Amazon Linux 2 Benchmarks, 6-Way Linux OS EC2 Compute Cloud Comparison Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 15 December 2017 at 02:00 PM EST. Page 1 of 6. Add A Comment. With Amazon AWS this week having released Amazon Linux 2 LTS I was excited to put this updated cloud-focused operating system through some performance tests to see how it stacks up with the more well known Linux dist