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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a modern, modular operating system for both multimodal and traditional IT.
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on Amazon EC2 is a proven platform for development, test, and production workloads. This offering comes with automatic maintenance connected to SUSE's Public Cloud Update Infrastructure that keeps the operating system up-to-date with SUSE's most current security patches, bug fixes and new features to deliver peak performance. The platform cost includes a charge for the use of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscription.
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- Save up to 70% with SLES Reserved Instances on Amazon EC2
- The Public Cloud Module provides a collection of tools that enables you to create and manage cloud images from the command line on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
- The Web and Scripting Module delivers a comprehensive suite of scripting languages, frameworks and related tools, helping developers and systems administrators accelerate the creation of stable, modern web applications by using dynamic languages, such as PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Python.
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Suse Enterprise Server 12
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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There are two ways that you can configure a system to run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The first is to boot an instance running SUSE Linux in Amazon EC2. Once your image is running, you can use all of the standard SUSE tools including YaST and zypper to add packages and configure the system.
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Medical Devices
Very good Linux distribution, which try to achieve the goal to be the first choose for everyone
Reviewed on Sep 24, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use, with a lot of GUI/CLI configurators under YaST. In standard use cases, it's great.
Stable in standard use.
Stable in standard use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes other products vendors doesn't support SUSE Linux family.
Documentation in many cases still are not so good like in other Linux distributions vendors, but it's visible, that SUSE work a lot for changing this state.
Documentation in many cases still are not so good like in other Linux distributions vendors, but it's visible, that SUSE work a lot for changing this state.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our SLES installation is working as a stable platform for SAP environment.
Cory W.
SLES: It just works
Reviewed on Sep 23, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
SLES is a very reliable product that makes my job easier. Patching is easy and reliable, an so is the OS.
What do you dislike about the product?
Third-party products don't always support this OS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SLES provides a reliable OS for our products and services. It has fewer update and compatibility challenges than the other Linux OSes that we support.
Raghavendra K.
SLES an modular Linux OS
Reviewed on Sep 23, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use
Customer Support
Number of Features
Stability
Ease of Implementation
Customer Support
Number of Features
Stability
Ease of Implementation
What do you dislike about the product?
No GenAI ready
Integration with other Eco system
Integration with other Eco system
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SLES is one of the stable OS especially for SAP workloads and also the Rancher K8S.
Oriol R.
The advantages of open source with the benefits of enterprise-grade support
Reviewed on Sep 22, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I’ve had a very positive experience with SUSE because it’s a highly robust operating system.
Its stability, reliability, and enterprise-grade capabilities, make it an excellent choice for organizations that need a solid platform.
In addition, the support is very professional and efficient whenever it’s needed. I know that SUSE has recently improved its support service through the SCC portal, which makes the overall experience even stronger and more reliable.
Currently, SUSE 15 SP7 offers a very high LTS (Long-Term Support), which greatly simplifies the server lifecycle in terms of updates, allowing organizations to stay up-to-date without having to perform major release upgrades.
Its stability, reliability, and enterprise-grade capabilities, make it an excellent choice for organizations that need a solid platform.
In addition, the support is very professional and efficient whenever it’s needed. I know that SUSE has recently improved its support service through the SCC portal, which makes the overall experience even stronger and more reliable.
Currently, SUSE 15 SP7 offers a very high LTS (Long-Term Support), which greatly simplifies the server lifecycle in terms of updates, allowing organizations to stay up-to-date without having to perform major release upgrades.
What do you dislike about the product?
I had occasionally encountered situations where a package from the official repositories (PHP, for example) was behind the latest active version. Although these packages were maintained with security updates, I had to keep an application running without being able to upgrade to the latest version due to the repository limitations.
Earlier versions had a short lifecycle, but this has been resolved with SUSE 15 SP7, which now offers a much longer Long-Term Support (LTS), simplifying server maintenance and updates
Earlier versions had a short lifecycle, but this has been resolved with SUSE 15 SP7, which now offers a much longer Long-Term Support (LTS), simplifying server maintenance and updates
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SUSE has stability and strong security, which keep critical applications running and data well protected. Its official repositories are extensive, providing a wide range of packages and resources. On top of that, SLES follows the open source philosophy, offering flexibility and transparency.
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Stable enterprise Linux with strong support
Reviewed on Sep 21, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The professional support, up-to-date kernel, and overall stability make SLES a solid choice for production systems. Having a recent kernel boosts performance a lot.
What do you dislike about the product?
The package ecosystem is smaller than on other distros, and some third‑party solutions don’t provide native support for it, which can add extra steps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are running SAP along with more "standard" workloads, including PHP and Java open source projects from GitHub. The stability and vendor backing let us focus on development instead of troubleshooting the platform.