Highly experimental Amazon Linux bootstrapping
diff --git a/bootstrap/_rpm_common.sh b/bootstrap/_rpm_common.sh
index 26b91b8c422..9f670da6e87 100755
--- a/bootstrap/_rpm_common.sh
+++ b/bootstrap/_rpm_common.sh
@@ -16,10 +16,12 @@ else
 fi
 
 # "git-core" seems to be an alias for "git" in CentOS 7 (yum search fails)
+# Amazon Linux 2015.03 needs python27-virtualenv rather than python-virtualenv
 $tool install -y \
   git-core \
   python \
   python-devel \
+  python27-virtualenv \
   python-virtualenv \
   gcc \
   dialog \
diff --git a/letsencrypt-auto b/letsencrypt-auto
index bb2dd9926bb..5a1c9b0339f 100755
--- a/letsencrypt-auto
+++ b/letsencrypt-auto
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ then
     ExperimentalBootstrap "FreeBSD" freebsd.sh "$SUDO"
   elif uname | grep -iq Darwin ; then
     ExperimentalBootstrap "Mac OS X" mac.sh
+  elif grep -iq "Amazon Linux" /etc/issue ; then
+    ExperimentalBootstrap "Amazon Linux" amazon_linux.sh
   else
     echo "Sorry, I don't know how to bootstrap Let's Encrypt on your operating system!"
     echo

(Not to be merged until after **1.0 for launch** is done, and after testing for impact on other RedHat based platforms).
Closes: #1458 
