Prerequisites - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon Web Services RegionsWavelength Zones and Amazon OutpostsLocal ZonesInstance typesGrant accessSupport for browser-based clientInstance stateAmazon EC2 Systems Managersshd server
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Prerequisites

Amazon Web Services Regions

Supported in the following Amazon Web Services Regions:

  • US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon)

  • Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo)

  • Canada (Central)

  • Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm)

  • South America (São Paulo)

  • Amazon GovCloud (US-East), Amazon GovCloud (US-West)

Wavelength Zones and Amazon Outposts

Not supported.

Local Zones

Supported in the following Local Zones:

  • Dallas, US

    Local Zone name: us-east-1-dfw-1a

    Parent Region: US East (N. Virginia)

  • Los Angeles, US

    Local Zone names: us-west-2-lax-1a, us-west-2-lax-1b

    Parent Region: US West (Oregon)

Instance types

Supported instance types:

  • All virtualized instances built on the Nitro System.

  • All bare metal instances except:

    • General purpose: a1.metal, mac1.metal, mac2.metal

    • Accelerated computing: g5g.metal

    • Memory optimized: u-6tb1.metal, u-9tb1.metal, u-12tb1.metal, u-18tb1.metal, u-24tb1.metal

Grant access

You must complete the configuration tasks to grant access to the EC2 Serial Console. For more information, see Configure access to the EC2 Serial Console.

Support for browser-based client

To connect to the serial console using the browser-based client, your browser must support WebSocket. If your browser does not support WebSocket, connect to the serial console using your own key and an SSH client.

Instance state

Must be running.

You can't connect to the serial console if the instance is in the pending, stopping, stopped, shutting-down, or terminated state.

For more information about the instance states, see Instance lifecycle.

Amazon EC2 Systems Manager

If the instance uses Amazon EC2 Systems Manager, then SSM Agent version 3.0.854.0 or later must be installed on the instance. For information about SSM Agent, see Working with SSM Agent in the Amazon Systems Manager User Guide.

sshd server

You do not need an sshd server installed or running on your instance.