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 The simplest, recommended setup is to use libvirt on your local host. That needs at least 8 GB of RAM in your machine.
 If you need a lot of VMs or lack hardware you probably want using an external libvirt host with bridged networking is also possible.
 
-The Amazon Web Services backend has been developed for scalability tests of SUSE Manager and it is only currently used in that context.
+The Amazon Web Services backend is currently under maintainance and is not immediately usable as-is. We plan to restore it soon.
 
 ## Basic `main.tf` configuration