Amazon EC2 Running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Amazon EC2 running SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 is a proven platform for development, test, and production workloads. With more than 6,000 certified applications from over 1,500 independent software vendors, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a versatile Linux platform that provides superior reliability and security. This offering comes with automatic maintenance that keeps the operating system up-to-date with SUSE’s most current security patches, bug fixes and new features to deliver peak performance.
Amazon EC2 running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server provides an easily manageable cloud environment and seamlessly integrates with existing Amazon EC2 features like Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon CloudWatch, Elastic-Load Balancing, and Elastic IPs. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server instances are available in all Availability Zones in all Regions.
Pricing
Pay only for what you use with no long-term commitments and no minimum fee.
On-Demand Instances
On-Demand Instances let you pay for compute capacity by the hour with no long-term commitments.
Pricing is per instance-hour consumed for each instance type. Partial instance-hours consumed are billed as full hours.
Reserved Instances
Reserved Instances give you the option to make a low, one-time payment for each instance you want to reserve and in turn receive a significant discount on the hourly charge for that instance.There are three Reserved Instance types (Light, Medium, and Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances) that enable you to balance the amount you pay upfront with your effective hourly price.The following tables display the Reserved Instance Prices.
Light Utilization Reserved Instances
Medium Utilization Reserved Instances
Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances
Reserved Instances can be purchased for 1 or 3 year terms, and the one-time fee per instance is non-refundable. Light and Medium Utilization Reserved Instances also are billed by the instance-hour for the time that instances are in a running state; if you do not run the instance in an hour, there is zero usage charge. Partial instance-hours consumed are billed as full hours. Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances are billed for every hour during the entire Reserved Instance term (which means you’re charged the hourly fee regardless of whether any usage has occurred during an hour). Click here to learn more about Reserved Instances.
Reserved Instance Volume Discounts
When you have purchased a sufficient number of Reserved Instances in an AWS Region, you will automatically receive discounts on your upfront fees and usage fees for future purchases of Reserved Instances in that AWS Region. Reserved Instance Tiers are determined based on the total list price (non-discounted price) of upfront fees for the active Reserved Instances you have per AWS Region. A complete list of the Reserved Instance Tiers is shown below:
Reserved Instance Volume Discounts |
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Total Reserved Instances |
Upfront Discount |
Hourly Discount |
Less than $250,000 |
0% |
0% |
$250,000 to $2,000,000 |
10% |
10% |
$2,000,000 to $5,000,000 |
20% |
20% |
More than $5,000,000 |
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For example, as soon as you have active Reserved Instances with total list price of upfront fees totaling more than $250,000 in a single AWS Region, you will automatically receive a 10% discount on both upfront and hourly fees for all future Reserved Instance purchases in that AWS Region, and those discounts will continue to apply to new Reserved Instances as long as you continue to qualify for the discount tier.
To illustrate, let's assume you currently have $200,000 worth of active Reserved Instances in us-east-1. You purchase 75 Reserved Instances at $1000 each. That's a total of $75,000. The first $50,000 of this purchase would be discounted at 0 percent. The remaining $25,000 of your purchase will be discounted by 10 percent, so you will only be charged $22,500 for it, and you will pay discounted hourly fees on those Reserved Instances.
To learn more about Reserved Instance Tiers, please visit the “Understanding Reserved Instance Tiers” portion of the Amazon EC2 User Guide.
Spot Instances
Spot Instances enable you to bid for unused Amazon EC2 capacity. Instances are charged the Spot Price, which is set by Amazon EC2 and fluctuates periodically depending on the supply of and demand for Spot Instance capacity. Click here to learn more about Spot Instances.
In order to view the latest Spot Instance pricing for EC2 running SUSE Linux Enterprise:
- Log in to the AWS Management Console, then click the “Amazon EC2” tab.
- Click on “Spot Requests” in the navigation pane on the left.
- Click on “Pricing History” to open a view of pricing selectable by instance type.
AWS GovCloud Region
AWS GovCloud is an AWS Region designed to allow U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. For pricing and more information on the new AWS GovCloud Region, please visit the AWS GovCloud Web Page.
Getting Started
To get started using SUSE Linux Enterprise on Amazon EC2, perform the following steps:- Open and log into the AWS Management Console
- Click on Launch Instance from the EC2 Dashboard
- Select the SUSE Linux Enterprise AMI from the QuickStart tab
- Specify additional details of your instance and click Launch
- Start using your instance! A detailed getting started guide can be found on each AMI’s Catalog Entry page.
The AWS Management Console is an easy tool to start and manage your instances. If you are looking for more details on launching an instance, a quick video tutorial on how to use Amazon EC2 with the AWS Management Console can be found here .
A full list of SUSE Linux Enterprise AMIs can be found in the AWS AMI Catalog.
Support
If you are an AWS support customer, you will receive support for infrastructure related issues directly from AWS. You can also purchase supplemental priority support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server directly for issues that pertain to the underlying operating system (Customers in the Americas and Asia, Customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa).
About SUSE
SUSE is a leader in intelligent workload management. Through its portfolio of WorkloadIQ solutions, SUSE helps organizations securely deliver and manage computing services across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. SUSE’s solutions for identity and security, systems management, collaboration and Linux-based operating platforms help customers reduce the cost, complexity, and risk associated with their IT systems. With its infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, SUSE integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one.
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