EC2 Windows Utility Driver version history - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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EC2 Windows Utility Driver version history

The following table shows which EC2WinUtil drivers run on each version of Windows Server on Amazon EC2. Earlier versions of the operating system use the driver that's preinstalled on Amazon Windows Server AMIs that the instance launched from. AMIs that are shared with you or that you subscribe to through Amazon Web Services Marketplace don't have the driver preinstalled.

Windows Server version EC2WinUtil driver version
Windows Server 2025 latest version
Windows Server 2022 latest version
Windows Server 2019 latest version
Windows Server 2016 latest version
Note

Prior to driver version 3.0.0, the EC2WinUtil driver was not available to download for manual installation. Earlier versions were only available as preinstalled drivers for Amazon Windows AMIs.

The following table describes the released versions of the EC2WinUtil driver.

Package download link Driver version Details Release date
The driver is not available for download in this Region. However, Amazon Windows AMIs do still include the preinstalled EC2WinUtil driver. 3.0.0 Modernized the driver for Windows 10 and added support for installation as a primitive driver. June 13, 2024
Download not available for this version. 2.0.0 Added support for output on MMIO serial ports for metal instance types. Also improved crash parsing and updated the output format. August 23, 2018
Download not available for this version. 1.0.1

Changed the driver name to EC2WinUtil due to a namespace conflict with Amazon Inspector. Several bug fixes are included.

 March 1, 2018
Download not available for this version. 1.0.0

Initial release. The driver was initially called AwsAgent.

 November 28, 2017