On 26 April 2015 at 04:03, James Bromberger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Debian-Cloud, > > Here are the Debian Jessie 8.0 base AMIs for AWS EC2 in all current > regions: > > || '''Region''' || '''hvm x86_64 ebs''' || '''paravirtual x86_64 ebs''' || > || ap-northeast-1 || ami-ce5594ce || ami-56549556 || > || ap-southeast-1 || ami-fa4c70a8 || ami-8c4c70de || > || ap-southeast-2 || ami-c71d61fd || ami-2f1e6215 || > || eu-central-1 || ami-02724d1f || ami-28724d35 || > || eu-west-1 || ami-99f39eee || ami-8bf29ffc || > || sa-east-1 || ami-b7f97daa || ami-dbf97dc6 || > || us-east-1 || ami-144f4d7c || ami-ac4c4ec4 || > || us-west-1 || ami-0343ae47 || ami-db43ae9f || > || us-west-2 || ami-0d5b6c3d || ami-a7596e97 || > || cn-north-1 || ami-26d14c1f || - || > || us-gov-west-1 || ami-a7d3b284 || ami-a5d3b286 || > > > Please check the signature on this email to determine its authenticity and > integrity to confirm the AMI IDs you may wish to launch. This information > is also available here: > https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Jessie > > > > What about AWS Marketplace AMIs > ------------------------------- > Updates are shortly to be submitted to the AWS Marketplace team and will > be available after they have duplicated. The Debian entry in Marketplace is > here: > > https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=890be55d-32d8-4bc8-9042-2b4fd83064d5. > As at this time, there are over 12,000 AWS Customer accounts "subscribed" > to the Debian images via AWS Marketplace. > > > > Difference between the Marketplace AMIs and the Community AMIs > -------------------------------------------------------------- > The Marketplace AMIs are exact copies of those I generate in US-East-1. > They have separate AMI IDs as they are copied into the AWS Marketplace > account. One note is that AWS Marketplace AMIs cannot have their root > volume "detatched" for recovery. > > > > What's New > ---------- > 32-bit images are no longer provided as the underlying 32bit environments > are being deprecated by AWS. Please investigate multiarch for running > 32-bit binaries in 64-bit hosts. > > HVM images are now the preferred; PVM images are now deprecated by AWS; > however, we have produced a 64-bit PVM image to support customers > transitioning or currently holding long-term Reserved Instances. > > Enhanced Networking, also known as SR-IOV, is now enabled in all HVM > images. > http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking.html > > Support for multiple Elastic Network Interfaces; just add via the EC2 API > or Console, and these should be configured appropriately with no additional > configuration. > > Support for sub-interfaces; just add additional IP addresses via the EC2 > API or Console, and these should be configured appropriately with no > additional configuration. > > AWS Cli is installed by default. Jessie has AWS Cli version 1.4.2 > (package: awscli). > > In the base image, but not enabled by default, is apt-transport-https. > With some minor configuration, you can change a base AMI to use > https://cloudfront.debian.net instead of the default unencrypted > http://cloudfront.debian.net for your apt sources.list. If you're locking > down your egress traffic (perhaps via a Security Group), then you may feel > more comfortable enabling outbound port 443 instead of outbound 80. > > S3 backed AMIs; these are not currently produced for Jessie, but we'll > look to do this over the coming months. > > > > Thanks > ---------- > Massive thanks goes to Anders Ingemann, Thomas "Zigo" Giorand, Thomaz > Rybak, Marcin Kulisz, Charles Plessy, and everyone who helped the > bootzstrap-vz project, packaging cloud-init, packaging awscli and > python-boto, and testing AMIs. Also, thanks to AWS for paying for > http://cloudfront.debian.net/ (also with SSL at > https://cloudfront.debian.net/) which is in use now. For those looking > for updated ISO images, check out > http://cloudfront.debian.net/cdimage/release/. > > James > > -- > *Mobile:* +61 422 166 708, *Email:* james_AT_rcpt.to >
Those are great news James, thank you! S3 backed AMIs; these are not currently produced for Jessie, but we'll look > to do this over the coming months. The latest dev branch should support all unpartitioned PVM S3 images. I tried getting it to work with HVM and partitions, but it's just such a hassle, and I'm not sure anybody uses it anyways. Anders
