haha, small world! My Irish boss years ago said there is a Bally Cogley (Town Cogley) in Ireland, consisting of a bus stop, a church and a pub!
Hard to say which is better. You can create an install script like this:
… for any *nix-based OS. I have one for my Macs. The benefit is, as soon as there’s a release, you can run your script and get to it. I keep mine in my zsh functions in ~/.zshrc.
Amazon Linux is in the Red Hat family, meaning yum or snap package manager installs. Someone is maintaining the snap install as far as I remember; see the release pages. There’s always a delay for the snaps though, because someone has to build it after the release. I guess a benefit to using Amazon Linux is that its efficient & cheaper to run on AWS, and, more tightly coupled with AWS services. Usage would be like RHEL or Centos.