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<div>Amazon offers one flavor of Linux which they distribute, yes. They're also perfectly happy to host other editions, including RHEL with the license fees passed on to you.</div>
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<div>Amazon's own AMI is not a supported platform at this time.</div>
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<div><a href="https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPLinuxInstall">https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPLinuxInstall</a></div>
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<div>The following advice from that article:</div>
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Under no circumstances should you attempt to install a set of RPM packages built for/with a different OS or version from your own. This will usually lead to unpredictable problems and support issues. Instead, just rebuild the SRPM packages and then you can
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<div>applies.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Nate.</div>
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