Operating Systems – Foundations of Modern Computing - Amazon Fire OS

Amazon Fire OS: Android Fork and Device Ecosystem Offer a detailed overview of Fire OS, an Android-based operating system developed by Amazon for its various hardware, including Fire tablets and Fire TV devices. Excerpt explains that Fire OS is a fork of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) that incorporates proprietary Amazon software and is heavily focused on consuming Amazon content and services, while omitting core Google services. The developer documentation confirms this by highlighting that while the OS is based on Android, it substitutes Google services (like Firebase and Google Play) with Amazon counterparts (like A3L Messaging and Amazon Appstore). Provide a history and list of Fire OS versions, detailing the base Android version for each iteration, and note Amazon's plan to eventually migrate certain devices from Android-based Fire OS to a new Linux-based operating system called Vega OS.