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I suppose you are right. If AWS doesn't support STS versions, these will be only applicable to Azure (I know nothing about GCP). It probably makes sense for AWS to stick to LTS versions (I would do the same). But isn't that a choice made by AWS (rather than Microsoft).
But isn’t that a choice made by AWS (rather than Microsoft).
Well it's both, though my comment wasn't to blame Microsoft on this. But LTS is a relative, non-defined term. AWS has a policy to only support LTS versions because they (understandably) don't want to deal with new versions every couple of months. Within Microsoft terminology STS (Standard TS) is 18 months of patching, LTS is 36 months of patching.
So it's just semantics. dotnet-STS is not some goofy hobby language that gets new versions every couple of months. 18 months from a massive team with a massive userbase is pretty long term compared to some other frameworks.
So either AWS could not be so nitpicky about it not being labeled LTS - or Microsoft could just label one version (dotnet7, dotnet9) as LTS, and the 36 months version as Extra-LTS or whatever lol. And all the dotnet versions would fall within the AWS native-support parameters