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Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud

Wherever your cloud journey takes you, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is there.

The world’s leading enterprise Linux distribution is certified on hundreds of public clouds, delivering security, reliability, and consistency inside and outside the datacenter. Standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides flexibility for your business, meeting your current needs while preparing you for whatever challenges the future brings.

Not all Linux distributions are the same. Learn 5 reasons why choosing the right operating system in the cloud is essential.

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Cloud-optimized Red Hat Enterprise Linux offerings now available on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud

Now available with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, our cloud-optimized Red Hat Enterprise Linux offerings provide jointly-engineered, integrated, and supported images across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. These offerings are tailored to specific hyperscaler environments, providing users with pre-tuned, ready-to-run images to more seamlessly build, deploy, and manage workloads in the cloud.

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Why choose Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud?

Flexibility

Quickly scale your capacity up and down as needed to save on infrastructure and maintenance costs.

Security

Receive critical security features like live kernel patching as part of a 10-year product lifecycle. Detect and remediate emerging threats with Red Hat Lightspeed (formerly Red Hat Insights) and Red Hat Satellite. Red Hat's cloud-optimized offerings provide secure boot and image attestation to help ensure workloads run on the latest security technologies.

Support

Access first-line support from your cloud provider and benefit from Red Hat’s award-winning support team for higher priority issues, all with 24/7 access to self-service help through our knowledgebase.

Consistency

Deploy and build on a stable surface without worrying about the underlying technology. Access unified management tools across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments to help you reduce staff retraining time. And minimize infrastructure drift by deploying with image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Development

Developers gain access to tested and reliable OS images that are pre-tuned for each major cloud provider, along with the toolchains, libraries, container tools, and runtimes that ease friction on the way to production.

Focus on business goals in the cloud

Read what top analysts are saying about Red Hat Enterprise Linux

IDC

The Business Value of Red Hat Solutions Versus Non-Paid Open Source Alternatives

Red Hat customers will achieve benefits worth an annual average of 9ドル.38 million per organization, according to analyst firm IDC.

IDC

Why Enterprise Linux Is Becoming More Relevant for Hybrid Cloud

PeerSpot

5 reasons to choose Red Hat Enterprise Linux as your Linux solution

ESG

Securing hybrid cloud environments

Red Hat Enterprise Linux by the numbers

52%

Faster security updates1

72%

Less unplanned downtime1

540%

3-year return on investment1

  1. Value of Red Hat solutions vs. non-paid alternatives, March 2023

How to get Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud

Purchase from a cloud marketplace

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for AWS

Combine Red Hat Enterprise Linux with globally available, resizable, and on-demand cloud computing capacity from Amazon Web Services.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Microsoft Azure

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Azure, you can quickly deploy a more secure, reliable, and flexible hybrid cloud environment.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Google Cloud

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the secure foundation for business operations on Google Cloud, certified to handle diverse workloads across hybrid environments.

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Use your spend commitments

Make the most of your Red Hat investment

Red Hat’s Hybrid Committed Spend (HCS) program offers discounts on Red Hat products across multiple cloud providers and in your data center. Many cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, have their own committed spend programs you can participate in simultaneously, drawing against both commitments to further reduce your costs. Talk to a Red Hat sales representative about how to maximize your value.

Move an existing Red Hat subscription

Portability for your Red Hat subscriptions

Move an existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription to the cloud without changing your access to support, your current IT investment, or your subscription terms.

Migrate from CentOS Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud

Developer Subscription for Teams

Is your organization running Red Hat Enterprise Linux in its production environment? Your development teams may qualify for this subscription at no additional cost, allowing them to build and test applications on the same innovative and reliable platform used for production workloads.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Third Party Linux Migration

This new offering makes Red Hat Enterprise Linux more accessible to CentOS Linux users with a competitively priced subscription, a simplified conversion process, and up to 4 years of security patches and updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 after you convert, helping you maintain consistency in your environment until you’re ready to upgrade to a newer version.

Supporting database workloads anywhere

SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is Microsoft’s reference platform for SQL Server on Linux. It provides a scalable foundation and a consistent application experience across bare-metal, virtual machine, container, and hybrid cloud environments.

Organizations currently running SQL Server on CentOS Linux can take advantage of a special offer on a 1-year subscription.

SAP Solutions in the Cloud

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions is certified and co-engineered with SAP to deliver speed and continuous availability in the cloud, paving the way for your organization’s required move to SAP/S4 HANA by 2027.

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