AL2023 vs. AL2: less disk space with ext4?

We started migrating from Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) to Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) a month ago. While testing workloads on AL2023 in the pre-production environment, I noticed slightly higher disk usage compared to the same workload on AL2. In this post, I'll share my investigation. AL2023 Has Less Free Disk Space with ext4, Compared to AL2 Although disk usage metrics increased on AL2023, the "Used"…