installation (Kickstart), as Host OS
Virtual Guest Installation (image template), as Host OS
System deployment (PXE/Kickstart)
System redeployment (Kickstart)
Contact methods	Salt: ZeroMQ, Salt-SSH
Works with SUSE Manager Proxy	Salt
Action chains	Salt
Staging (pre-download of packages)	Salt
Duplicate package reporting	Salt
CVE auditing (requires CVE ID)	Salt
SCAP auditing	Salt
Package verification
Package locking
System locking
Maintenance Windows
System snapshot
Configuration file management	Salt
Snapshots and profiles	Salt: Profiles supported, Sync not supported
Power management
Monitoring server
Monitored clients	Salt
Docker buildhost	Salt
Build Docker image with OS	Salt
Kiwi buildhost	Salt
Build Kiwi image with OS	Salt
Recurring Actions	Salt
AppStreams	N/A
Yomi	N/A

Virtual Guest Management:

In this table, virtual guest management is split into basic and advanced.

Basic virtual guest management includes listing VMs, slow refresh, VM lifecycle actions (start, stop, resume, pause), and modifying VM vCPU and Memory.

Advanced virtual guest management includes all features of Basic virtual guest management plus fast refresh, VM lifecycle actions (delete, reset, power off), modifying VM disk, network, graphical display, and graphical display configuration.

The traditional stack is available on Amazon Linux but it is unsupported.