Amazon EC2 running SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 from SUSE 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.

SUSE has also included a technical Preview of Docker in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12. Leveraging the SUSE ecosystem, Linux Containers and Docker are great ways to build, deploy and manage applications and can be used with tools like Open Build Services and KIWI for easy and powerful image building.

This image uses 64-bit architecture, and HVM based virtualization for use with Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instances. The Nvidia driver installs automatically during startup on Cluster GPU instances.
Note - If you intend to run SLES for SAP on Reserved Instances, make sure to purchase them in EC2 Console using Linux/Unix or Linux/Unix (Amazon VPC) as Platform selection. SUSE Linux Platform option is only relevant for running regular SLES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AsztZ7biT0&feature=youtu.be