Operating Systems and Applications
The table below lists which operating systems you may use with the Frame platform, including licensing and image requirements based on infrastructure.
| Operating System | AHV | AWS | Azure | GCP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows 10 * | ✓ 1 | ✓ 2 | ||
| Windows 11 | ✓ 1 | ✓ 2 | ||
| Windows Server 2016 | ✓ 1 | ✓ 3 | ✓ 3 | ✓ 3 |
| Windows Server 2019 | ✓ 1 | ✓ 3 | ✓ 3 | ✓ 3 |
| Windows Server 2022 | ✓ 1 | ✓ 3 | ✓ 3 | ✓ 3 |
| Ubuntu 20.04 | ✓ 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
* Frame supports Windows 10 releases that have not yet met their official end of service date.
Customers are responsible for applying operating system security updates to their accounts.
Administrators are responsible for managing operating system and application updates for their accounts. As a best practice, administrators should ensure OS updates are compatible with any applications before installing them. Admins may choose to configure automatic updates or apply them manually. Similarly, this concept applies to configuring updates for any applications you have installed. Many Frame customers find that it's beneficial to have a separate Frame account for testing major system configuration changes.
We also recommend testing any application and OS updates in the Sandbox environment and/or test pool before publishing to the production pool (or promoting a test publish to production). Any OS/application updates applied to the Sandbox will require a publish to propagate those changes to the test and production pools. If you find that a new update has caused an issue, you can roll back to an older version of the application/OS and republish or restore from a Sandbox backup and republish.