Amazon Linux 2 End of Life Migration

Hi There

You wont be able to directly migrate your instances from AL2 to RHEL. You will need to do a comparison and determine if your application will run on RHEL, then deploy new EC2 instances, and finally deploy your application.

That said, you can use a combination of services like CloudFormation, Systems Manager, and Developer Tools like CodePipeline to automate as much as possible.

Also note, AL2 is replaced with AL2023, you can take a look at the comparison here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/compare-with-al2.html. However, there is not a direct upgrade path here either, see https://github.com/amazonlinux/amazon-linux-2023/issues/456

EOL is pushed to June 2026. Please check the amended FAQ