Debian 12 (bookworm) on Amazon EC2
SSH username
SSH to Debian instances as user admin using your SSH key, and then sudo -i to gain root access.
Status
Debian 12 (bookworm) AMIs are available for both arm64 and amd64 (x86_64) instance types in all public regions except those in in China. China and US GovCloud regional availability is planned for the future.
The AMIs are owned by AWS account ID 136693071363 and can be launched via the AWS Marketplace or directly using the AMI IDs listed below.
The current AMI names are:
- debian-12-arm64-20260502-2466
- debian-12-amd64-20260502-2466
The current regional AMI IDs are:
Region |
ARM64 AMI ID |
AMD64 AMI ID |
af-south-1 |
ami-0a7e559886808615f |
ami-040d8ff04b95fbcea |
ap-east-1 |
ami-076d4566ddd3cd6ed |
ami-0fd209b40b7213ef2 |
ap-east-2 |
ami-08b8159b9e11ef0be |
ami-0990ed9c3ab68eaea |
ap-northeast-1 |
ami-080e4e8fd6d4116c5 |
ami-08f726e07100b72e2 |
ap-northeast-2 |
ami-08cdbe2254f4b9e1a |
ami-0a1af5a76adc68187 |
ap-northeast-3 |
ami-08fff975d766b8b07 |
ami-04b1626e492a035e2 |
ap-south-1 |
ami-0f95316de517d02d7 |
ami-045ba16615046569b |
ap-south-2 |
ami-0fde2d9bf56cdf025 |
ami-0c7539f0cd172fb5b |
ap-southeast-1 |
ami-0c6f80f49cdd8e77d |
ami-00fc146a66e158022 |
ap-southeast-2 |
ami-0f9518238f24cf5ee |
ami-07e02602ce8d72f35 |
ap-southeast-3 |
ami-048000090e30ee28e |
ami-0d7449b6cb853f68d |
ap-southeast-4 |
ami-0333fd6064033a89e |
ami-05f313b7e33110d78 |
ap-southeast-5 |
ami-0b910a9295d0e43fc |
ami-00c300ee61d20cbbd |
ap-southeast-6 |
ami-04bcc5b84694832e2 |
ami-018224e9b465b4edd |
ap-southeast-7 |
ami-09c4a0577bad24b43 |
ami-0f9ba3d66c22e0980 |
ca-central-1 |
ami-06dba2884def2e695 |
ami-0ab7514a0950b39d9 |
ca-west-1 |
ami-0eef211cb259f4b61 |
ami-04a7a9160e1b89ff9 |
eu-central-1 |
ami-04991928175cf27a1 |
ami-09ca7bd4727fb280b |
eu-central-2 |
ami-06ef90ebe1f22b33b |
ami-0f27cbf512a5ca7bc |
eu-north-1 |
ami-036d3420021b27643 |
ami-0d0779afbbd38d2b7 |
eu-south-1 |
ami-070f87a1c278da8a9 |
ami-01038c701ca770d48 |
eu-south-2 |
ami-0316d0c18b8f78540 |
ami-02c29e8b8080e1bb9 |
eu-west-1 |
ami-0f0af99c182d65672 |
ami-039678027599ea4cb |
eu-west-2 |
ami-079237fd0d97c8740 |
ami-0d7e4fc9aca3e1cd2 |
eu-west-3 |
ami-013775fadf2c40b75 |
ami-06562025f531d42d2 |
il-central-1 |
ami-0afcb0568128a2887 |
ami-09f0e5b3db9e5affb |
me-central-1 |
ami-0fe9a3ae0843728d6 |
ami-07098cd636c0b5906 |
mx-central-1 |
ami-096d24ed4a7a196b0 |
ami-0b04d9ce80fc8ad3c |
sa-east-1 |
ami-099c0d3e848d48002 |
ami-0c7dc417634067dc0 |
us-east-1 |
ami-086044c8615be0aba |
ami-000af3a3376a8e41b |
us-east-2 |
ami-050f01b7efd4bf3d4 |
ami-01779444b39e6fba8 |
us-west-1 |
ami-0ded256e97858152b |
ami-066e9938c9368b4c4 |
us-west-2 |
ami-02066068815d13cb0 |
ami-001c171c08bcd72f0 |
Image notes
HVM images only - current generation EC2 instances all support HVM virtualisation.
64-bit images only - current generation EC2 instances all support 64 bit; if you require 32 bit, please look at Multiarch
SR-IOV networking - Enhanced Networking (ENI)
ENA networking - Elastic Network Adapter
Multiple ENI support - DHCP client is configured to support the number of network interfaces the instance supports (up to 8), hot plugged with udev
AWS CLI v2 is installed by default
Python-boto is installed by default
EBS gp3 is the default root volume type
Changelog
2026-05-02 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 6243 (linux)
2026-04-13 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 6204 (openssh) and DSA 6201 (openssl). Note that there is no AMI ID for me-south-1, as this region is offline at the time of publication.
2026-03-16 - Debian 12 AMIs released with no content changes
2026-03-13 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 6163 (linux)
2026-02-10 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 6127 (linux)
2026-01-12 - Debian 12 AMIs updated to version 12.13
2025-11-12 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 6053 (linux)
2025-10-06 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 6015 (openssl)
2025-09-23 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 6009 (linux)
2025-09-10 - Debian 12 AMIs update to version 12.12. See the release announcement for details
2025-08-14 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 5973 (linux) and SUA 271 (openssl)
2025-08-04 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for SUA 269 (openssl), SUA 270 (openssh), and DSA 5962 (gnutls28)
2025-07-03 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 5954 (sudo), ca-certificates, and more.
2025-05-30 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 5931 (systemd)
2025-05-28 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for new kernel packages for DSA 5925
2025-05-19 - Debian 12 AMIs updated to 12.11. See the release notes for details
2025-04-28 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for linux security advisory DSA 5907
2025-04-16 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for kernel, perl, and xz-utils security fixes and tzdata changes.
2025-03-17 - Debian 12 AMIs updated to 12.10. Full details in the release announcement
2025-02-10 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for linux security advisory DSA 5860-1
2025-01-15 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for kernel regression SUA 263-1
2025-01-13 - Debian 12 AMIs updated to 12.9. Full details in the release announcement
2024-12-02 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for new tzdata packages
2024-11-25 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 5818 (linux)
2024-11-11 - Debian 12 AMIs updated to 12.8. Full details in the release announcement
2024-10-04 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 5782 (linux)
2024-07-17 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 5731 (linux)
2024-07-02 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 5724 (openssh)
2024-07-01 - Debian 12.6 AMIs released. See the release announcement for details
2024-05-07 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 5680 (linux)
2024-04-29 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 5673-1 (glibc). This update also fixes a name resolution regression introduced in the 2024-04-15 release.
2024-04-15 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 5658-1 Linux kernel updates
2024-02-11 - Debian 12 AMIs updated to 12.5. See the release announcement for complete details.
2024-02-01 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 5611
2023-12-10 - Debian 12 AMIs updated to 12.4. See the release announcement for complete details.
2023-10-13 - Debian 12 AMIs updated to 12.2. See the release announcement for complete details.
2023-10-04 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for DSA 5514
2023-09-10 - Debian 12 AMIs update for DSA 5492
2023-07-24 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for the 12.1 minor release
2023-07-11 - Debian 12 AMIs updated for kernel security update DSA 5448
2023-06-12 - Official Debian 12 release AMIs published
2023-06-01 - pre-release AMIs published
See also Cloud and Teams/Cloud.