As mentioned in our recent blog post, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ‘Bionic Beaver‘ will reach the end of the standard five-year maintenance window on 31 May 2023. This means that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS servers will stop receiving updates unless you are an Ubuntu Pro subscriber.
With an Ubuntu Pro subscription, your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS deployment will continue to be fully supported until 2028.
This blog sets out what you need to know if you are still running your EC2, ECS, EKS workloads on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Note: If you are running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on any other AWS service other than EC2, EKS and ECS, please contact AWS support for upgrading options.
Upgrading Ubuntu to newer versions
You might consider upgrading to a new LTS release. If so, you can either upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or freshly install Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 LTS and upgrade your application accordingly.
For more information see Ubuntu Server upgrade guide ›
Ubuntu Pro
If you need more time to plan your upgrade, or you…
