# AWS DRS supported Linux operating systems
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## General Notes
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+ [Review the AWS Replication Agent installation requirements.](installation-requirements.md)
+ 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\$1 (kernel versions 2.6.32–431 and above)
  + SUSE 12\$1
  + Ubuntu 16\$1 LTS
  + AL 2 and AL 2023
  + Rocky 8\$1
  + Debian 9\$1

**Important**  
** Support deprecation notes **  
**CentOS versions 6.x**:  
Effective August 28, 2026, this operating system will no longer be supported.
**SLES versions 11.x**:  
Effective August 28, 2026, this operating system will no longer be supported.
**Oracle versions 6.x**:  
Effective August 28, 2026, this operating system will no longer be supported.
**Ubuntu 12.04**:  
Effective August 20, 2026, this operating system will no longer be supported.
**Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 5.x and CentOS version 5.x**:  
Effective December 30, 2025, this operating system is no longer supported.
**Debian 6.x-9.x**:   
Effective April 30, 2026, this operating system will no longer be supported.

**These Linux operating systems are supported:**


| Operating system | Supported versions | Prerequisites and Limitations | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
|  Amazon Linux  |  1, 2, 2023  |  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/Supported-Operating-Systems-Linux.html)  | 
|  RHEL  |  6.0 to 9.7  |  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/Supported-Operating-Systems-Linux.html)  | 
|  CentOS  |  6.0 to 8.0  |  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/Supported-Operating-Systems-Linux.html)  | 
|  Oracle Linux  |  6.0 to 7.0, 8.5 to 8.10, and 9.0 to 9.4  |  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/Supported-Operating-Systems-Linux.html)  | 
|  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  |  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/Supported-Operating-Systems-Linux.html)  | 
|  Ubuntu  |  12.04 to 24.04  |  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/Supported-Operating-Systems-Linux.html)  | 
|  Debian  |  10 to 11  |   Only Kernel 3.x or above are supported   |