CentOS Stream 8 Minimal (CentOS 8) on AWS EC2

Overview:

Ready to use minimal CentOS Stream 8 AMI. Login using 'centos' user and ssh public key authentication. Root partition and filesystem extends automatically during boot if instance volume is bigger than the default 8 GiB one. Cloud-init included. ENA enabled. CentOS8 Stream security updates available at the release date are included as well.

Highlights:

This image is built using CentOS 8 Stream 'Minimal Install' group of packages. It contains just enough packages to run within AWS, bring up an SSH Server and allow users to login. Cloud-init is included as well. Configured to use the official CentOS Stream 8 vault repositories.
In this CentOS Stream 8 AMI, root partition and filesystem extends automatically during boot if instance volume is bigger than the default 8 GiB one. Using GPT (GUID Partition Table) that allows instance volumes bigger than 2 TiB.
Within all our CentOS8 Stream images, the Enhanced Networking using ENA (i.e., Elastic Network Adapter) is enabled. SELinux is enabled as well. All security updates available at the release date are included.

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