Buster in the AWS Marketplace

When buster was first released back in early July of last year, the cloud team was in the process of setting up some new accounts with AWS to be used for AMI publication. For various reasons, the accounts we used for pre-buster releases were considered unsuitable for use long term, and the buster release was considered to be a good logical point to make the switch. Unfortunately, issues within the bureaucracy of both SPI/Debian and AWS delayed the complete switch to the new accounts. We have been publishing buster AMIs using a new account since September of 2019, but we have not been able to list them with the AWS Marketplace. This has reduced the visibility and discoverability of the AMIs and lead to numerous questions on the mailing lists and other forums.

I’m happy to announce today that the issues blocking Marketplace publication have finally been resolved, and buster is officially available in the AWS Marketplace. Please use it, please leave us ratings and reviews in the Marketplace, and most importantly, please feel welcome to contribute to the Debian cloud team.

As always, if you’d rather get the latest details from the Debian wiki, they’re available, or you can query the AWS API directly, e.g. using the awscli command as follows:

$ aws ec2 describe-images --owner 136693071363 \
--region us-east-1 --output json \
--query "Images[?Architecture=='arm64'] | [?starts_with(Name, 'debian-10-')] | max_by([], &Name)"
{
    "Architecture": "arm64",
    "CreationDate": "2020-02-10T19:04:55.000Z",
    "ImageId": "ami-031d1abcdcbbfbd8f",
    "ImageLocation": "136693071363/debian-10-arm64-20200210-166",
    "ImageType": "machine",
    "Public": true,
    "OwnerId": "136693071363",
    "State": "available",
    "BlockDeviceMappings": [
        {
            "DeviceName": "/dev/xvda",
            "Ebs": {
                "Encrypted": false,
                "DeleteOnTermination": true,
                "SnapshotId": "snap-0d8459c1e3fe12486",
                "VolumeSize": 8,
                "VolumeType": "gp2"
            }
        }
    ],
    "Description": "Debian 10 (20200210-166)",
    "EnaSupport": true,
    "Hypervisor": "xen",
    "Name": "debian-10-arm64-20200210-166",
    "RootDeviceName": "/dev/xvda",
    "RootDeviceType": "ebs",
    "SriovNetSupport": "simple",
    "VirtualizationType": "hvm"
}

Hopefully this helps reduce some of the confusion around the availability of the buster AMIs.

Next up, GovCloud!

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