Operating Systems used by AWS RDS
amazon-rds
Solution
To check the underlying operating of your MySQL DB instance on AWS RDS, you can use the following command:
mysql> SHOW variables LIKE '%version%';
Result:
+-------------------------+------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+-------------------------+------------------------------+
| innodb_version | 5.6.39 |
| protocol_version | 10 |
| slave_type_conversions | |
| version | 5.6.39-log |
| version_comment | MySQL Community Server (GPL) |
| version_compile_machine | x86_64 |
| version_compile_os | Linux |
+-------------------------+------------------------------+
7 rows in set (0.01 sec)
Problem
What operating systems does Amazon RDS use. While I understand that when using RDS we are just exposed to a endpoint and internally the database we use might be supported by multiple systems, I would like to know what is the OS used by those systems.