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 AWS IoT Greengrass core devices by using Systems Manager, those devices must meet the requirements for AWS IoT Greengrass. For more information, see Setting up AWS IoT Greengrass core devices in the AWS IoT Greengrass Version 2 Developer Guide.

If you plan to manage and configure AWS IoT and non-AWS 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 Managing edge devices with Systems Manager.

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.

Operating system types

• Linux
• macOS (Amazon EC2 instances only)
• Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian)
• Windows Server

Linux

AlmaLinux
Versions	x86	x86_64	ARM64
8.3–8.10		✓	✓
9.0–9.4		✓	✓

Amazon Linux 1
Versions	x86	x86_64	ARM64
2012.03–2018.03	✓	✓

Note

Beginning with version 2015.03, Amazon Linux 1 was released in x86_64 versions.

Amazon Linux 1 reached the end of its standard support on December 31, 2020, and reached end of life on December 31, 2023, as announced in Update on Amazon Linux AMI end-of-life on the AWS News Blog. AWS no longer provides Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for this operating system. AWS Systems Manager continues to provide support, however, for existing Amazon Linux 1 instances.

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)		✓	✓
Bookworm (12)		✓	✓

Oracle Linux
Versions	x86	x86_64	ARM64
7.5–7.8		✓
8.1–8.9		✓
9.0–9.3		✓

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Versions	x86	x86_64	ARM64
6.x¹	✓	✓
7.0–7.5		✓
7.6–8.10		✓	✓
9.0–9.4		✓	✓

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
8.4–8.10		✓	✓
9.0–9.4		✓	✓

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		✓	✓
23.04		✓	✓

macOS (Amazon EC2 instances only)

Version	x86	x86_64	Mac with Apple silicon
10.14.x (Mojave)		✓
10.15.x (Catalina)		✓
11.x (Big Sur)		✓	✓
12.x (Monterey)		✓	✓
13.x (Ventura)		✓	✓
14.x (Sonoma)		✓	✓

Note

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

Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian)

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

More info

• Manage Raspberry Pi devices using AWS Systems Manager

Windows Server

SSM Agent requires Windows PowerShell 3.0 or later to run certain AWS 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 R2²		✓
2016		✓
2019		✓
2022		✓

¹ Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 support: 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.

² Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 support: Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 reached end of support on October 10, 2023. To use SSM Agent with these versions, we recommend using Extended Security Updates (ESUs) from Microsoft. For more information, see Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 reaching end of support on the Microsoft website.

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)

• AWS IoT Greengrass core devices

• AWS IoT and non-AWS edge devices

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

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