Amazon Linux 2023 Is Running Well, Boosting EC2 Performance Over Amazon Linux 2
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 17 March 2023 at 10:30 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 9 Comments.
The newer compiler toolchain of Amazon Linux 2023 can mean slower build times though. From GCC 7 to GCC 11 are many new optimizations and other compiler features that increase build times in exchange for faster run-time performance, better code warnings/errors, and similar benefits.
The shift from using OpenSSL 1.0.2 by default to now using the OpenSSL 3.0 series meant some very nice speed-ups.
Workloads like PostgreSQL and Memcached didn't see much change out of this Amazon Linux upgrade on AWS Graviton3.