This story began back in 2012, when Matthew Miller, then a new leader of the Fedora project, was given a seemingly simple task: to enable AWS cloud customers to easily deploy servers based on Fedora.
The technical challenge of building images suitable for use in cloud infrastructure was resolved quite quickly. Both qcow and AMI images have been published on a separate page for quite some time now. https://alt.fedoraproject.org/cloud/
However, the next step—publishing the image in the official 'app store' AWS Marketplace—was not so simple due to numerous legal intricacies surrounding trademarks, licenses, and agreements.
It took several years of effort and persuasion from, among others, Amazon engineers, for the company's lawyers to reconsider the publication policy for Open Source projects.
Like in in the case of Lenovo, a mandatory requirement from the Fedora project was the publication of images as-is, without any modifications from the vendor.
And finally, today the goal has been achieved:
Fedora images, built and signed by developers, have appeared in the AWS Marketplace:
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B08LZY538M
Other Linux distributions can now take advantage of the new image publication process.
Source: linux.org.ru
