When Azure cloud users have run workloads using SUSE Linux in the past, they used the same SUSE Linux off-the-shelf products that are available to all IT users. Their workloads ran well, but they weren’t running on SUSE versions specifically honed to run on Azure.
That’s changing, as SUSE has unveiled a new Azure-optimized version of its SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 operating system, designed to increase Azure workload performance by leaving out non-essential code that users don’t require when running in the cloud.
