Debian Squeeze (6.0.x) on AWS EC2

You may wish to use the CloudFormation template and launch your instance with some smart UserData scripts.

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, and then sudo -i to gain root access.

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


6.0.9

Images were created on 16/Feb/2014 by James Bromberger using bootstrap-vz.

Region

32-bit PVM

64-bit PVM

US-East-1

ami-574f483e

ami-0740476e

US-West-1

ami-7c586439

ami-72586437

US-West-2

ami-fe264bce

ami-fc264bcc

US-Gov-West-1

EU-West-1

ami-ccdd2dbb

ami-d8dd2daf

AP-Northeast-1

ami-cdec99cc

ami-cbec99ca

AP-Southeast-1

ami-eaecbab8

ami-e4ecbab6

AP-Southeast-2

ami-15d24b2f

ami-17d24b2d

SA-East-1

ami-8bc46796

ami-89c46794

Using the aws-cli, you may find this useful: aws --region us-east-1 ec2 describe-images --owners 379101102735 --filters "Name=tag:Name,Values=*6.0.9*" --query "Images[*].[Architecture,?ImageId]" --output text


Upgrading from previous 6.0.x releases

As is standard with Debian, a simple apt-get update && apt-get upgrade should bring all packages up to date. There is no need to reinstall, but any CloudFormation templates and AutoScale Launch Configurations should be tested with and then updated to use the current AMI. It is recommended not to use older point releases.


The Squeeze image performs the following tasks:

The image by default makes no contact to any external servers (no updates applied, no outbound requests, no data leakage).

It is planned to provide a machine-readable version of the above list of images. For the sake of the brainstorm, a JSON version is temporarly placed at Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Squeeze/JSON. However, the structure is very likely to change, see 694035 for details. Here is a naive example on how to query the list. euca-describe-images $(curl --silent http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Squeeze/JSON?action=raw | jsonpipe | awk '/Debian606.ap-northeast-1.64/ {print $2}' | sed 's/"//g')

Suggested UserData scripts

The image by default takes no actions upon boot, and does not auto-update. However, as the Debian image does honour executing UserData meta-data that looks like a script (started with #!/bin/sh), you may optionally chose to take some action. This action can be passed as a script in the AWS Console UserData input, or in the above CloudFormation template to an instance (see the UserData section in the example above).

You can chose to enable auto update with the following UserData scripts:

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get install -y unattended-upgrades


See also Cloud and Teams/Cloud.