5 ways to maximize your cloud value with Red Hat solutions on AWS Marketplace

Using solutions from the world’s leading open source and hybrid cloud provider on the world's most popular cloud provider is simpler than you think.

A new strategic collaboration agreement with AWS will significantly expand availability of Red Hat offerings in AWS Marketplace, accelerating cloud modernization through virtualization and AI.

IT leaders face the dual challenge of pushing innovation while managing cost and complexity. With hybrid cloud environments becoming the standard, you must balance on-premise workloads with cloud-native development. With the scale and reach of cloud hosting from AWS, paired with the industry-leading hybrid tools from Red Hat that keep workloads consistent on (and off) cloud environments, the Red Hat options available on AWS Marketplace offer outstanding cloud value for your organization.

Purchasing Red Hat solutions through AWS Marketplace can be a win-win situation for your organization. For example, you can centralize billing and management within the familiar AWS ecosystem. Plus, Red Hat solutions on AWS Marketplace are eligible for AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) cloud committed spend, which can help you maximize your investment and streamline the procurement process while still getting the best solutions for your needs. This simplified access to Red Hat’s enterprise-grade solutions lays a strong foundation for building and managing hybrid cloud environments with confidence.

Red Hat solutions on AWS Marketplace provide flexibility, with multiple pricing and procurement options to suit diverse business needs. Depending on the product, organizations can choose from pay-as-you-go models, monthly or annual subscription commitments, or even private offers for tailored agreements. These options allow you to optimize costs, align with budget cycles, and scale resources as needed. This lets you invest in ways that match your needs while maintaining flexibility and control over your IT spend.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Gain more consistency across environments with an open, flexible infrastructure

Linux has long been the backbone of modern IT infrastructure, powering everything from datacenters to cloud-native applications. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), in combination with the AWS Cloud, offers robust functionality and always-on capacity, so you don’t have to maintain a heavy datacenter. Using consumption-based pricing, you can purchase on-demand RHEL directly from AWS and pay only for actual use or purchase directly through a private offer. Additionally, RHEL is adaptable across diverse environments. Its compatibility makes sure your applications run smoothly, whether in cloud environments or on premise, helping to future-ready your IT strategy.

Red Hat OpenShift: Simplify the way you build, deploy,  manage, and secure apps across the hybrid cloud

Red Hat OpenShift brings together a comprehensive set of tools and services that streamline the entire application lifecycle, from development to delivery to management of app workloads. And it’s available in a configuration right for your organization on AWS. This includes:

• Self-managed Red Hat OpenShift versions available through AWS Marketplace.
• Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, a fully managed application platform that is deployed and operated on AWS, jointly managed and supported by Red Hat, and available through the AWS console or AWS Marketplace through private offer, a contract type that allows your organization to negotiate savings by agreeing to a certain level of committed spend upfront.

Red Hat OpenShift of all varieties on AWS offers out-of-the-box services and tools that simplify the deployment and management of applications, yet maintain flexibility to integrate with other AWS services for a customized experience.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: Unite disparate tech, teams, and environments with a comprehensive automation platform

Automation has become a necessity for modern businesses, whether you're accelerating provisioning, migrating virtual machines (VMs), moving workloads to and from cloud environments, or tackling other routine yet critical tasks on AWS. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform helps you to streamline operations across your entire IT ecosystem. By automating repetitive processes, your teams can minimize human error and focus their time on strategic, high-value projects. With hundreds of automation playbooks specifically tested to integrate with AWS, Ansible Automation Platform provides the tools you need to optimize workflows in hybrid and cloud-native environments. You can choose between a subscription-only self-managed offering or a fully managed service, both conveniently available through AWS Marketplace.

Industry research firm Forrester Research named Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform the leader in The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q4 2024. Read the report.

Red Hat AI: Prepare for the future with a comprehensive, flexible open source platform

Every organization has a different maturity level when looking for artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions (AI/ML). The collaboration between Red Hat and AWS equips you with a comprehensive AI portfolio, designed to support every stage of your AI journey, from exploration to full-scale deployment.

Red Hat solutions for AI on AWS provide the flexibility, integration, and safeguards needed to power AI-driven innovation. With support for leading AI models such as OpenAI GPT-4, Meta Llama, and Mistral AI, and tools such as Red Hat OpenShift AI and IBM watsonx, organizations can use their preferred frameworks while benefiting from Red Hat’s robust infrastructure. OpenShift AI, for instance, offers a composable environment at home on AWS or in your own on-premise GPU banks.

Integration and interoperability are central to the Red Hat and AWS approach. Red Hat OpenShift integrates with tools such as Amazon SageMaker and watsonx, enabling streamlined workflows from model training to deployment. This capability helps you train models with your chosen tools and then deploy them consistently across hybrid cloud environments and the edge. Built-in safeguards further enhance these platforms, with AWS providing robust protections and certifications to safeguard business and customer data, and Red Hat’s security capabilities and operator lifecycle integration built into intelligent applications to simplify the deployment and maintenance of models.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: Migrate, accelerate, and streamline VM implementations

With the shifting marketplace for virtualization, your organization is likely to be measuring which virtualization solution is the best fit.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on AWS helps you effectively migrate VMs from their current virtualization platform to a fully managed modern application platform without disruption. And while your key priority with virtualization is to find a reliable alternative to your current virtualization platform, OpenShift Virtualization on AWS also allows containers and VMs to run next to each other on the same platform. This provides a direct pathway to modernize applications when you are ready to do so.

Next steps

Take the next step toward simplified procurement and optimized cloud spending. Visit the Red Hat solutions on AWS Marketplace to explore the portfolio and learn how it can empower your organization’s cloud journey.