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How it Works

Cloud computing services with Red Hat provides you hosted, on-demand, managed, compute resources available as a web service. Red Hat has partnered with Amazon to provide publicly accessible servers, bandwidth, storage, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on a monthly/hourly basis. This dynamic set of compute resources allows you to scale your compute resources up and down as your needs change, without upfront investment in hardware or software.

When you run servers in the cloud, you are using instances of Red Hat enterprise software running on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) web service. You have complete access to the server via secure network interfaces and can perform any configuration, management, or development tasks you would normally perform on a remotely accessible server.

As part of this service, Red Hat populates the cloud with virtual machine images which can be readily instantiated with one simple command line interface or via a Firefox extension. Once instantiated, you are able to access your server with standard utilities (such as SSH) from a client machine, add and remove any software and services you wish to perform, and transfer data to and from the servers. You have complete control.

To use Red Hat enterprise software in the cloud, you will:

  • Subscribe via Amazon Web Services to gain access to certified Red Hat software.
  • Configure your client machine with utilities to manage servers in the cloud.
  • Determine the size of servers (Small, Large, Extra-Large) you wish to run.
  • Start, stop, and manage servers within the cloud.