Vertica 9.0.0-1 and later versions support Amazon Linux 2017.09.
To run Vertica on Amazon Linux 2017.09, you must use Vertica 9.0.0-1 or later. There are required enhancements in this hotfix for running Vertica on Amazon Linux 2017.09.
To use Vertica 9.0.0-1 or later, you must use RHEL/CentOS rpms for Amazon Linux 2017.09.
For Amazon Linux only, Vertica 9.0.0-1 supports i3.2xlarge and i3.4xlarge instances in addition to the standard supported instances. See Supported Instance Types.
There is no AMI based on Amazon Linux.
You can only deploy Amazon Linux 2017.09 in AWS.
