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AWS DRS supported Linux operating systems - AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
General NotesAWS Graviton source servers

AWS DRS supported Linux operating systems

General Notes

  • Review the AWS Replication Agent installation requirements.

  • For arm64 support, see AWS Graviton source servers.

  • Linux kernel versions up to 6.14 are supported.

  • For source machines configured with LVM, on RHEL/Oracle version less than or equal to 9.4, please make sure to update the lvm package to lvm2-2.03.23-1.el9 or later.

  • AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery does not support 32 bit versions of Linux.

  • Hard reboots, disk changes, and crashes trigger a rescan. Graceful reboots do not trigger a rescan in the following versions:

    • RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux 6+ (kernel versions 2.6.32–431 and above)

    • SUSE 12+

    • Ubuntu 16+ LTS

    • AL 2 and AL 2023

    • Rocky 8+

    • Debian 9+

AWS Graviton source servers

arm64 is the 64-bit Arm processor architecture used by AWS Graviton processors. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery supports arm64 source servers that run on AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instances and recover to AWS. Elastic Disaster Recovery supports arm64 only for AWS-to-AWS recovery. Source servers in on-premises environments or other clouds must use x86_64.

The AWS Replication Agent installer is architecture-specific. For an arm64 server, download the arm64 installer. See Installing the AWS Replication Agent on Linux.

For the launch requirements that apply to arm64 source servers, see Key considerations for EC2 launch templates.

Support removal notices

The following operating systems are no longer supported, or will no longer be supported after the listed date. AWS does not provide troubleshooting assistance or compatibility fixes for unsupported operating systems.

  • RHEL 5.x and CentOS 5.x — Support ended December 30, 2025.

  • Debian 6.x–9.x — Support ended April 30, 2026.

  • Ubuntu 12.04 — Support ends August 20, 2026.

  • CentOS 6.x, SUSE (SLES) 11.x, and Oracle Linux 6.x — Support ends August 28, 2026.

These Linux operating systems are supported:

Operating system Supported versions Prerequisites and Limitations

Amazon Linux

1, 2, 2023

  • Amazon Linux 1 is only supported for AWS to AWS recovery.

  • Amazon Linux 2023 is supported up to kernel version 6.12.

RHEL

6.0 to 10.1

  • For RHEL 8.x, a prerequisite is to run $ sudo yum install elfutils-libelf-devel

  • Kernel versions 2.6.32-71 are not supported in RHEL 6.0

  • The post-launch actions feature is not supported on RHEL 6.x.

  • Nitro instance types work with RHEL 7.4+

  • AWS requires that servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) must have Cloud Access (BYOL) licenses in order to be recovered to AWS. Note that servers running RHEL Cloud Access Gold Images allow you to access AWS Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI), Red Hat Satellite, or Red Hat Subscription Manager (RHSM). If you are using RHEL Cloud Access Gold Images, you will not be able to access RHUI upon failover to AWS unless you link your AWS account to your Red Hat account via the Red Hat portal, and select the Gold image AMI in the launch template.

  • You must select an AWS provided RHEL AMI in the Launch Template for servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Pay as You Go (PAYG) images. This allows access to RHUI after failover.

CentOS

6.0 to 8.0

  • Kernel versions 2.6.32-71 are not supported in CentOS 6.0

  • The post-launch actions feature is not supported on CentOS 6.x.

  • Nitro instance types work with CentOS 7.4+

Oracle Linux

6.0 to 7.0, 8.5 to 8.10, and 9.0 to 9.8

  • For Oracle Linux 8.x, a prerequisite is to run $ sudo yum install elfutils-libelf-devel

  • Kernel versions 2.6.32-71 are not supported in Oracle Linux 6.0

  • The post-launch actions feature is not supported on Oracle Linux 6.x.

  • Nitro instance types work with Oracle Linux 7.4+

  • Oracle Linux 6.0 to 7.0 source servers must be running either Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 or higher or a Red Hat Compatible Kernel.

  • Oracle Linux 8.5 to 8.9 (running either Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 or higher or a Red Hat Compatible Kernel) – the following UEK kernels were tested:

    • 5.15.0-200.131.27.el9uek.x86_64

    • 5.15.0-101.103.2.1.el9uek.x86_64

    • 5.15.0-3.60.5.1.el9uek.x86_64

    • 5.15.0-0.30.19.el9uek.x86_64

    • 5.15.0-206.153.7.1.el8uek.x86_64

    • 5.15.0-200.131.27.el8uek.x86_64

    • 5.15.0-101.103.2.1.el8uek.x86_64

    • 5.15.0-3.60.5.1.el8uek.x86_64

    • 5.4.17-2136.314.6.3.el8uek.x86_64

    • 5.4.17-2136.307.3.1.el8uek.x86_64

    • 5.4.17-2136.300.7.el8uek.x86_64

    • 4.18.0-372.32.1.0.1.el8_6.x86_64

  • Oracle Linux 9.0 to 9.8 supports Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 7 or Release 8, or a Red Hat Compatible Kernel. The following kernels were tested on Oracle Linux 9.8:

    • 6.12.0-205.92.4.2.el9uek.x86_64 (Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 8)

    • 5.14.0-687.39.1.el9_8.x86_64 (Red Hat Compatible Kernel)

Rocky Linux

8, 9.7

For Rocky Linux 8.x, a prerequisite is to run $ sudo yum install elfutils-libelf-devel

SUSE

11 SP4 to 15 SP5

  • The AWS Replication Agent is supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP4 and higher.

  • For SUSE Linux (SLES) 11 SP4 to work, you must install the Xen drivers and then reboot the servers before installing the AWS Replication Agent. Use this command to install the drivers: $ sudo zypper install -y xen-kmp-default.

Ubuntu

12.04 to 24.04

  • Only Kernel 3.x or above are supported

  • Azure kernels are not supported as they are not compatible with the Amazon EC2 hardware. Ubuntu servers from Azure are required to switch the kernel to a standard kernel or the AWS tuned Ubuntu kernel 'linux-aws'.

Debian

10 to 13

Only Kernel 3.x or above are supported