Comment by talawahtech

Cloud specific features and optimizations, particularly geared toward AWS hardware. Also a combination of a 2 year release cadence and 5 years of Amazon backed of support for each release.

Performance Optimizations: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/performance-opti...

Release Cadence: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/release-cadence....

Kernel Live Patching: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/live-patching.ht...

Cloud Init: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/cloud-init.html