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AWS announces Supplementary Packages for Amazon Linux

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This article announces the general availability of Supplementary Packages for Amazon Linux (SPAL), a new repository providing pre-built EPEL9 packages for Amazon Linux 2023.

  • SPAL offers thousands of pre-built packages compatible with Amazon Linux 2023
  • Eliminates need to build packages from source code, reducing deployment times
  • Packages derived from community-maintained EPEL9 project with AWS security patches
  • Available in all AWS Commercial Regions, GovCloud (US), and China
  • Particularly valuable for DevOps engineers and system administrators managing production workloads

SPAL streamlines development workflows by providing ready-to-use packages, allowing teams to focus on application development rather than package compilation.



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