Windows Server 2012 R2 platform branches retired - AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Windows Server 2012 R2 platform branches retired

Elastic Beanstalk retired Windows Server 2012 R2 platform branches on December 4, 2023, and made the AMIs associated with those platforms private on April 10, 2024. This action prevents the launching of instances in your Windows Server 2012 environments that use the default Beanstalk AMI.

If you have any environments running on retired Windows platform branches we recommend that you migrate them to one of the following Windows Server platforms, which are current and fully supported:

  • Windows Server 2022 with IIS 10.0 version 2.x

  • Windows Server 2019 with IIS 10.0 version 2.x

For full migration considerations, see Migrating from earlier major versions of the Windows server platform.

For more information about platform deprecation, see Elastic Beanstalk platform support policy.

Note

If you cannot migrate to these fully supported platforms, we recommend using custom AMIs created with Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2012 R2 Core AMIs as the base image, if you have not done so already. For detailed instructions, see Preserving access to an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for a retired platform. Reach out to the AWS Support Center if you need temporary access to an AMI while you perform one of these migration steps.