Partners: Red Hat and Microsoft
Operate in a hybrid cloud environment with flexibility and support
Red Hat and Microsoft offer an open enterprise hybrid cloud approach with unified platforms, services, and support to help organizations manage operations and workloads with greater control and consistency across environments.
Building the future of hybrid cloud together
Red Hat and Microsoft understand the complexity of hybrid cloud. In partnership since 2015, we are committed to providing pre-integrated solutions that deliver high availability, reliability, and performance for demanding applications in hybrid cloud environments.
Red Hat's hybrid cloud approach delivered on Microsoft Azure provides the choice, flexibility, and support needed to operate modern IT practices and meet ever-changing customer expectations.
Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides a fully managed application platform that helps you adopt a hybrid cloud approach with minimal disruption, reduced complexity, and greater flexibility—all while lowering overall operational costs.
Red Hat and Microsoft partnership
| Migrate, virtualize, and modernize with flexibility |
| Simplify and automate hybrid operations |
| Strengthen security focus, compliance and sovereign controls |
| Optimize investments, purchasing, and support |
| Build and scale enterprise AI |
See why analysts highlight Red Hat on Microsoft Azure
Independent analyst research underscores how Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Azure Red Hat OpenShift help organizations modernize with consistency and control.
Migration and modernization considerations for applications
This Omdia paper explores how application modernization has become an urgent operational priority—driven by rising licensing costs, expanding AI workloads, and skills gaps—and how Microsoft and Red Hat help teams modernize with Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
Why your operating system choice is a strategic decision
This Omdia white paper examines the cost and risk of OS fragmentation in hybrid environments and makes the case for a unified enterprise Linux layer—highlighting Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Microsoft Azure for hybrid consistency, skills reuse, and integrated support.
Build and scale on Azure Red Hat OpenShift
Use a jointly engineered, fully managed application platform to deploy containerized and AI-enabled workloads on Azure with integrated Microsoft services and shared operational responsibility.
Modernize and scale AI on Azure
See how Red Hat and Microsoft help organizations modernize traditional infrastructure, accelerate application delivery, and operationalize AI on Azure—with a practical guide organized around innovation, efficiency, and risk.
Run Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Microsoft Azure
Deploy a certified, Azure-optimized enterprise Linux foundation with built-in security, observability, and procurement flexibility—including options that can count toward Azure consumption commitments.
Tap into the capabilities of the full Red Hat solution portfolio
Combine the broad portfolio of Red Hat solutions—including hybrid cloud infrastructure, application services, cloud-native application development, and automation solutions—to deliver IT services in less time and with greater cost efficiency in any environment.
Manage flexible deployments with consistency
Gain the flexibility of a cloud-native strategy with Kubernetes on a consistent application platform ready to manage hybrid cloud, multicloud, and edge deployments—available as a fully-managed or self-managed offering.
Operate confidently in a shared environment
Create consistency across infrastructure with a robust, adaptable platform to reduce application deployment friction and speed up time to value for critical workloads—available as Microsoft Azure-integrated or stand-alone deployments.
Benefit from organization-wide automation
Implement a holistic automation approach across your organization on a managed application that is fully supported by Red Hat, including the tools you need to start automating with minimal setup.
Deliver applications faster from anywhere
Benefit from simplified deployment on an application platform optimized for cloud environments and containerization, with lightweight architecture that provides the flexibility to deploy in any environment.
Success story
Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift powers scalable generative AI at Banco Bradesco
Banco Bradesco, one of Brazil’s largest private financial groups, built a scalable generative AI platform on Microsoft Azure Red Hat® OpenShift® to boost innovation while meeting strict regulatory requirements. Using the platform, the bank can launch new generative AI projects faster, which help it achieve its business goals for greater efficiency, faster support, and more personalized customer services.
Get started with Red Hat on Microsoft Azure
Discover more about the benefits of using Red Hat solutions on Microsoft Azure or contact a Red Hatter to get started.
