Debian Squeeze Amazon Images
Camptocamp manages and shares with the community a list of Amazon EC2 Images (AMI) running Debian Squeeze (6.0.x). These images are very basic installations that serve as building blocks for your custom configurations.
Our goal is to continue the effort put forth in the past by Eric Hammond of Alestic to create Debian Lenny images for the community. We are building on his work to bring you the most useful images possible.
We currently offer instance store images in all five EC2 regions, in 32 and 64 bits. We are also working on providing EBS based images as well.
Latest Images
| us-west-1 | us-east-1 | eu-west-1 | ap-southeast-1 | ap-northeast-1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32 bits | ami-aa46b4c3 | ami-a30655e6 | ami-17447363 | ami-68c4ba3a | ami-a0e44ea1 |
| 64 bits | ami-de46b4b7 | ami-a70655e2 | ami-2b44735f | ami-6ac4ba38 | ami-9ee44e9f |
Generated on 03/23/2011
We do not provide any guarantee or support for these images, but we are using them ourselves on dozens of instances for our own good and for our customers'. We consider them production ready.
Kernel
To build these instances, we use the latest Ubuntu kernels from the images provided by Amazon. This allows us to concentrate on maintaining the base system while relying on tried-and-true kernels.
File System
These instances use the Ext4 file system for the root disk as well as the ephemeral storage volumes.
Building and startup scripts
We forked the intance building and instance startup scripts from Eric Hammond, and made them work with Debian Squeeze. We generally dropped the support of anything else but Squeeze to simplify maintenance.
These scripts are publicly available on our github account:
https://github.com/camptocamp/ec2debian-build-ami
Feedback
Of course, we welcome your feedback about these images. The best way to do so is by creating "issues" on the repository above on github, or on our blog post here.
About Amazon EC2 Images
AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) are snapshot of Amazon EC2 Instances which can be used to launch instances (virtual servers) in minutes in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. Learn more about AWS.
At Camptocamp, we use the Amazon infrastructure to host various web applications and development platforms. The flexibility of this infrastructure, as well as a great expertise in dynamic server configuration using Puppet allows us to answer our customers' wildest dreams very quickly, to scale our own hosting infrastructure in real time, and to duplicate or rebuild the whole infrastructure in a matter of days.