Debian 13 (trixie) 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
Debian 13 (trixie) AMIs are available for both arm64 and amd64 (x86_64) instance types in all public regions except those in in China and the us GovCloud.
The AMIs are owned by AWS account ID 136693071363 and can be launched via the AWS Marketplace or directly using the AMI IDs listed below.
AMI IDs can be obtained via Public Parameters in the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store in the /aws/service/debian/ namespace. An example aws CLI command for listing the current AMIs is
aws --region us-east-2 ssm get-parameters-by-path --recursive --path /aws/service/debian/release/13/latest
The aws CLI documentation describes in more detail how to query and filter parameters. In particular, see get-parameter, get-parameters, and get-parameters-by-path
The current AMI names are:
- debian-13-arm64-20260112-2355
- debian-13-amd64-20260112-2355
The current regional AMI IDs are:
Region |
ARM64 AMI ID |
AMD64 AMI ID |
af-south-1 |
ami-0c3a6773250e4131b |
ami-0f0f003329dedcce3 |
ap-east-1 |
ami-05643f44ce7243d0a |
ami-0e42f33f73fc60fe6 |
ap-east-2 |
ami-05045ea19c8dd126a |
ami-07fc0e33f901135ef |
ap-northeast-1 |
ami-00cd3bf51f114e959 |
ami-0b7276d24510c26b5 |
ap-northeast-2 |
ami-043361d4ea9862ec5 |
ami-066397ff2ecd49edd |
ap-northeast-3 |
ami-01fa24c8270e62a56 |
ami-09981b91c431ec5f1 |
ap-south-1 |
ami-0d52c731e58fa4875 |
ami-02398704ff7cb96ba |
ap-south-2 |
ami-02a4dcee9653c1fdd |
ami-062effdd2e8b2fad4 |
ap-southeast-1 |
ami-06c9a8dac31da644f |
ami-0a8614e7d08a70e22 |
ap-southeast-2 |
ami-0fa15f4bc0d3fcaa7 |
ami-0ba6c77465735c734 |
ap-southeast-3 |
ami-03e2c513f393d6f76 |
ami-0fe79ab3aad861b4f |
ap-southeast-4 |
ami-07f4f6bc66fa1c8e8 |
ami-006e2c6000d4607d0 |
ap-southeast-5 |
ami-0f46871caf4adc22e |
ami-0b53900c166432fb3 |
ap-southeast-6 |
ami-08466c4e01bb1d6b4 |
ami-04ccc9c1eb04ab87e |
ap-southeast-7 |
ami-02a2a008d69b1a507 |
ami-0ce128c3137d85f87 |
ca-central-1 |
ami-089f1daf48110642e |
ami-0042d6214a9948c63 |
ca-west-1 |
ami-0545fef0479ced7ce |
ami-0e233c9cca9d78992 |
eu-central-1 |
ami-09307697973548dc5 |
ami-0ac7b8207fb477bcb |
eu-central-2 |
ami-07e8569c41f0b4077 |
ami-067aee6c161842c41 |
eu-north-1 |
ami-09d036841cb360ce5 |
ami-05d91d8592469269a |
eu-south-1 |
ami-06b4fcf21157137dc |
ami-0d39952dfcfb45db2 |
eu-south-2 |
ami-0f42469ce580932cd |
ami-0ad15507ae8d66225 |
eu-west-1 |
ami-025a52ae88f2e370e |
ami-03dccd6d1c83428a6 |
eu-west-2 |
ami-05362a388d4f72875 |
ami-048fc35727b58da59 |
eu-west-3 |
ami-0dadf2398f3a0b2a5 |
ami-0e5f8257c50ea2de7 |
il-central-1 |
ami-0ea147d3bc12d7f0c |
ami-029239c8bbf9d46a1 |
me-central-1 |
ami-0bf78715b65284d33 |
ami-08f5e491ecd83c7ee |
me-south-1 |
ami-0546657a74da032be |
ami-0382dc7a8147017dc |
mx-central-1 |
ami-02937a7ff35d8de47 |
ami-0e7a84c629a47141d |
sa-east-1 |
ami-028a7045f3b27eb79 |
ami-08c9be4bcd4938263 |
us-east-1 |
ami-0786f71ee78232d2c |
ami-05c546c5ae2f91899 |
us-east-2 |
ami-03a22f8b98763e6b9 |
ami-051f10b921a0c0595 |
us-west-1 |
ami-04dc46cb8157fd13d |
ami-00f185cc9581be53d |
us-west-2 |
ami-01dfbcaded365fd20 |
ami-046b09d569869d2aa |
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
AWS CLI v2 is installed by default
Python-boto is installed by default
EBS gp3 is the default root volume type
Changelog
2026-01-12 - Debian 13 AMIs updated to Debian 13.3
2025-11-17 - Debian 13 AMIs updated to Debian 13.2
2025-10-06 - Debian 13 AMIs updated for DSA 6015 (openssl)
2025-09-24 - Debian 13 AMIs updated for DSA 6008 (linux)
2025-09-11 - Updated to Debian 13.1 plus SUA 275 (systemd) updates. See the release announcement for details.
2025-08-14 - Updated for DSA 5975 (linux)
2025-08-11 - Initial publication
See also Cloud and Teams/Cloud.