# Windows operating systems supported by Elastic Disaster Recovery
Supported Windows operating systems

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery allows replication of physical, virtual or cloud-based source server to the AWS Cloud for several versions of Windows. 

## General Notes


**Important**  
**Windows 2003** is no longer supported.

[Review the AWS Replication Agent installation requirements.](installation-requirements.md)

**These Windows operating systems are supported:**


| Operating system | Supported versions | Prerequisites and Limitations | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
|  Microsoft Windows Server 2022 64-bit  |    | Requires .Net Framework version 4.5 or above to be installed by the end user.  | 
|  Microsoft Windows Server 2019 64-bit  |    | Requires .Net Framework version 4.5 or above to be installed by the end user.  | 
|  Microsoft Windows Server 2016 64-bit  |    | Requires .Net Framework version 4.5 or above to be installed by the end user.  | 
|  Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit  |   |  Ensure that the [auto sleep function in Windows 10](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/turn-off-auto-sleep-in-windows-10/79f2d86c-3378-495f-8da2-4d78021876d4) is disabled. Data replication may be interrupted if the feature is activated.  | 
|  Microsoft Windows Server 2012  **This version has reached end of life. We recommend that you update to a more recent version.**  |  64-bit and R2 64-bit  |  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/Supported-Operating-Systems-Windows.html)  | 
|  Microsoft Windows Server 2008  **This version has reached end of life. We recommend that you update to a more recent version.**  |  64-bit and R2 64-bit  | [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/Supported-Operating-Systems-Windows.html)  | 
|  Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit **This version has reached end of life. We recommend that you update to a more recent version.**  |    |  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/Supported-Operating-Systems-Windows.html)  |