Debian Jessie on AWS EC2
Jessie is not yet released (as at 21/Sept/14). All images are temporary and should be viewed as such until the main Jessie release is stable.
SSH username
In line with the security of most Linux distributions on Amazon Web Services, remote root SSH is disabled (as is password authentication). You will need to connect to instances from this AMI as the user admin using your SSH key, and then sudo -i to gain root access.
New in Debian Jessie EC2 Images
- 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 images only - 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)
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Virtualisation |
Hardware Virtualisation (HVM) |
Root filesystem |
EBS |
Architecture |
x86_64 |
US-East-1 |
ami-5c1ab234 |
US-West-1 |
ami-116f6754 |
US-West-2 |
ami-f7f0b0c7 |
EU-West-1 |
ami-02ec4a75 |
AP-Southeast-1 |
ami-8cddf9de |
AP-Southeast-2 |
ami-15a9ca2f |
AP-Northeast-1 |
ami-85406e84 |
SA-East-1 |
ami-9b45ef86 |
US-Gov-West-1 |
ami-bbdfb898 |
CN-North-1 |
ami-3e54c607 |
The Jessie release of Debian was built with bootstrap-vz (formerly called build-debian-cloud), and contains the CloudInit package installed from Debian backports.
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
See also Cloud and Teams/Cloud.