How to check your CPU model and Linux distribution in your AWS VM

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How to find your CPU is Graviton or model

To run following command to check your VM hardware details, such the CPU model and baseboard

To check your VM type (is it large?)

sudo dmidecode -t1

You’ll get following output (sample one)

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
        Manufacturer: Amazon EC2
        Product Name: t4g.large
        Version: Not Specified
        Serial Number: ec24f7a0-034a-ac60-1c01-d03ed0ae0484
        UUID: ec24f7a0-034a-ac60-1c01-d03ed0ae0484
        Wake-up Type: Power Switch
        SKU Number: Not Specified
        Family: Not Specified

TO check processor(CPU) information

sudo dmidecode -t4

Here is output of one sample VM in AWS

Processor Information
        Socket Designation: CPU00
        Type: Central Processor
        Family: ARMv8
        Manufacturer: AWS
        ID: C1 D0 3F 41 00 00 00 00
        Signature: Implementor 0x41, Variant 0x3, Architecture 15, Part 0xd0c, Revision 1
        Version: AWS Graviton2
        Voltage: Unknown
        External Clock: Unknown
        Max Speed: 2500 MHz
        Current Speed: 2500 MHz
        Status: Populated, Enabled
        Upgrade: None
        L1 Cache Handle: Not Provided
        L2 Cache Handle: Not Provided
        L3 Cache Handle: Not Provided
        Serial Number: AWS Graviton2
        Asset Tag: AWS Graviton2
        Part Number: AWS Graviton2
        Core Count: 2
        Core Enabled: 2
        Thread Count: 2
        Characteristics: None

To check base board details

sudo dmidecode -t2

# dmidecode 3.2
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.0.0 present.

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
        Manufacturer: Amazon EC2
        Product Name: Not Specified
        Version: Not Specified
        Serial Number: Not Specified
        Asset Tag: i-000ddf9ac579ec970
        Features: None
        Location In Chassis: Not Specified
        Chassis Handle: 0x0003
        Type: Other
        Contained Object Handles: 0

How to know your OS (linux) distribution details in VM

Is my EC2 running in redhat or any type of linux, to run following command

cat /etc/os-release

Then you’ll get more details as below, including linux distribution, version and internal version number etc.

NAME="Amazon Linux"
VERSION="2"
ID="amzn"
ID_LIKE="centos rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="2"
PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux 2"
ANSI_COLOR="0;33"
CPE_NAME="cpe:2.3:o:amazon:amazon_linux:2"
HOME_URL="https://amazonlinux.com/"

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