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What are the platforms Tableau server can run on?

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Answer

Tableau Server runs on Windows Server and on Linux — Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu and Amazon Linux among the supported distributions.

It can be installed on physical hardware, on a virtual machine, or on cloud instances in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. Tableau Cloud is the fully hosted option where Tableau runs the infrastructure.

Tableau Desktop, by contrast, runs on Windows and macOS but not Linux.

Exact supported versions change with each release, so the honest answer in an interview is Windows and Linux, with the note that you would check the current requirements before planning a deployment.

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