This story began back in 2012, when Matthew Miller, then the new leader of the Fedora project, was given a seemingly simple task: to provide AWS cloud clients with the ability to easily deploy Fedora-based servers.
The technical problem of assembling images suitable for use in cloud infrastructure was solved quite quickly. So both qcow and AMI images have been published on a separate page for quite some time now https://alt.fedoraproject.org/cloud/
But the next step, publishing the image in the official βapp storeβ AWS Marketplace, turned out to be not so simple due to many legal subtleties regarding trademarks, licenses and agreements.
It took several years of effort and persuasion from Amazon engineers, among others, to get the company's lawyers to reconsider the publication policy for Open Source projects.
As in case with Lenovo, a mandatory requirement on the part of the Fedora project was the publication of images as is, without any modifications on the part of the vendor.
And finally today the goal was 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 publishing process.
Source: linux.org.ru