Debian Jessie on AWS EC2
Testing Images (pre-release)
Jessie is not yet released (as at 22/Mar/15). All images are temporary and may be removed without warning; please do not reference these in your CloudFormation templates or AutoScale groups (instead, clone them into your account) until Jessie is STABLE.
SSH username
SSH to Debian instances as user admin using your SSH key, and then sudo -i to gain root access.
New in Debian Jessie EC2 Images
HVM images preferred - 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 images for HVM - enhanced Networking is enabled by default
Multiple ENI support - DHCP client is configured to support the number of network interfaces the instance supports (up to 8), hot plugged with udev
Multiple sub-interfaces - DHCP client is configured to support multiple IP addresses per interface
AWS CLI is installed by default (from Debian package)
Python-boto is installed by default (from Debian package)
From 20141225 - apt-transport-https is installed; you can change your sources.list to https://cloudfront.debian.net (or other https site) if you wish!
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Region |
hvm x86_64 ebs |
paravirtual x86_64 ebs |
ap-northeast-1 |
ami-d9ee08d9 |
ami-d1e305d1 |
ap-southeast-1 |
ami-e49faab6 |
ami-7e9faa2c |
ap-southeast-2 |
ami-71e1964b |
ami-c3e295f9 |
eu-central-1 |
ami-5e615343 |
ami-04615319 |
eu-west-1 |
ami-f9a9238e |
ami-f7a82280 |
sa-east-1 |
ami-cdf947d0 |
ami-8ff94792 |
us-east-1 |
ami-a490dacc |
ami-1e91db76 |
us-west-1 |
ami-de667c9b |
ami-52667c17 |
us-west-2 |
ami-5b1d396b |
ami-e51c38d5 |
cn-north-1 |
ami-b60e9c8f |
- |
us-gov-west-1 |
ami-031c7d20 |
ami-011c7d22 |
The Jessie release of Debian was built with bootstrap-vz (formerly called build-debian-cloud), and contains the CloudInit package.
Please note that a Marketplace image volume cannot be attached to another running instance (For example, to repair a broken /etc/fstab, or /etc/network/interfaces). This is a limitation of all Marketplace images, as described here: Official AWS documentation
Fun with cloud-init
You may wish to play with cloud-init, for example:
1 #cloud-config
2 package_update: true
3 package_upgrade: true
4 package_reboot_if_required: true
5 packages:
6 - pwgen
7 - less
8 locale: fr_FR.UTF-8
9 ssh_authorized_keys:
10 - ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nz....89dGp5 me@mykey1
11 - ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nz....89dGp5 me@mykey2
12 final_message: "The system is finally up, after $UPTIME seconds"
See also Cloud and Teams/Cloud.