Is Amazon Linux based on centos?

If it is, how is it going to be effected by the RHEL announcement which effectively kills centos?

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no, both AL2 and AL2023 are an Amazon remix distro. I cant find it now, but there was a line that said its was a diff of the last 3 versions of Fedora ( I think)
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/relationship-to-fedora.html
  
  AL2 was somewhat based on centos 7 since many things in epel work fine on it. The amazon linux extras tool can even enable the epel repos for you. A lot or all of the things dependent on python 3 in epel don't seem to work well though as AL2 has a newer python 3 version than centos 7.
No, not directly.