Debian Bullseye 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
The initial publication of official Debian 11 (bullseye) AMIs for Amazon EC2 took place on 15 August 2021. The 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-11-arm64-20260502-2466
- debian-11-amd64-20260502-2466
The current regional AMI IDs are:
Region |
ARM64 AMI ID |
AMD64 AMI ID |
af-south-1 |
ami-0333c29fde5dada3c |
ami-0a6cadbbdb05446e6 |
ap-east-1 |
ami-08cdb30f5ca21d991 |
ami-094f3c9c09578ffcb |
ap-east-2 |
ami-0cea397143b84d304 |
ami-01c4a5ca1b6acff74 |
ap-northeast-1 |
ami-0cadd65a903bcee3c |
ami-03a47cb2c4af0288b |
ap-northeast-2 |
ami-0bd67c606d2b3f7bf |
ami-043931268dccd0775 |
ap-northeast-3 |
ami-0e5dfc5fe69d22f57 |
ami-012001841968dff1c |
ap-south-1 |
ami-0bf6db9cd87ad0367 |
ami-096982b4abda75651 |
ap-south-2 |
ami-034f7b4ca6f5b511e |
ami-0dfcb8774237ceb64 |
ap-southeast-1 |
ami-05f001344a084ab94 |
ami-0a17ecb25f5ead7f6 |
ap-southeast-2 |
ami-0bf848cec9c8a2878 |
ami-0cebec610d47377e0 |
ap-southeast-3 |
ami-072f4a6aad61bbca7 |
ami-02a6e551e47b55ca2 |
ap-southeast-4 |
ami-0a932b57d9e29524c |
ami-0c59737432acf4525 |
ap-southeast-5 |
ami-0a68800d2ee0c4e72 |
ami-01c198331c7031054 |
ap-southeast-6 |
ami-0667f89dbeb6c604e |
ami-0fd8e0cbab5134f0a |
ap-southeast-7 |
ami-0db4624feb84bcf5f |
ami-086679bd09a79e0ee |
ca-central-1 |
ami-04f922922c6e73ac9 |
ami-0177158db47f1fb32 |
ca-west-1 |
ami-0a18716195de4097f |
ami-04afa9ea8e8399ce7 |
eu-central-1 |
ami-08bb051b83411b514 |
ami-009e9420630204b5d |
eu-central-2 |
ami-0da9892c7206e62f6 |
ami-038f929315ca7f59f |
eu-north-1 |
ami-05c9f6c16a5dd2758 |
ami-0079fc741e19ef67a |
eu-south-1 |
ami-06a0e462f94a19c8a |
ami-0fadf05a9e02ac10a |
eu-south-2 |
ami-04c2ff1a0fa65652e |
ami-00468e4f9dd4894df |
eu-west-1 |
ami-0d3f34b8fb33e06b8 |
ami-05d93b015e314cb67 |
eu-west-2 |
ami-023a25ac0d17172ea |
ami-08d891c57db003a13 |
eu-west-3 |
ami-06fcb0ae094e596cd |
ami-0641d1f52901ad034 |
il-central-1 |
ami-0bfd7b4e4315972ac |
ami-05c2999928558093a |
me-central-1 |
ami-0d5b60d457a9a201d |
ami-041bc3912343642e9 |
mx-central-1 |
ami-0f25be2d29ae9d57b |
ami-08cc09c05a1c61e3e |
sa-east-1 |
ami-0a329def38b14bd54 |
ami-0e64ddca6a36f5b92 |
us-east-1 |
ami-0e0e1503080c37d95 |
ami-05f4ec6da0cd3faa7 |
us-east-2 |
ami-02666c380be74ea11 |
ami-0bf12ff33986a40c5 |
us-west-1 |
ami-01803653f479a2322 |
ami-0bb8631ba188539fe |
us-west-2 |
ami-054a72bad540fddc5 |
ami-0466af294baf4f088 |
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 is installed by default
Python-boto is installed by default
Changelog
2026-05-02 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DLA 4560 (linux)
2026-04-20 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for new python3.9, openssh, systemd, bind9, libpng, and perl packages.
2026-03-17 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DLA 4498 (linux) and DLA 4499 (linux-6.1)
2026-02-12 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DLA 4475 (linux) and DLA 4472 (sudo)
2026-02-03 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DLA 4455 (python3.9) DLA 4463 (pyasn1) and DLA 4437 (gnupg2)
2026-01-08 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DLA 4404 (linux) and others
2025-10-15 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DLA 4327 (linux)
2025-10-06 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to fix several DLAs (openssl, libxml2, pam, qemu)
2025-08-01 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for new systemd packages, and to update the default apt sources to remove the defunct bullseye-backports repository
2025-07-03 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for sudo, krb5, libicu, and curl updates
2025-05-28 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for glibc, setuptools, and openssl security advisories.
2025-05-12 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DLA 4156 (OpenSSH)
2025-05-05 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for glibc security update DLA 4143 and new tzdata packages
2025-04-29 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for wget and shadow security updates.
2025-04-02 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for tzdata and other updates.
2025-03-03 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DLA 4075 and DLA 4076 (linux)
2024-12-02 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for new tzdata packages and python3.9 updates
2024-11-11 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DLA-2942 (openssl) and DLA-3922 (python-cryptography)
2024-10-07 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DLA 3912 (linux), DLA 3910 (e2fsprogs), and more
2024-08-13 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DSA 5747 (linux)
2024-07-17 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DSA 5730 (linux)
2024-07-02 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to 11.10. See the release announcement for complete details
2024-06-04 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DSA 5703 (linux)
2024-05-07 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DSA 5681 (linux)
2024-04-29 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DSA 5673 (glibc)
2024-02-11 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to 11.9. See the release announcement for complete details.
2023-10-13 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to 11.8. See the release announcement for details
2023-10-04 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DSA 5514
2023-09-12 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DSA 5480
2023-07-17 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DSA 5453
2023-06-01 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DSA 5417
2023-05-15 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for DSA 5402
2023-05-01 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to 11.7. Details at https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230429
2023-01-24 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for sudo and kernel security updates
2022-12-19 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to 11.6 and published to new regions
2022-11-08 - Debian 11 AMIs updated for kernel, glibc, tzdata, and other package updates.
2022-10-20 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to include new tzdata packages and several security updates.
2022-09-11 - Debian 11.5 AMIs released. See the release announcement for details.
2022-08-16 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to include kernel package security fixes. Details in DSA 5207
2022-06-13 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to included fixes for several security issues. These AMIs also are the first published to the ap-southeast-3 region.
2022-05-03 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to include kernel packages addressing DSA 5127 and to fix boot issues on Xen instance types using Enhanced Networking (Bug #1006346)
2022-03-10 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to include new kernel packages for DSA 5096
2022-03-08 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to include new kernel packages for DSA 5092
2022-01-21 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to include new kernel packages for DSA 5050
2021-12-21 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to Debian 11.2. See the release announcement for details
2021-10-11 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to Debian 11.1. See the release announcement for details
2021-09-28 - Debian 11 AMIs updated to include fixes for DSA 4978
2021-08-15 - Initial release
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