Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions comes to public cloud marketplaces

Customers choose Red Hat solutions for their SAP environments because they trust in a consistent and reliable foundation, tailored to the needs of SAP workloads such as S/4HANA and SAP HANA platform.

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for SAP Solutions, including a high availability add-on and update services, now available in the AWS and Microsoft Azure marketplaces, we're bringing those same qualities to the way we deliver our broader RHEL offerings in the cloud. Marketplace access gives customers greater visibility into their organizations’ utilization, provides Tier 1 support directly from Red Hat and offers more predictable costs. Plus, customers with large public cloud instances benefit from a new capped pricing model.

RHEL for SAP Solutions is a workload-optimized  solution that helps reduce unplanned downtime in scale-up and scale-out SAP deployments. Using SAP HANA's native replication capabilities, it offers a standards-based approach for ensuring SAP application reliability in on-premise and cloud environments. 

Reliable solutions. Smoother access.

Red Hat and SAP have been partners for more than two decades. That experience has made RHEL for SAP Solutions a valuable solution for customers, maximizing uptime and ensuring support for whatever version of RHEL our SAP customers choose.

Features include:

• SAP-specific cluster infrastructure, administration tools and service management that boost availability for SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA, and SAP business applications
• Failover orchestration across environments running in one or more cloud zones
• Update services and support on specified minor releases for 4 years from general availability
• Red Hat Insights, bringing machine learning and real-time predictive analytics to proactive management and optimization
• RHEL live kernel patching to adhere to coherent business needs in regards to security and business continuity
• RHEL system roles for SAP to assist with remotely or locally configuring RHEL, before installing SAP HANA or SAP NetWeaver software. See RHEL System Roles for SAP for more information
• RHEL High Availability Add-On, including all necessary packages for configuring a pacemaker-based cluster that provides enhanced reliability, scalability and availability to critical production services

RHEL for SAP Solutions is the clear choice for customers who need to standardize on a scalable, reliable, security-focused operating foundation for their business-critical SAP workloads across all industries. In fact, organizations that use Red Hat solutions for SAP saw a 99% decrease in unplanned downtime, a 61% increase in IT infrastructure team efficiency and a 318% return on investment over five years, according to an IDC study commissioned by Red Hat.

For example use cases, read the case studies of organizations delivering supercomputing capabilities on a college campus, keeping a nation's train system running smoothly and serving utilities to local citizens.

Choose your marketplace

Organizations can simply go to the AWS Marketplace (North America/APAC or Europe) or Azure Marketplace (US/Global or Europe) and start spinning up new instances. Existing customers can continue to access their offerings through the marketplace consoles. To benefit from the new pricing model and direct Red Hat support, choosing the new marketplace offering is required. In either case, RHEL for SAP Solutions counts toward your committed spend programs with AWS or Azure, as well as toward Red Hat's Hybrid Committed Spend program.

Learn more about RHEL for SAP Solutions