What operating systems are available?
Operating system availability vary by data center. However all system disks comes with a pre installed cloud ready blank operating system image. Windows server are generally only available to G1 instances due to licensing limitations. Major distributions of GNU+Linux is available in all data centers. FreeBSD, OpenBSD and similar are available in limited regions.
Below is a list including but not limited to of widely available images.
GNU+Linux
- CentOS 7, 8, 9, Stream
- Debian 10, 11
- Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 22.10, 23.04
- Arch Linux
- Fedora CoreOS stable, next, testing
- Fedora 36, 37
- Alpine 3.13, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17
Windows server
- Windows server 2012 R2 standard
- Windows server 2016 standard
- Windows server 2019 standard
- Windows server 2022 standard