Supported operating systems - Amazon CloudWatch
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Supported operating systems

The CloudWatch agent is supported on the following operating systems:

x86-64 architecture

  • Amazon Linux 2023

  • Amazon Linux 2

  • Ubuntu Server versions 25.04, 24.04, and 22.04

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 10, 9, and 8

  • Debian version 12

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) version 15

  • Oracle Linux versions 9 and 8

  • AlmaLinux versions 10, 9, and 8

  • Rocky Linux versions 10, 9, and 8

  • macOS computers: EC2 M1 Mac1 instances, and computers running macOS 14 (Sonoma), macOS 13 (Ventura), and macOS 12 (Monterey)

  • Windows Server 2025, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2016

  • Windows 11

  • 64-bit Windows 10

ARM64 architecture

  • Amazon Linux 2023

  • Amazon Linux 2

  • Ubuntu Server version 22.04

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 9 and 8

  • Debian version 12

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

  • macOS computers: macOS 14 (Sonoma), macOS 13 (Ventura), and macOS 12 (Monterey)