Safe to delete files in /usr/lib/debug?

I've created a few FreeBSD VMs under AWS (EC2 and Lightsail) and they each have ~1.8 GB of files under /usr/lib/debug immediately upon VM creation. I'd like to free up precious disk space -- are these files safe to delete?

The files have a creation date months earlier than when the VM was created. I'm wondering if they were files that got accidentally included when they made the VM master image.

Here's some ncdu screens digging down into some of these folders for context:

Code:
--- /usr/lib -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    1.8 GiB [#################] /debug

--- /usr/lib/debug -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                /..
    1.3 GiB [#################] /usr
  473.5 MiB [######           ] /boot
   38.5 MiB [                 ] /lib
   19.2 MiB [                 ] /sbin
    3.0 MiB [                 ] /bin
  684.0 KiB [                 ] /libexec

--- /usr/lib/debug/usr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                /..
  966.9 MiB [#################] /bin
  197.3 MiB [###              ] /tests
   62.2 MiB [#                ] /lib32
   56.9 MiB [#                ] /lib
   44.5 MiB [                 ] /sbin
    7.1 MiB [                 ] /libexec

--- /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                /..
  252.2 MiB [#################]  clang.debug
  219.8 MiB [##############   ]  lldb.debug
  139.0 MiB [#########        ]  ld.lld.debug
  134.2 MiB [#########        ]  lldb-server.debug
   23.9 MiB [#                ]  llvm-objdump.debug
   23.5 MiB [#                ]  llvm-readobj.debug
   21.7 MiB [#                ]  llvm-nm.debug
   21.4 MiB [#                ]  llvm-ar.debug
   18.6 MiB [#                ]  llvm-cov.debug
   18.1 MiB [#                ]  llvm-objcopy.debug
   18.0 MiB [#                ]  llvm-symbolizer.debug
   15.8 MiB [#                ]  llvm-size.debug
   15.6 MiB [#                ]  kyua.debug
    9.7 MiB [                 ]  llvm-profdata.debug
    3.5 MiB [                 ]  dtc.debug
    2.7 MiB [                 ]  llvm-cxxfilt.debug
    2.7 MiB [                 ]  llvm-strings.debug
    1.9 MiB [                 ]  nvi.debug
    1.4 MiB [                 ]  openssl.debug
    1.1 MiB [                 ]  mandoc.debug
  800.0 KiB [                 ]  ntpq.debug
  736.0 KiB [                 ]  bc.debug
  704.0 KiB [                 ]  make.debug
  512.0 KiB [                 ]  ssh.debug
  480.0 KiB [                 ]  less.debug
  448.0 KiB [                 ]  ztest.debug
  380.0 KiB [                 ]  lex.debug
  364.0 KiB [                 ]  systat.debug
  328.0 KiB [                 ]  objcopy.debug
 
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