Debian Stretch 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

2017-08-31 Debian 9.1 AMIs have been refreshed with package updates available as of 2017-08-31. AMI details are available below.
2017-07-22 Debian 9.1 ("stretch r1") AMIs available. Details about updated packages can be found in the release announcement.
2017-06-21 Stretch release AMIs available. Notable changes include passing 'net.ifnames=0' to address Bug 863385 and the installation of unattended-upgrades. Details below.
2017-04-20 The second pre-release round of EC2 AMIs was announced. See AMI details below, or the blog announcement
2017-01-28 The first pre-release round of EC2 AMIs was announced in January, 2017. Details on Noah's blog

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 Adaptor
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
Python-boto is installed by default
apt-transport-https is installed; you can change your sources.list to https://cloudfront.debian.net (or other https site) if you wish!

AMI name is debian-stretch-hvm-x86_64-gp2-2017-08-31-64407 and it is owned by AWS account ID 379101102735.

It is available in the AWS Marketplace or directly using the regional AMI IDs below.