Available operating system images

Operating system availability varyvaries by data center. HoweverHowever, all system disks comescome with a pre pre-installed cloud cloud-ready blank  operating system image. Windows serverServer areis generally only available tofor G1 instances due to licensing limitations. Major distributions of GNU+GNU/Linux isare available in all data centers. FreeBSD, OpenBSDOpenBSD, and similar systems are available in limited regions.

Below isHere's a list includingshowing but nota limited toselection of widely available images.images as of 2024. There are more images available, including pre-installed apps, in many regions. You can, of course, also install your custom ISO if you prefer.

GNU+Linux

• CentOS 7, 8, 9, StreamStream, SELinux
• Debian 10, 1111, 12
• Ubuntu 18.20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 23.04, 20.04,24.04 22.04, 22.10, 23.04LTS
• Arch Linux (latest)
• Fedora CoreOS stable, next, testing
• Fedora 36,38, 3739, 40
• Alpine 3.13,(latest)
3.14,
• Rocky 3.15,Linux 3.16,8, 3.179
• Alma Linux 8, 9
• FreeBSD (latest)
• OpenBSD (latest)
• OpenSUSE (latest)
• Slackware (latest)

Windows server

• Windows server 2012 R2 standard
• Windows server 2016 standard
• Windows server 2019 standard
• Windows server 2022 standard
• Windows core 2016 standard
• Windows core 2019 standard
• Windows core 2022 standard

Container distributions

• Kubernetes cluster
• Flatcar Container Linux LTS, Stable