Debian Wheezy (7.0.x) on AWS

Under construction 4/May/2013

List of point releases published to the AWS Marketplace:

You may wish to use the CloudFormation template and launch your instance with some smart UserData scripts. For some releases you are free to choose the AWS Marketplace AMI, or the AMI that exists in the Debian AMI Account (account number 379101102735).

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

7.0.0

Images were created on 5/May/2013 by James Bromberger using debian-build-ami tagged accordingly. The original (non-AWS-Marketplace) AMIs were generated in account 379101102735, and the images were identifiable in the AWS US-East-1 Region as:

These images were generated in each Region (except GovCloud) with the following script: 

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 apt-get update; apt-get install -y git; cd ~root; git clone https://github.com/andsens/debian-build-ami.git; cd ~root/debian-build-ami; export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/;  export EC2_ACCESS_KEY='XXXXXXXXXXX'; export EC2_SECRET_KEY='XXXXXXXXXXX'; ./debian-build-ami aws --volume-size 8 --plugin plugins/admin-user --description 'Debian 7.0.0 (Wheezy)' --plugin plugins/publish-ami --plugin plugins/publish-snapshot --codename wheezy; ./debian-build-ami aws --volume-size 8 --plugin plugins/admin-user --description 'Debian 7.0.0 (Wheezy)' --arch i386 --plugin plugins/publish-ami --plugin plugins/publish-snapshot --codename wheezy; shutdown -h now

The full list of AMIs worldwide in the Debian AMI account are:

Virtualisation

Para-virtualisation (PVM)

Hardware Virtualisation (HVM)

Root filesystem

EBS

Instance store

EBS

Instance store

Region

32 bit

64 bit

32 bit

64 bit

32 bit

64 bit

32 bit

64 bit

US-East-1

US-West-1

US-West-2

EU-West-1

AP-Southeast-1

AP-Southeast-2

AP-Northeast-1

SA-East-1

All AMIs and their corresponding EBS snapshots are marked as public so can be inspected by any other AWS user.

AWS Marketplace Image Distribution