Overview
Amazon Web Services® (AWS) is a cloud provider for organizations that want to respond to rapid change and scale reliably in the cloud. Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is the stable operating system (OS) that helps you meet the challenges of IT complexity and consistently deploy applications across different cloud environments. Whether you’re just getting started with Red Hat Enterprise Linux or want to bring your existing Red Hat infrastructure to AWS, Red Hat and AWS together offer solutions to help you transform your IT environment and operations for a cloud-based future.
Why use Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud?
Open hybrid cloud is an approach to cloud computing that allows organizations to take advantage of their existing IT strategy while setting themselves up for future advances in technology. Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud strategy, supported by open source technologies, allows for consistent interaction with any app in nearly any environment without retraining staff, splitting management, or sacrificing security.
Cloud challenges
Maybe you’ve already established your IT operations in the cloud, or maybe you're eyeing a migration from on-premise systems. Either way, you need to manage the scale and complexity of your cloud landscape, and that comes with a number of challenges:
- Establishing an IT infrastructure that will support both your application needs and your business goals.
- Finding an operating environment that doesn’t change with new deployment locations and helps to stop problems before they start.
- Managing the complexity of deploying and scaling in different environments.
- Finding tools that are available, secure and reliable wherever you want to use them.
To face these challenges, you need:
- An IT foundation that provides frictionless management and built-in automation.
- A secure path from development to production.
- Tools to move workloads across the open hybrid cloud.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the solution
Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides the common foundation needed to reduce overall IT complexity and support the migration of applications to different cloud environments. It supports:
- Simple and streamlined management with tooling that includes best practices and expert guidance.
- Consistent deployment across the hybrid cloud so IT teams don’t have to build additional skills for different environments.
- Seamless integration into the development lifecycle so any member of the development team can access what they need quickly. This facilitates a simple path to production without vendor lock-in.
A Red Hat subscription offers production-ready code, lifecycle management, software interoperability, and the flexibility to choose from multiple supported versions. It also gives you access to a community of experts, thousands of partners, knowledge resources, security updates, and support tools that you can't get anywhere else.
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Why Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AWS?
Combining Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AWS brings together the best of both offerings. Organizations get an intelligent, stable, and security-focused OS for modern, agile business operations. They also gain globally available and resizable cloud computing capacity for their workloads and applications.
Foundation for container strategy
Containers are Linux technologies. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the foundation of Red Hat’s container strategy, providing application mobility, proven enterprise security, and support at an enterprise scale.
Red Hat offers its solutions on AWS to ensure enterprises have easy integrations, support, and a consistent experience regardless of the workloads or applications you are running.
Supported container tools
Red Hat Enterprise Linux works with open source container tools Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo, allowing developers to easily spin up containers, manage deployment, and speed development of new applications in the cloud. Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI) provides developers pre-built images to consume a number of language runtimes. In many instances, developers can just use an image and start working on the application they are building. You can also let Red Hat build, maintain, and upload a Red Hat Gold Image, a type of Amazon Machine Image (AMI). You can deploy the AMI directly from your AWS console to quickly launch an image.
Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (Amazon EC2) with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud® (Amazon EC2) is a function of AWS that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, making it easier for developers to scale and change their computing requirements. Red Hat Enterprise Linux on EC2 combines the cost effectiveness, scalability and flexibility of Amazon EC2, the proven reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and premium support from both AWS and Red Hat. Red Hat Enterprise Linux integrates with existing Amazon EC2 features including Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon CloudWatch®, Elastic-Load Balancing, and Elastic IP addresses.
AWS provides updates as soon as Red Hat makes them available, so your computing environment remains reliable and protected. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux High-Availability Add-On is now available within the Amazon EC2 console.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AWS: Features and benefits
Simplified management
Award-winning tools from Red Hat and AWS automate and configure application management for everything from provisioning to scaling, policy enforcement, and decommissioning. Those tools include:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux web console, which saves time and simplifies daily administration of your systems with a user-friendly interface accessible even to new Linux users.
- Automated system roles. Automated operations optimize security groups and workflows and maintain them over time with minimal resources.
- Red Hat Package Manager (RPM), which helps users install, update, remove, and keep track of software packages and permissions from specific repositories in the Linux system.
Security features
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AWS verify consistency and security compliance through a few processes:
- The operating system must pass a validation process to be listed on AWS Marketplace.
- Red Hat and AWS also test and verify security profiles for all new versions of Red Hat products on AWS infrastructure.
- Artificial intelligence tools AWS Inspector and Red Hat Insights (included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux)—constantly monitor the enterprise environment.
Red Hat also provides linux kernel live patching to respond to vulnerabilities without disrupting your Linux instances. Red Hat also applies security updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux as soon as they are available. Its modular package structure reduces your attack surface and protects your systems in the cloud. These updates ensure reliability, protect user data, and fix security vulnerabilities as they are discovered.
Payment options
Red Hat works closely with AWS to provide convenient purchasing and pricing options.
- You can purchase Red Hat Enterprise Linux on demand directly from AWS marketplace and pay only for actual use. This pay-as-you-go option can help you free up valuable resources and concentrate them where most needed for modernization.
- Organizations can use theircommitted spend with AWS toward the purchase of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux qualifies for AWSEnterprise Discount Program (EDP), which offers special discounts and pricing when making the purchase on the AWS Marketplace.
- With Cloud Access, you can bring your own subscription to Red Hat Enterprise Linux or access it through AWS to streamline software procurement.
- Alternatively, you can work directly with Red Hat to develop a custom payment agreement tailored to your needs
Red Hat and AWS make cloud management more effective while providing the tools and integrated support organizations need to scale.
Flexibility
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has consistent performance and security in the cloud, on-premise, or at the edge. Today’s modern IT teams handle hybrid environments, with workloads deployed in whatever location necessary for performance, scale, and compliance.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is engineered to perform optimally on AWS, but it is also part of a much larger partner ecosystem. For instance, SAP® environments are certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, one of only two Linux distributions that bears that certification. This extensive ecosystem also provides freedom from vendor lock-in.
Portability
Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides AWS users with the same level of security, scalability, manageability, and reliability Red Hat users have come to expect from their more traditional on-premise deployments.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux on-premise customers can easily transfer their subscription to a cloud provider with Cloud Access. This option provides true portability and offers streamlined services like customizable images and simplified subscription management. Red Hat Enterprise Linux allows you to place workloads and data where it makes the most sense at all times. To ease deployment across clouds, the included image builder tool lets you create customized Red Hat Enterprise Linux images, save them as templates, and push them to cloud inventories.
Integration
Red Hat brings more than 25 years of Linux expertise and a broad portfolio of tools, solutions, and partners that work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For example, Red Hat Enterprise Linux tightly integrates with Red Hat OpenShift, an enterprise-ready Kubernetes container platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is also certified on AWS, giving users consistency across their infrastructure. Whether using Red Hat Enterprise Linux on AWS or on premise, enterprises can manage all of their applications and workloads with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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