14 DAY TRIAL // openSUSE Project, through Douglas DeMaio, proudly announced the availability of the openSUSE Leap 42.2 operating system as virtual images on various popular cloud providers.
From the announcement, it would appear that OpenSuSE Leap 42.2 hit the cloud sometime last week on the AWS EC2 (Amazon Web Services) Marketplace, and cloud images also landed a couple of weeks ago for the Google Compute Engine (GCE), OpenStack, and Microsoft's Azure cloud providers.
"The project has been used extensively for cloud computing and we are excited that openSUSE is now listed in AWS Marketplace," said Richard Brown, openSUSE Chairman. "We thank all the cloud providers for working with the openSUSE community to make this possible."
In the announcement, openSUSE member James Mason informs end users who want to use the openSUSE Leap 42.2 operating system in the cloud that they can freely choose the provider that better suits their needs because the Linux OS is highly optimized for each of the supported cloud platforms to offer a consistent experience.
openSUSE Leap includes tools to make AWS image uploading and management easy
openSUSE Leap 42.2 is the latest and most advanced release of the openSUSE Leap series, which offers a rock-solid experience to users who don't want to use a rolling distro like openSUSE Tumbleweed with cutting-edge technologies. However, openSUSE Leap includes tools to make AWS image uploading and management (publish, delete, or deprecate) easy.
The openSUSE developers note the fact that AWS is the latest addition to the cloud images for openSUSE Leap 42.2, providing opportunities for businesses to use the community software shipped with the operating system on Amazon Web Services' Marketplace platform without them being charged hourly for any software instance.
AWS cloud images of the openSUSE operating system have been accessible for many years now, but only now can AWS customers use them directly from the AWS Marketplace. Additionally, AWS Cloud users will be able to run Docker containers with openSUSE Linux cloud images in a virtual machine (only tested with SLES 12).