Amazon EC2 running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 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.

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.