A screen shot from Red Hat's website outlines its partnership with AWS
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Open source software developer Red Hat (www.redhat.com) announced on Thursday that it has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (www.aws.amazon.com). This partnership will enable customers to bring their own licenses to AWS and easily purchase supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux via AWS’ Elastic Compute Cloud.
According to the press release, this new offering will be available to customers worldwide in the coming weeks.
Recently, Amazon EC2 faced an outage that started April 21 and lasted several days. The outage took down web-based applications such as Foursquare, Quora, Reddit, Moby and Hootsuite. A few cloud hosts, like Connnectria, have since offered Amazon customers the opportunity to migrate their cloud service with special offers targeting the reliability of EC2. Amazon gave its customers affected by the outage a 10-day credit and a lengthy apology and explanation on its blog.
Amazon EC2 users can “procure and provision EC2 instances preconfigured with supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6″ and only pay for the hours they use, according to the statement.
“We are pleased to offer supported enterprise-class Red Hat Enterprise Linux on demand for our customers,” Terry Wise, director of business development for Amazon Web Services said in a statement. “Our customers have been vocal about their need to provision supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the same way that they provision AWS EC2 and only pay for what they use. This announcement is the result of an extensive collaboration between Red Hat and AWS to satisfy real customer needs.”
Red Hat says it will work with Amazon to enable on-demand instances and support options as well as migrate existing on-demand beta customers to Amazon supported on-demand instances.
“Giving developers broad access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux using Amazon EC2 is an important step in our evolution in the cloud,” Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general manager, cloud business at Red Hat said in a statement. “This is about giving customers and developers choice on how they deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux and work to build the industry’s next-generation applications.”
Also last week, Red Hat announced it has launched Red Hat CloudForms, a product for creating and managing infrastructure as a service private and hybrid clouds.
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