SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 on Google Cloud

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is an open, secure, compliant, and future-ready Linux server platform built to support enterprise business continuity on Google Cloud.

SLES enables organizations to integrate and manage diverse environments with ease—reducing operational complexity, increasing agility, and accelerating digital transformation across the Google Cloud ecosystem.

Key Benefits

• Future-ready IT with industry-leading support: Up to 19 years of support per version, ensuring long-term stability and predictability.

• Lower operational risk: Advanced rollback for updates and configurations, live patching, and unmatched long-term support.

• Truly open platform: Eliminates costly proprietary licensing and minimizes vendor lock-in.

• Simplified security and compliance: Common Criteria EAL4+ certified secure software supply chain and FIPS 140-3 compliance.

• Next-generation encryption: Built-in post-quantum cryptography with OpenSSL 3.1.

• Cloud-ready for regulated industries: Supports Confidential Computing on Google Cloud.

• Deploy anywhere: Run consistently across cloud, data center, and edge environments—physical, virtual, or containerized.

• Simplified IT operations: A common code base helps break down silos and standardize environments.

• Faster innovation: Empowers DevOps teams with open source technologies and automation.

• Optimized for Google Cloud: Performance-, security-, and reliability-tuned images that are ready to run on Google Cloud.

• Foundation for cloud-native applications: Secure and compliant Base Container Images (SLE BCI) designed for container workloads.

SUSE on Google Cloud combines the flexibility of open source with Google Cloud’s global infrastructure, scalability, and robust security—delivering a powerful foundation for modern enterprise workloads.