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Mar 21, 2023 · Amazon Web Services announces the ability to run Windows 11 operating system on your Amazon Workspaces hosted on hardware that is dedicated to you in the AWS Cloud. To do this, you must Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and provide a Windows 11 license.
- Differences in Importing Windows 11 Images
- Importing A Windows 11 Image
- Launch A Windows 11 Instance from Your Ami
- Confirming The TPM, Boot Mode, and Secure Boot State in Windows 11
When VM Import/Export detects a Windows 11 image, it configures the import task with: 1. The BootMode set to uefiby default – This behavior is a change to the import process for Windows images as Windows 11 supports only UEFI. For previous versions of Windows, VM Import/Export defaults to the Legacy BIOS boot mode. 2. The LicenseType set to BYOL – ...
Prerequisites
1. A Windows 11 Virtual Desktop Access E3 or E5 license. 2. A new or existing Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket where you will store the VM image (OVA, VHD/X, VMDK or XVA file) exported from your on-premises hypervisor. 3. Upload the VM image file to Amazon S3. Navigate to Amazon S3 in the AWS Console, choose the bucket name, choose Upload, add your file to the list, and select Upload. 4. Create the required AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service role for VM Import/Ex...
Import the image
Use the import-image command of the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), specifying the image file in Amazon S3 and the --boot-mode parameter uefi. In the following example, replace bucketname with the name of the S3 bucket and filenamewith the name of your image file in the S3 bucket (e.g. Windows11.vhd). Note: It is recommended to specify the boot mode as uefito avoid confusion, though VM Import/Export will choose uefi based on the Windows 11 OS. The import Task Id is displayed and the import...
Now let’s launch an Amazon EC2 instance using the UEFI and the NitroTPM-enabled AMI you imported. To do so, navigate to the EC2 Console and choose Launch Instance. Within the Launch Instance Wizard, select My AMIs, select Owned by me, select the AMI matching your ImageId from the Amazon Machine Image (AMI)dropdown. Select an instance type which sup...
When you logon to the new Windows 11 instance, you can use PowerShell to check the state of these components. Select the Start button, enter PowerShell in the search box, under Windows PowerShell. Select Run as Administrator. Run the commands Get-Tpm and Confirm-SecureBootUEFI. Confirm TPMActivated and Confirm-SecureBootUEFI are True. Note: PowerSh...
Aug 4, 2022 · Amazon Web Services will now allow customers to run Windows 11 on Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, the firm has announced.
If your licensing agreement with Microsoft allows it, you can bring and deploy your Windows 10 or 11 desktop on your WorkSpaces. To do this, you must enable Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and provide a Windows 10 or 11 license that meets the requirements below.
I’ll show you all the steps to get a Windows 10 machine running in AWS EC2. NOTE: Windows 10 Home won’t work. Windows 10 Enterprise and Education editions work fine, but the home edition won’t import. The basic process is: Build our Windows 10 image locally; Setup our AWS account; Create an S3 bucket; Setup AWS CLI on our local ...
If you want to use Windows Server 2022 on Dedicated Hosts, you must use Windows Server 2022 license-included instances. AWS License Manager is a comprehensive solution for managing software licenses from various vendors across AWS and on-premises environments.
