System Requirements for Amazon RDS Custom

To back up and restore RDS Custom data on an Amazon application, verify that your environment has the required software and a firewall.

Software Requirements

Packages that are required on access nodes:
- Virtual Server Agent
Access nodes that you run backup and restore operations on must have one of the following operating systems:

Operating system	Processor architecture
Amazon Linux 2023 AMI*	64-bit (Arm) (recommended) 64-bit (x86)
Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM) - Kernel 5.10, SSD Volume Type*	64-bit (Arm) (recommended) 64-bit (x86)
CentOS 7	x64 Compatible processors
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x, 7.x	x64 Compatible processors

*Supported only for native snapshot backups.

Operating system	Processor architecture
Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012 R2, and 2012	x64 Compatible processors