CentOS 7 End of Life doesn’t have to mean the End of Road. With SUSE, it means Choice Happens.

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[2] redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-red-hat-completely-changing-cloud-landscape-and-becoming-worlds-1-hybrid-cloud-provider
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What’s SUSE Liberty Linux

SUSE has published numerous blogs and documentations to introduce the value of SUSE Liberty. You can find some of the examples. 

CentOS Future: Stability and Security Without Migration
Announcing the New SUSE Liberty Linux Lite for CentOS 7 Offer

This blog will focus on the specific offering of SUSE Liberty Linux on AWS, for CentOS 7 customers.

SUSE Liberty Linux on AWS

Two flavors for CentOS 7 Customers

Among the 4 options of SUSE Liberty Linux, two are customized for CentOS customers.

Promotion and pricing on AWS Marketplace

Pricing info including the promotion is available on AWS Marketplace: SUSE Liberty Linux

Take advantage of the promotion till Dec 31, 2024 to save up to 70%, as low as $10 per node per year!

Benefits of SUSE Liberty Linux on AWS

Keep your number, just switch your subscription to SUSE and that is all!

• Use your committed spend: This is important for customers who don’t have additional budget outside of their committed spend with AWS.
• Long Life Support (LTSS): Continued service of proactive updates for CentOS 7
• Fully compatible: Fully compatible, regular releases of security patches and maintenance updates
• No disruption: Switch in-place for your existing CentOS systems, no migration is needed
• Install new: Continue with today’s operating environment for scaling workloads. SUSE provides Liberty BYOS images on AWS to spin up new instances when needed

SUSE Liberty Linux Lifecycle Support

Procurement

1. Evaluate: Customer evaluates the business case

• Determines the quantity of the CentOS instances
• Determines the term of SUSE Liberty Linux, e.g. 1-year vs 3-year

2. Inquiry: Customer emails cloudsales@suse.com with the following information

• AWS Account ID
• Company Name
• Contact Person
• Email Address
• Quantity & term

3. Private Offer: SUSE crafts the quote for customer approval

• SUSE issues Private Offer
• Customer signs the private offer

4. Apply AWS Credit: Request credits* from AWS to be applied to the customer’s EC2 instances. * Conditions apply, please check with AWS for eligibility

Implementation

SUSE Liberty Linux Lite can be implemented by using RMT (Repository Mirroring Tool). SUSE Liberty Linux Basic can be implemented using either RMT or SUSE Manager. The deployment and registration process is outlined in the SUSE documentation. Below is the high level overview of RMT based implementation on AWS.

Please note that the first step is specific to AWS by launching a BYOS SLES 15 instance. A SLES entitlement is included in the SUSE Liberty, so you don’t need to launch a PAYG SLES instance to pay for the software. Instructions on deploying a SLES instance to support RMT on AWS can be found here.

Registering RHEL 7 or CentOS Linux 7 with RMT: https://documentation.suse.com/liberty/7/single-html/quickstart/index.html
Registering RHEL or CentOS Linux with SUSE Manager: https://documentation.suse.com/suma/4.3/en/suse-manager/client-configuration/clients-sleses.html

Support

• Customers identify issues and first rule out AWS infra issues that need support from AWS
• Open Support Ticket with SUSE
• SUSE provides support directly to Liberty LTSS, on BYOS CentOS, as well as free PAYG CentOS instances

Contact

For any questions related to the sales of SUSE Liberty Linux, please feel free to contact cloudsales@suse.com for more information.

Fill out the form for a private offer on AWS Marketplace