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title: "Amazon's Vega OS: A New OS With React Native Built-In"
description: "Giovanni Laquidara (Amazon) introduces Vega OS, a new lightweight operating system with React Native built-in, designed for high-performance on low-end media devices."
url: https://www.callstack.com/podcasts/amazons-vega-os-a-new-os-with-react-native-built-in
updated: 2026-10-24T08:39:41.695Z
---

# Amazon's Vega OS: A New OS With React Native Built-In

Giovanni Laquidara (Amazon) introduces Vega OS, a new lightweight operating system with React Native built-in, designed for high-performance on low-end media devices.

_Guest: Giovanni Laquidara, Developer Advocate @ Amazon · Host: Łukasz Chludziński, Engineering Manager @ Callstack · Published 2025-11-25 · Duration 03:56 · Category: TV_

Listen: [YouTube](https://youtu.be/cDT4XYIl9Ec)

Amazon has entered the OS space with Vega OS, a new platform in development for over three years. Giovanni Laquidara, Senior Developer Evangelist, explains the architecture and strategy.

Vega OS is a lightweight operating system designed specifically for performance, particularly on low-end devices. The key feature for the developer ecosystem is that it has React Native built in.

Amazon chose this stack because React Native is one of the most-used frameworks for TV and media apps. This approach allows the existing community to build for a new platform using "all the skills that they already have," bypassing a steep learning curve.

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## Learn more about TV

Here's everything we published recently on this topic.

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- [AI-Assisted React Native Migration for TV: Lessons From Zattoo](https://www.callstack.com/blog/ai-assisted-react-native-migration-for-tv-lessons-from-zattoo) (Jun 11 · Article): A practical look at React Native TV migration, based on Zattoo’s experience with shared code, platform differences, and team change.
- [From Native to React Native for TV: The Zattoo Case](https://www.callstack.com/events/from-native-to-react-native-for-tv-the-zattoo-case) (Apr 27 · Webinar): Learn why and how Zattoo moved from native TV apps to React Native, what changed for their team, and what it takes to scale across multiple platforms efficiently.
- [Cross-Platform TV Apps With React Native for tvOS, Android TV, and Tizen](https://www.callstack.com/blog/cross-platform-tv-apps-with-react-native-for-tvos-android-tv-and-tizen) (Oct 3 · Article): Learn why React Native is a powerful choice for TV app development. Discover how it unifies development for tvOS, Android TV, Tizen, and more with a single codebase.
- [Building React Native App for Vega OS](https://www.callstack.com/events/deep-dive-building-react-native-app-for-vega-os) (Oct 2 · Live Stream): React 19.2 brings \<Activity\> and useEffectEvent, new ideas for React state management arrive, and Vega OS debuts as a React Native-powered Linux OS.
- [The Bigger Picture](https://www.callstack.com/events/the-bigger-picture) (May 29 · Talk): React Native lessons from TV that scale: performance, architecture & cross-platform code strategies, beyond mobile, across devices.
- [Multiple TV Platforms, One Codebase: React Native TV App Development](https://www.callstack.com/podcasts/multiple-tv-platforms-one-codebase-react-native-tv-app-development) (Mar 5 · Podcast): Is TV app development is the same as mobile, but bigger? It's not. In this episode, Michael Khirallah (DIRECTV) and Chris Trag (Amazon) will explain why.
- [Developing a React Native TV App](https://www.callstack.com/blog/developing-a-react-native-tv-app) (Dec 6 · Article): Build React Native TV apps. Explore Expo and Bare React Native TV setups, add TV support to existing projects, and structure apps for multi-platform builds.
- [Mastering the Big Screen: React Native for TV](https://www.callstack.com/events/mastering-the-big-screen-react-native) (Oct 2 · Webinar): Tune in to the recording of a webinar we held with with Amazon to explore the best practices of TV app development in React Native.
- [React Native for TV App Development](https://www.callstack.com/podcasts/react-native-for-tv-app-development) (Dec 13 · Podcast): Learn about the current state of the TV development space and the benefits and considerations of applying React Native to it.