This image is meant to be used in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), a popular cloud computing platform. It conforms to Amazon’s guidelines and requirements for shared AMIs.
EC2 uses Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) internally, which can only be created inside EC2. An image in a standard format (ova, vmdk, vhd/x, or raw) must be imported from S3 storage. osbuild-composer generates this image type in the RAW format for the best compatibility with AWS.
This image is available for x86_64 and aarch64, because those are the only
architectures available in EC2.
EC2 doesn't require any specialized firmware. Thus, in order to keep the
resulting image size small, all -firmware packages are excluded. An exception
is the linux-firmware package, which cannot be excluded because the kernel
package depends on it.
dracut-config-rescue is excluded from the image, because the boot loader
entry it provides is broken.
The most common way to consume official Red Hat content using this type of image is via Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI). RHUI is used mostly for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) content, including some of its extensions (e.g. for SAP). To access any more specific Red Hat content, one has to use Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM) (Red Hat Satellite / Red Hat CDN).