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, 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 2022

Environment Deployment type with release and build
Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) On-Premises: Build 19526 or later
Microsoft Azure VM On-Premises: Build 21094 (v.31) or later
Note: Keep in the mind the following about Microsoft Windows Server 2022:
  • This version is not certified for the disaster recovery (DR) deployments.
  • Updating to Microsoft Windows Server 2022 from any of the previous versions (2012, 2016 and 2019) is not certified by Automation Anywhere.

Microsoft Windows Server 2019

Environment Deployment type with release and build
Amazon WorkSpaces Cloud: Build 17542 or later
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 Server 2016

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 is the recommended operating system.

Environment Deployment type with release and build
Amazon WorkSpaces Cloud: Build 17542 or later
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 2012 and 2012 R2

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 10

Environment Deployment type with release and build
Amazon WorkSpaces Cloud: Build 17542 or later
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 and 8.3:
  • 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