“This is a minimal CentOS Stream 8.0 image, primarily designed as a versatile foundation for building and testing various applications. The image contains just the essential packages needed to operate efficiently within AWS, enabling the setup of an SSH Server and allowing user logins (via the ‘cloud-user’ SSH user with sudo capability). CentOS is a Linux distribution recognized for providing a community-driven, free computing platform that maintains functional compatibility with its upstream counterpart, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”