Red Hat has formed a strategic alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to natively integrate access to AWS services into Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
Under this deal, Red Hat will make AWS services accessible directly within Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
The advantage of this platform is that 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.
The service will enable customers to become more agile as they’ll be able to use the same application development platform to build on premises or in the cloud.
Since 2008, Red Hat and AWS have collaborated to make it easy to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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.
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.
Red Hat and AWS are also 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.
“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.
The service is expected to be available 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.