openSUSE Leap 42.1 is now available on Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Microsoft Azure. Leap has been available on EC2 & GCE since shortly after it release; the Azure release was delayed due to a qemu bug resulting in incorrectly formatted images. These images are maintained by SUSE’s Public Cloud Engineering Team. If you’d like to peek inside, they’re developed on Open Build Service (OBS), in the Cloud:Images project.

Amazon Web Services

For Amazon EC2, openSUSE Leap 42.1 is published for HVM, 64-bit, SSD-Backed instances. If you’re using the web portal, search for ‘leap’ in the openSUSE Community AMIs. If you’re using command line or automated tools, here are the AMI IDs:

Region Name Region AMI ID US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 ami-67aded0d US West (Oregon) us-west-2 ami-aa8e9dcb US West (N. California) us-west-1 ami-2a8ce54a EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 ami-c51bbfb6 EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 ami-e4657888 Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1 ami-da77b6b9 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1 ami-4b3a1625 Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2 ami-fa1c4499 Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2 ami-56dd1338 South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1 ami-2c4acf40

Google Cloud Platform

For Google Compute Engine, select the image “openSUSE Leap 42.1 x86_64” in any region.

Microsoft Azure

If you’re using the classic web portal, openSUSE Leap 42.1 will be on the list of SUSE images when you start a new virtual machine. Through the new portal, just search for “opensuse leap“ From the command line tools, depending on your process, access the Leap images either by the image name, or key attributes:

Image name b4590d9e3ed742e4a1d46e5424aa335e__suse-opensuse-leap-42.1-v20151217 Vendor SUSE Offer openSUSE-Leap SKU 42.1 Version 2016.01.14

Have a lot of virtual fun!