Friday Five — December 5, 2025

Red Hat to deliver enhanced AI inference across AWS

Red Hat collaborates with AWS to power enterprise-grade gen AI on AWS with Red Hat AI and AWS AI silicon. With this collaboration, Red Hat focuses on empowering IT decision-makers with the flexibility to run high-performance, efficient AI inference at scale, regardless of the underlying hardware. Learn more

Technically Speaking with Chris Wright: Platform engineering for AI agents ft. Tushar Katarki

As we move from chatbots to autonomous AI agents, complexity is exploding. Red Hat’s Tushar Katarki joins Chris Wright to discuss building a "Kubernetes for Agents," the importance of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and how to engineer platforms that get AI out of PoC purgatory and into production. Learn more

Optimizing cloud spend with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)

Rising virtualization costs, licensing constraints, and operational complexity are driving teams to evaluate more flexible and cost-effective paths to the cloud. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, combined with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, supports hardware overcommit in the cloud, allowing customers to run more VMs on fewer cloud resources. Learn more

The New Stack: Red Hat's Hummingbird project to offer Linux container images 

Red Hat will provide hardened container images to free and paying customers with new Project Hummingbird to help support “zero-CVE” software builds. The service releases to select customers in December ahead of a full rollout. Learn more

Techzine EU: Red Hat sees AI and sovereignty reshaping hybrid cloud

Red Hat is positioning its open source platform as the foundation for companies navigating AI adoption and digital sovereignty. In a recent interview Ashesh Badani explained how the over-25-year-old open source philosophy now applies to the AI era, where choice and control matter more than ever. Learn more