EC2 Windows Utility Driver version history - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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EC2 Windows Utility Driver version history

The following table shows which EC2WinUtil drivers run on each version of Windows Server on Amazon EC2. Earlier versions of the operating system use the driver that's preinstalled on AWS Windows Server AMIs that the instance launched from. AMIs that are shared with you or that you subscribe to through AWS Marketplace don't have the driver preinstalled.

Windows Server version EC2WinUtil driver version
Windows Server 2025 latest version
Windows Server 2022 latest version
Windows Server 2019 latest version
Windows Server 2016 latest version
Note

Prior to driver version 3.0.0, the EC2WinUtil driver was not available to download for manual installation. Earlier versions were only available as preinstalled drivers for AWS Windows AMIs.

The following table describes the released versions of the EC2WinUtil driver.

Package version Driver version Details Release date
2.0.0 2.0.0 Added support for output on MMIO serial ports for metal instance types. Also improved crash parsing and updated the output format. August 23, 2018
1.0.1 1.0.1

Changed the driver name to EC2WinUtil due to a namespace conflict with Amazon Inspector. Several bug fixes are included.

 March 1, 2018
1.0.0 1.0.0

Initial release. The driver was initially called AwsAgent.

 November 28, 2017