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
2018-02-22 Debian 9.3 AMIs updated to include kernel updates for DSA 4120, addressing multiple vulnerabilities.
2018-01-06 Debian 9.3 AMIs updated to include kernel updates for DSA 4078, addressing the Meltdown attack.
2017-12-24 Debian 9.3 AMIs updated to include DSA 4071 and DSA 4073 updates. These are also the first AMIs published to the new eu-west-3 (Paris) region.
2017-12-17 Debian 9.3 AMIs available. See the release announcement for details.
2017-10-08 Debian 9.2 AMIs available. See the release announcement for details.
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
Image notes
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 Adapter
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!
Stretch
AMI name is "debian-stretch-hvm-x86_64-gp2-2018-02-22-67467" and it is owned by AWS account ID 379101102735.
These images can be launched via their AWS Marketplace listing or directly using the region specific IDs below:
Region |
AMI ID |
ap-northeast-1 |
ami-93552ff5 |
ap-northeast-2 |
ami-c4d578aa |
ap-south-1 |
ami-79673b16 |
ap-southeast-1 |
ami-c3c789bf |
ap-southeast-2 |
ami-e9ce098b |
ca-central-1 |
ami-3fd3545b |
eu-central-1 |
ami-b82240d7 |
eu-west-1 |
ami-fe4b3287 |
eu-west-2 |
ami-2ef21649 |
eu-west-3 |
ami-af77c1d2 |
sa-east-1 |
ami-74387018 |
us-east-1 |
ami-0dc82b70 |
us-east-2 |
ami-295c6b4c |
us-west-1 |
ami-8c828aec |
us-west-2 |
ami-d967e8a1 |
See also Cloud and Teams/Cloud.