Supported operating systems and machine types - Amazon Systems Manager
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Supported operating systems and machine types

Before working with Systems Manager, verify that your operating system (OS), OS version, and machine type are supported as managed nodes.

Supported operating systems for Systems Manager

The following sections list the OSs and OS versions supported by Systems Manager.

Note

If you plan to manage and configure Amazon IoT Greengrass core devices by using Systems Manager, those devices must meet the requirements for Amazon IoT Greengrass. For more information, see Setting up Amazon IoT Greengrass core devices in the Amazon IoT Greengrass Version 2 Developer Guide.

If you plan to manage and configure Amazon IoT and non-Amazon edge devices, those devices must meet the requirements listed here and be configured as on-premises managed nodes for Systems Manager. For more information, see Setting up Amazon Systems Manager for edge devices.

Important

Patch Manager, a capability of Systems Manager, might not support all the OS versions listed in this topic. For a list of OS versions supported by Patch Manager, see Patch Manager prerequisites.

Linux

AlmaLinux
Versions x86 x86_64 ARM64
8.3–8.7; 9.0–9.2 ✓ ✓
Amazon Linux
Versions x86 x86_64 ARM64
2012.03–2018.03 ✓ ✓
Note

Beginning with version 2015.03, Amazon Linux is released in x86_64 versions.

Amazon Linux 2
Versions x86 x86_64 ARM64
2.0 and all later versions ✓ ✓
Amazon Linux 2023
Versions x86 x86_64 ARM64

2023.0.20230315.0 and all later versions

 ✓ ✓
Bottlerocket
Versions x86_64 ARM64
1.0.0 and all later versions ✓ ✓
CentOS
Versions x86 x86_64 ARM64
6.x¹ ✓ ✓
7.1 and later 7.x versions ✓ ✓
8.0–8.5 ✓ ✓

¹ To use these versions, you must use a 3.0.x version of the SSM Agent. We recommend using the latest available 3.0.x version of the SSM Agent. Later SSM Agent versions (3.1 or later) are not supported.

CentOS Stream
Versions x86 x86_64 ARM64
8 ✓ ✓
Debian Server
Versions x86 x86_64 ARM64
Jessie (8) ✓
Stretch (9) ✓ ✓
Buster (10) ✓ ✓
Bullseye (11) ✓ ✓
Oracle Linux
Versions x86 x86_64 ARM64
7.5–7.8 ✓
8.1–8.7 ✓
9.0–9.2 ✓
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Versions x86 x86_64 ARM64
6.x¹ ✓ ✓
7.0–7.5 ✓
7.6–8.8 ✓ ✓
9.0–9.2 ✓ ✓

¹ To use these versions, you must use a 3.0.x version of the SSM Agent. We recommend using the latest available 3.0.x version of the SSM Agent. Later SSM Agent versions (3.1 or later) are not supported.

Rocky Linux
Versions x86 x86_64 ARM64
8.4–8.7 ✓ ✓
9.0–9.2 ✓ ✓
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
Versions x86 x86_64 ARM64
12 and later 12.x versions ✓
15 and later 15.x versions ✓ ✓
Ubuntu Server
Versions x86 x86_64 ARM64
12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS ✓ ✓
16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS ✓ ✓
20.04 LTS and 20.10 STR ✓ ✓
22.04 LTS ✓ ✓

macOS (Amazon EC2 instances only)

Version x86 x86_64 ARM64
10.14.x (Mojave) ✓
10.15.x (Catalina) ✓
11.x (BigSur) ✓ ✓
12.x (Monterey) ✓ ✓
Note

macOS is not supported in all Amazon Web Services Regions. For more information about Amazon EC2 support for macOS, see Amazon EC2 Mac instances in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.

Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian)

Version ARM32
8 (Jessie) ✓
9 (Stretch) ✓
More info

Windows Server

SSM Agent requires Windows PowerShell 3.0 or later to run certain Amazon Systems Manager documents (SSM documents) on Windows Server instances (for example, the legacy AWS-ApplyPatchBaseline document). Verify that your Windows Server instances are running Windows Management Framework 3.0 or later. This framework includes Windows PowerShell. For more information, see Windows Management Framework 3.0.

Version x86 x86_64 ARM64
2008¹ ✓ ✓
2008 R2¹ ✓
2012 and 2012 R2 ✓
2016 ✓
2019 ✓
2022 ✓

¹ As of January 14, 2020, Windows Server 2008 is no longer supported for feature or security updates from Microsoft. Legacy Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 still include version 2 of SSM Agent preinstalled, but Systems Manager no longer officially supports 2008 versions and no longer updates the agent for these versions of Windows Server. In addition, SSM Agent version 3 might not be compatible with all operations on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2. The final officially supported version of SSM Agent for Windows Server 2008 versions is 2.3.1644.0.

Supported machine types in hybrid and multicloud environments

Systems Manager supports a number of machine types as managed nodes. A managed node is any machine configured to work with Systems Manager.

This user guide uses the term hybrid and multicloud to refer to an environment that contains any combination of the following machine types:

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances

  • Servers on your own premises (on-premises servers)

  • Amazon IoT Greengrass core devices

  • Amazon IoT and non-Amazon edge devices

  • Virtual machines (VMs), including VMs in other cloud environments

For information about Amazon support for hybrid and multicloud environments, see Amazon Solutions for Hybrid and Multicloud.