Red Hat and AWS Extend Strategic Alliance to Package Access to AWS Services Within Red Hat OpenShift
Unique offering will allow customers to deploy AWS services from
within Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform both on-premises and in the
cloud
Alliance will also bring closer product alignment to enable new AWS
services to be available with Red Hat Enterprise Linux faster than ever
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Today, Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com
company and the world’s leading cloud computing provider (NASDAQ:AMZN),
announced an extended strategic alliance to natively integrate access to
AWS services into Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Through this
unique offering, Red Hat will make AWS services accessible directly
within Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, allowing customers to take
advantage of the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud
whether they’re using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on AWS or in
an on-premises environment. Customers will be able to seamlessly
configure and deploy a range of AWS services such as Amazon Aurora,
Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon
Route 53, and Elastic Load Balancing with just a few clicks from
directly within the Red Hat OpenShift console. For more information,
visit https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift.
Since 2008, Red Hat and AWS have collaborated to make it easy to run Red
Hat Enterprise Linux on AWS. Tens of thousands of customers across
industries run a wide range of mission-critical enterprise applications
– such as SAP applications, Oracle databases, analytics applications,
and many more – with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on AWS. As enterprises
increasingly explore deploying applications inside of containers, they
have asked both companies to make it seamless to deploy and manage Red
Hat OpenShift-based containers on AWS. With this alliance, AWS and Red
Hat will give customers the ability to easily build and extend
container-based enterprise applications with Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform using a range of AWS compute, database, analytics, machine
learning, networking, mobile, and various application services. This
will enable Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform customers to be more
agile as they'll be able to use the same application development
platform to build on premises or in the cloud. Red Hat and AWS will also
work together to provide a single support path backed by both companies,
so customers can run their applications in production with confidence.
In addition to providing an easier way for developers to deploy their
applications in containers, Red Hat and AWS are working together to more
rapidly enable new AWS services with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. By
aligning closely on development and release dates, the companies will
more quickly deliver AWS innovations to the tens of thousands of
customers who have migrated or built new workloads using Red Hat
Enterprise Linux on AWS.
AWS and Red Hat will continue to offer the complete suite of Red Hat
JBoss Middleware offerings as fully supported services on AWS, allowing
customers to run Red Hat JBoss Middleware as containerized application
components with the functionality, elasticity, and security customers
have come to expect from AWS. To further enhance Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform performance on AWS, the companies will collaborate on
development to further strengthen the integration between AWS and
Kubernetes, the container orchestration platform that powers Red Hat
OpenShift.
“Container adoption is taking off in the enterprise, and this alliance
is designed to accelerate that by giving customers access to AWS
services directly within Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform,” said Jim
Whitehurst, president and CEO, Red Hat. “By bringing together the
incredible pace of innovation and breadth of functionality that AWS
provides with the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise-grade
container platform, we’re enabling customers to bring the combined
advantages of these offerings across their hybrid environments with the
backing of our joint support.”
“Given that Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, our enterprise customers have been passionate about
seamlessly running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and various other Red Hat
solutions on AWS,” said Andy Jassy, CEO, AWS. “With AWS's pace of
innovation continuing to accelerate, we're excited about deepening our
alliance with Red Hat so that customers can enjoy AWS's unmatched
functionality as quickly as it comes out, whether they’re using Red Hat
Enterprise Linux or Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.”
Availability
Red Hat and AWS will demonstrate these integrations this week at Red Hat
Summit 2017 in Boston, Mass. with expected general availability in Fall
2017. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is available for AWS via Red Hat Cloud
Access or on-demand. Red Hat JBoss Middleware on OpenShift is available
today for AWS via Red Hat Cloud Access.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software
solutions, using a community-powered approach to provide reliable and
high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization
technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and
consulting services. As a connective hub in a global network of
enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create
relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and
prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
About Amazon Web Services
For 11 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 90
fully featured services for compute, storage, networking, database,
analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer,
mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI),
security, hybrid, and enterprise applications, from 42 Availability
Zones (AZs) across 16 geographic regions in the U.S., Australia, Brazil,
Canada, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the
UK. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the
world – including the fastest growing startups, largest enterprises, and
leading government agencies – to power their infrastructure, make them
more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than
competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational
excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping,
personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle
Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa
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