diff --git a/plugins/guests/amazon/guest.rb b/plugins/guests/amazon/guest.rb
index 5d36153c4..92ea236b8 100644
--- a/plugins/guests/amazon/guest.rb
+++ b/plugins/guests/amazon/guest.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module VagrantPlugins
   module GuestAmazon
     class Guest < Vagrant.plugin("2", :guest)
       def detect?(machine)
-        machine.communicate.test("grep 'Amazon Linux AMI' /etc/os-release")
+        machine.communicate.test("grep 'Amazon Linux' /etc/os-release")
       end
     end
   end