Deprecated functionality discontinued in AL1, removed in AL2
This section describes functionality that is available in AL1, and is no longer available in AL2.
Note
As part of the maintenance support phase of AL1, some packages had an end-of-life (EOL) date earlier than the EOL of AL1. For more information, see AL1 Package support statements.
Note
Some AL1 functionality was discontinued in earlier releases. For information, see the AL1 Release Notes.
32-bit x86 (i686) AMIs
As part of the 2014.09 release of AL1
If you need to run 32-bit binaries on AL2023, it is possible to use the 32-bit userspace from AL2 inside an AL2 container running on top of AL2023.
aws-apitools-*
replaced by Amazon CLI
Before the release of the Amazon CLI in September 2013, Amazon made a set of command line
utilities available, implemented in Java, which allowed users to make Amazon EC2
API calls. These tools were discontinued in 2015, with the Amazon CLI becoming the preferred way to
interact with Amazon EC2 APIs from the command line.
The set of command line utilities includes the following aws-apitools-*
packages.
-
aws-apitools-as
-
aws-apitools-cfn
-
aws-apitools-common
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aws-apitools-ec2
-
aws-apitools-elb
-
aws-apitools-mon
Upstream support for the aws-apitools-*
packages ended in March of 2017.
Despite the lack of upstream support, Amazon Linux continued to ship some of these command line
utilities, such as aws-apitools-ec2
, to provide backward compatibility for
users. The Amazon CLI is a more robust and complete tool than the aws-apitools-*
packages as it is actively maintained and provides a means of using all Amazon APIs.
The aws-apitools-*
packages were deprecated in March 2017 and will not be receiving further updates. All users of any of these packages should migrate to the Amazon CLI as soon as possible. These
packages are not present in AL2023.
AL1 also provided the aws-apitools-iam
and aws-apitools-rds
packages, which were deprecated in AL1, and are not present in Amazon Linux from AL2 onward.
systemd
replaces upstart
in AL2
AL2 was the first Amazon Linux release to use the systemd
init system, replacing
upstart
in AL1. Any upstart
specific configuration must be
changed as part of the migration from AL1 to a newer version of Amazon Linux. It is not possible to
use systemd
on AL1, so moving from upstart
to systemd
can only be done as part of moving to a more recent major version of Amazon Linux such as AL2 or
AL2023.