Amazon Linux 2 Is EOL: a Migration Checklist for Batch, ECS, and Lambda
The security scan flagged eleven CVEs on the ECS instances. There was nothing to patch with—Amazon Linux 2 went end-of-life on June 30, 2026, and the fixes simply stopped coming. The AMI had been “temporary” for two years.
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This post is for teams running compute-heavy workloads on AWS Batch with EC2—genomics pipelines, media processing, ETL, simulations—not for “hello world” Fargate tutorials. It assumes you already have a container image, a VPC, and a reason to use Batch instead of ECS or Lambda.
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