AWS will now lets you install Windows 11 on EC2 instances

You can now bring Windows 11 to your EC2 instances

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AmazonWeb Services will now allow customers to runWindows 11on Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, the firm has announced.

As explained in an AWSblog post, the Import/Export function now supports migration of Windows 111virtual machines, allowing customers to “launch instances using the imported images on EC2 Dedicated Hosts, and EC2 Dedicated Instances”.

As reported byThe Register, AWS Senior Technical Account Manager Andrew Riley has set out a handful of criteria the must be met to importWindows 11virtual machines to EC2:

AWS on Windows 11

TheAWS blog postdetails that, in order to run a Windows 11 VM in EC2, the default boot mode should be set to Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). This is a must, because Windows 11 required UEFI-enabled machines.

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This is a move that is set to make running Windows’s latestoperating systemon AWS simpler, butThe Registersuspects that runningDaaS-ware may also make this possible.

On an AWS VM Import/Export page, the company says that “you can import Windows and Linux VMs that use VMware ESX or Workstation,MicrosoftHyper-V, and Citrix Xen virtualization formats".

Availability is set to extend to “AWS GovCloud (US) and all public AWS Regions” with the sole exception of the Amazon Web Services Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.

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