Amazon Linux end of life dates
The support dates the endoflife.date record (community-maintained) holds for Amazon Linux, read on 30 Sep 2026: when security support ends for each version (cycle), when active support ends, and extended support where the record shows it. Below them, what Cyber Essentials, the Essential Eight, CIS Controls v8, PCI DSS and NIST SP 800-53 ask of a version past its end.
- Oldest version still in support
- 2023, security support to 30 Jun 2029
- Next end date
- 2023, security support ends 30 Jun 2029
- Vendor's own notice
- the vendor lifecycle policy for Amazon Linux, authoritative; each version below links its own notice where the record carries one
- Record
- Amazon Linux
- Kind
- operating system
- Versions in the record
- 17
- Versions past vendor support
- 16
- Essential Eight class
- an operating system: Patch operating systems asks that operating systems no longer supported by vendors are replaced, from ML1 (the held ML2 text carries the ML1 set).
- Source
- endoflife.date/amazon-linux, community-maintained, MIT licence, read 30 Sep 2026; sources
Amazon Linux versions and their support dates
as at 30 Sep 2026| Cycle | Released | Active support ends | Security support ends | Extended support ends | On the read date | Vendor notice | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 Mar 2023 | 30 Jun 2027 | 30 Jun 2029 | none in the record | supported | notice | |
| 2 | 26 Jun 2018 | 30 Jun 2026 | 30 Jun 2026 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2018.03 AMI 2018.03 | 25 Apr 2018 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2017.09 AMI 2017.09 | 3 Nov 2017 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2017.03 AMI 2017.03 | 7 Apr 2017 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2016.09 AMI 2016.09 | 16 Nov 2016 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2016.03 AMI 2016.03 | 22 Mar 2016 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2015.09 AMI 2015.09 | 22 Sep 2015 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2015.03 AMI 2015.03 | 24 Mar 2015 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2014.09 AMI 2014.09 | 23 Sep 2014 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2014.03 AMI 2014.03 | 27 Mar 2014 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2013.09 AMI 2013.09 | 30 Sep 2013 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2013.03 AMI 2013.03 | 27 Mar 2013 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2012.09 AMI 2012.09 | 11 Oct 2012 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2012.03 AMI 2012.03 | 28 Mar 2012 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2011.09 AMI 2011.09 | 26 Sep 2011 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2010.11 AMI 2010.11 | 1 Dec 2010 | 31 Dec 2020 | 31 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice |
A version this table does not list is not in the record: the finder reads it as unknown, never supported. The dates are the record's own; nothing here states a date the record does not hold.
What the schemes ask of a version past its end
- Cyber Essentials
- software on in-scope devices licensed and supported by the vendor, meaning it still receives security updates; unsupported software removed or segregated (SU.1, SU.4). Cyber Essentials Plus: removed, or isolated with compensating controls (PM-02).
- Essential Eight
- An operating system: Patch operating systems asks that operating systems no longer supported by vendors are replaced, from ML1 (the held ML2 text carries the ML1 set).
- CIS Controls v8, Safeguard 2.2
- only software that still receives vendor support may be marked authorised; unsupported software kept for the mission needs a recorded exception with compensating controls and the acceptance of the remaining risk; support status checked at least monthly.
- PCI DSS 12.3.4
- hardware and software reviewed at least every 12 months: that vendors still supply timely security fixes, end-of-life announcements documented, and a remediation plan for outdated technology approved by senior management.
- NIST SP 800-53 SA-22
- system components replaced when support is no longer available from the developer, vendor or manufacturer, or alternative sources of continued support provided.