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-amd64-20230717-1444
- debian-11-arm64-20230717-1444
AMI IDs can be obtained via Public Parameters in the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store in the /aws/service/debian/ namespace.
The current region-specific AMI IDs are:
Region |
ARM64 AMI ID |
AMD64 AMI ID |
af-south-1 |
ami-00e0d7bf0c508c98f |
ami-0370107745023e48d |
ap-east-1 |
ami-076d58749381f438f |
ami-046541c4402c105a6 |
ap-northeast-1 |
ami-03f9f71ab716a5c75 |
ami-0deffe25fb08894f5 |
ap-northeast-2 |
ami-0f6aa4753e2fa7472 |
ami-097243fad67b35a40 |
ap-northeast-3 |
ami-014e0da99f64a3fa4 |
ami-03ad2f651aaddff3a |
ap-south-1 |
ami-05f21434da2284cc6 |
ami-0361008010558ea2d |
ap-south-2 |
ami-03cb6f7d6dd774630 |
ami-00f8b7c6e6b6710cf |
ap-southeast-1 |
ami-0237165ff15f0f336 |
ami-07bf64b7ca62c96ee |
ap-southeast-2 |
ami-0dc188c3822edd7b6 |
ami-0cc8e61f3957442b8 |
ap-southeast-3 |
ami-074e442ea1116c776 |
ami-0924d71cdf3f43a92 |
ap-southeast-4 |
ami-02a95bfaddbeeeb4d |
ami-0d7cef1b0906286fe |
ca-central-1 |
ami-095c939d2ed035d41 |
ami-0cfe1aac5d0b881ff |
eu-central-1 |
ami-01ddb6579d2b21c95 |
ami-0042e6537994c4181 |
eu-central-2 |
ami-04028748e7e5d1ab6 |
ami-030bde30e6bd401a8 |
eu-north-1 |
ami-0b44e8c9e00efe452 |
ami-00347e40213620217 |
eu-south-1 |
ami-036dc7f1ad3b3d3cb |
ami-056b2c53da5ae730e |
eu-south-2 |
ami-0fd3dd9ef73cf3e97 |
ami-0a8dd9eafd4b32b6f |
eu-west-1 |
ami-094cf97292b323aa2 |
ami-04620cb5b85309067 |
eu-west-2 |
ami-091ec88aeb5db9fcf |
ami-0315c69b482426e70 |
eu-west-3 |
ami-022cd0c14d5525af7 |
ami-0dcc6ef9e7a6e70f2 |
me-central-1 |
ami-07b6506c56aa0114a |
ami-0a78fb1a991dee28d |
me-south-1 |
ami-0dc46672cfe32f037 |
ami-0a769022ac70dde33 |
sa-east-1 |
ami-0fbe4b1df4a7761cc |
ami-027ba68d27297f530 |
us-east-1 |
ami-0857523dadab9aacb |
ami-01e8fbda99c153c6b |
us-east-2 |
ami-014cbdc1fcd9c7f14 |
ami-0ef27e70f95b439e8 |
us-west-1 |
ami-0db4831f759c31c7b |
ami-09d529cbaf5cc7e6f |
us-west-2 |
ami-0e59fb78dcf9b9c26 |
ami-0acfc42b227d0b719 |
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
2023-07-17 - Debian 11 AMIs update 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
See also Cloud and Teams/Cloud.