You can get the Amazon Linux OS version from /etc/os-release.
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## In case of Amazon 1 cat /etc/os-release ## NAME="Amazon Linux AMI" ## VERSION="2018.03" ## ID="amzn" ## ID_LIKE="rhel fedora" ## VERSION_ID="2018.03" ## PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux AMI 2018.03" ## ANSI_COLOR="0;33" ## CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2018.03:ga" ## HOME_URL="http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/" ## In case of Amazon 2 cat /etc/os-release ## Amazon Linux release 2.0 (2017.12) LTS Release Candidate ## [ec2-user@fresh-amazon-host ~]$ cat /etc/os-release ## NAME="Amazon Linux" ## VERSION="2.0 (2017.12)" ## ID="amzn" ## ID_LIKE="centos rhel fedora" ## VERSION_ID="2.0" ## PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux 2.0 (2017.12) LTS Release Candidate" ## ANSI_COLOR="0;33" ## CPE_NAME="cpe:2.3:o:amazon:amazon_linux:2.0" ## HOME_URL="https://amazonlinux.com/" |