# What are minimal and recommended hardware requirements for cloud images

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**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [August 29, 2022, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-are-minimal-and-recommended-hardware-requirements-for-cloud-images/7062 "2022-08-29T06:58:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![randomizer30001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@randomizer30001](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/randomizer30001)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-are-minimal-and-recommended-hardware-requirements-for-cloud-images/7062/1 "2022-08-29T06:58:39Z")

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Hi all. Could someone share what are minimal and recommended hardware/system requirements for Rocky 8 and Rocky 9 cloud images?

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**Author:** ![iwalker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/iwalker/32/2599_2.png) [@iwalker](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/iwalker)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-are-minimal-and-recommended-hardware-requirements-for-cloud-images/7062/2 "2022-08-29T07:26:42Z")

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Both Rocky8 and Rocky9 have a minimum memory requirement of 1.5GB irrespective of whether it’s an installation on normal hardware, VM, etc. This is the same as the hardware requirements for RHEL8 and RHEL9: [https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits](https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits)

You **might** be able to get it to work with 1GB, but if some things don’t work, you’ll need to increase it.

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**Author:** ![randomizer30001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@randomizer30001](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/randomizer30001)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-are-minimal-and-recommended-hardware-requirements-for-cloud-images/7062/3 "2022-08-29T09:16:48Z")

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Thank you for your respons! 🙂

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**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 3:41am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-are-minimal-and-recommended-hardware-requirements-for-cloud-images/7062/4 "2023-08-25T03:41:46Z")

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