(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Offering hourly based pricing and support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11, Amazon Web Services (aws.amazon.com) is now giving customers and independent software vendors of all sizes the ability to run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (known as Amazon EC2).
According to the Thursday announcement from infrastructure software developer Novell (www.novell.com), SLES will be available in all instance sizes and in each AWS region worldwide as part of Novel’s SUSE Cloud Program, designed to deliver innovative intelligent workload management solutions. Novell will also provide a maintenance service on AWS so that customers can keep their instances up-to-date with Novell’s most current security patches, bug fixes and new features.
“Amazon Web Services provides enterprise customers with secure, reliable and utility priced computing infrastructure as an on demand service,” Amazon Web Services business development director Terry Wise said in a statement. “We are pleased to see Novell providing an easy way for customers to leverage the enterprise-class SUSE Linux distribution on the Amazon EC2 platform. This offering provides enterprise customers and ISVs with a commercially maintained and supported Linux distribution that is easy-to-use and purchase.”
Novell enables Amazon EC2 users to purchase maintenance subscriptions for enterprise Linux instances directly on Amazon EC2 without first signing a separate license agreement. Through the SUSE Cloud Program, service providers can also enhance SUSE Linux Enterprise Server instances by either reselling Novell’s technical support or delivering their own support services backed by Novell’s expertise.
With the SUSE Cloud Program and tools like SUSE Studio, Novell helps cloud vendors offer differentiated services that speed customer acquisition. For enterprises, this added cloud functionality means that businesses can have a common Linux platform across the physical and virtual environments behind their firewall, and then a pay-for-use version of that Linux in the cloud.
“We are pleased that industry leaders like Amazon Web Services are able to leverage the SUSE Cloud Program to provide even more choices to their customers,” Novell open platform solutions senior vice president and general manager Markus Rex said in a statement. In addition to Amazon Web Services, service provider partners who have joined the SUSE Cloud Program include Fujitsu, IBM,Tencent and Vodacom Business.
“Through the SUSE Cloud Program, Novell is offering cloud providers a versatile Linux platform, complete with certified Linux applications and a robust solution for building cloud-based workloads in SUSE Studio. This program further extends Novell’s leadership in the intelligent workload management market.”
In June, Novell expanded its strategic partnership with virtualization solutions provider VMware (www.vmware.com) through an agreement that enables VMware to distribute and support the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system. VMware also intends to standardize its virtual appliance-based product offerings on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. This would give a subscription to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server that includes patches and updates for customers deploying SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware in VMware vSphere virtual machines.
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