Debian Jessie on AWS EC2
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!
8.0.0
Region |
hvm x86_64 ebs |
paravirtual x86_64 ebs |
ap-northeast-1 |
ami-ce5594ce |
ami-56549556 |
ap-southeast-1 |
ami-fa4c70a8 |
ami-8c4c70de |
ap-southeast-2 |
ami-c71d61fd |
ami-2f1e6215 |
eu-central-1 |
ami-02724d1f |
ami-28724d35 |
eu-west-1 |
ami-99f39eee |
ami-8bf29ffc |
sa-east-1 |
ami-b7f97daa |
ami-dbf97dc6 |
us-east-1 |
ami-144f4d7c |
ami-ac4c4ec4 |
us-west-1 |
ami-0343ae47 |
ami-db43ae9f |
us-west-2 |
ami-0d5b6c3d |
ami-a7596e97 |
cn-north-1 |
ami-26d14c1f |
- |
us-gov-west-1 |
ami-a7d3b284 |
ami-a5d3b286 |
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.