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GitHub Action runner images (AMI) for AWS EC2

As part of the RunsOn service, we automatically maintain and publish replicas of the official GitHub runner images ↗ images as AWS-formatted images (AMIs) in this repository: https://github.com/runs-on/runner-images-for-aws ↗.

New images are automatically released every 2 weeks, and are slightly trimmed to remove outdated software, or (mostly useless) caches.

Supported images

  • ubuntu22-full-x64
  • ubuntu22-full-arm64
  • ubuntu24-full-x64
  • ubuntu24-full-arm64

Supported regions

  • North Virginia (us-east-1)
  • Ohio (us-east-2)
  • Oregon (us-west-2)
  • Ireland (eu-west-1)
  • London (eu-west-2)
  • Paris (eu-west-3)
  • Frankfurt (eu-central-1)
  • Mumbai (ap-south-1)
  • Tokyo (ap-northeast-1)
  • Singapore (ap-southeast-1)
  • Sydney (ap-southeast-2)

Find the AMI

For the x86_64 image, search for:

  • name: runs-on-v2.2-<IMAGE_ID>-*
  • owner: 135269210855

For instance, for the ubuntu22-full-x64 image, search for:

  • name: runs-on-v2.2-ubuntu22-full-x64-*
  • owner: 135269210855

Notes

  • SSH daemon is disabled by default, so be sure to enable it in a user-data script if needed.

You can find more details on https://github.com/runs-on/runner-images-for-aws ↗.