Operating system, environment, and platform supported for Control Room

Automation 360 can be hosted on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM, and any public, private, or hybrid cloud service that meets the Control Room and Bot Agent hardware and software requirements.

Automation 360 is currently certified on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. For Bot Agent operating system and platform compatibility, see the Bot Agent compatibility matrices in Bot Agent compatibility.

Automation 360 supports the 64-bit version of the Microsoft operating system.

Recommendation: Enable Desktop Experience when using the server or client operating system.

Note: When you install the Control Room on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 Datacenter, a warning message indicating installation prerequisites is displayed. However, you can still proceed with the installation without any issues.

Note: Before you install the Control Room for On-Premises, ensure that you have installed the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 package on the Control Room host machine. For more information about the package, see Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015.

The following sections list the environment and deployment types with the release or build number applicable to each supported operating system:

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 Datacenter


Environment	Automation 360 build (version)
Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	On-Premises: Build 4105 (A2019.12) or later Cloud: Build 4111 (A2019.12) or later
Microsoft Azure VM	On-Premises: Build 4105 (A2019.12) or later Cloud: Build 4111 (A2019.12) or later
Google Compute Engine	On-Premises: Build 7103 (A2019.17) or later

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard and Datacenter

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 is the minimum recommended operating system.


Environment	Deployment type with release and build
Microsoft Azure VM	On-Premises: Build 2079 or later Cloud: Build 2079 or later
Google Compute Engine	On-Premises: Build 7103 (A2019.17) or later
VMware VMs on ESXi 6.x	On-Premises: Build 7103 (A2019.17) or later Cloud: Build 2079 or later

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard and Datacenter


Environment	Deployment type with release and build
Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	On-Premises: Build 1089 or later Cloud: Build 1082 or later
Google Compute Engine	On-Premises: Build 7103 (A2019.17) or later
Microsoft Azure VM	On-Premises: Build 2079 or later Cloud: Build 2079 or later

Microsoft Windows 10


Environment	Deployment type with release and build
VMware VMs on ESXi 6.x	On-Premises: Build 7103 (A2019.17) or later Cloud: Build 2079 or later

Linux CentOS


Environment	Deployment type with release and build
Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	For Linux CentOS 7.7: On-Premises: From Build 2545 or later Cloud: From Build 2545 or later For Linux CentOS 7.9: On-Premises: From Build 9664 or later Cloud: From Build 9664 or later

Red Hat Enterprise Linux


Environment	Deployment type with release and build
Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7: On-Premises: From Build 2545 or later Cloud: From Build 2545 or later For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9: On-Premises: From Build 9664 or later Cloud: From Build 9664 or later

Amazon Linux 2


Environment	Deployment type with release and build
Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Amazon Linux 2