Amazon Linux 2 with .NET 8 images

.NET 8 is currently still in "Release Candidate" status (as of the time of this comment, it is available as Release Candidate 1 ). The GA (generally available) release of .NET 8.0 is expected sometime in November of this year, after an additional release candidate (which will be RC2). While I can't share any specific dates, AWS supports LTS (long-term support) releases of .NET sometime after their GA releases. .NET 8 is a LTS release, so an AWS-provided AMI with the .NET 8 runtimes would most likely be released in the months after that (so, perhaps early 2024). You can, of course, create your own AMI as well by installing any version of .NET that you want, including release candidates, onto an EC2 instance, and then creating an AMI from that.