Red Hat has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to scale the availability of Red Hat open-source solutions in AWS Marketplace. Red Hat intends to make available its hybrid cloud platforms, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), Red Hat OpenShift AI and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, on AWS infrastructure to address critical business needs for application modernisation, virtual machine migration and artificial intelligence deployments.
Red Hat says it will provide a unified experience for customers to more easily migrate virtual machines and containerised workloads side-by-side to the cloud with greater consistency and scalability, while also providing the modern platforms and infrastructure to support next-generation AI workloads.
This effort includes bolstering support for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, a fully managed turnkey application platform, to help customers more seamlessly use OpenShift Virtualisation in their AWS environments. This helps to streamline VM migrations and application modernisation initiatives and includes support for Windows virtualised workloads on OpenShift Virtualisation via Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS. In addition, Red Hat OpenShift will run as a self-managed offering on AWS EC2 bare metal instances to offer customers greater flexibility in deploying virtualised and containerised workloads.
By including OpenShift Virtualisation and the migration toolkit for virtualisation, Red Hat OpenShift allows for easier migration of virtual machines. The solution is designed with the cloud in mind for full automation from day one deployment and includes auto-healing and reconciliation, applied to both containers and virtual machine workloads. By running OpenShift Virtualisation on AWS EC2 bare metal, virtual machine workloads can maintain similar levels of performance and redundancy while running on a more modern platform, allowing virtual machines and containers to interact directly with underlying hardware and infrastructure to minimise administrative overhead and eliminating the need for a traditional hypervisor layer.
Lastly, when migrating at scale, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can work with the migration toolkit for virtualisation to reduce the time it takes for large migrations. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Service on AWS, available in AWS Marketplace, makes automation quicker and easier, allows migration at scale and automates day-to-day operations for the virtual machine workloads after migration.
As part of this collaboration, Red Hat is improving the availability of solutions such as RHEL AI and Red Hat OpenShift AI in AWS Marketplace, including bring your own subscription and private offers, supporting NVIDIA accelerated computing and software, including the validation of NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform and NVIDIA NIM, a set of easy-to-use microservices designed for secure, reliable deployment of high-performance AI model inferencing. Red Hat has offerings for additional AI accelerators and GPUs from leading chip providers like AMD and Intel. This will help provide organisations with ready-made AI capabilities that can then more easily be scaled using Red Hat OpenShift AI on AWS, either self-managed or through the services’ built-in capabilities.
This collaboration will be driven by a go-to-market roadmap developed by Red Hat and AWS to bring these solutions to customers as well as additional activities to further demonstrate how these offerings can be used across cloud environments to meet an organisation’s business needs.
“The collaboration between Red Hat and AWS continues to be built on enabling customer choice, starting with where they can run their workloads across the hybrid cloud,” said Red Hat’s Stefanie Chiras. “Now, we’re extending this choice and flexibility to not just where an organisation runs their applications, but also how, from containers to virtual machines, all using the same platform. And, as AI becomes the next critical enterprise IT decision, we’re making optionality a reality in accelerated compute infrastructure, enabling customers to select the hardware accelerators that make the most sense for their unique hybrid cloud AI strategies and workloads.”
“Our collaboration is focused on supporting customers throughout their cloud journeys, addressing both immediate infrastructure needs and future-facing technologies like AI,” said AWS’s Chris Grusz. “By combining Red Hat’s open-source solutions with AWS’s unparalleled scale and support, we’re creating a powerful combination that streamlines application modernisation, facilitates seamless cloud migrations, and accelerates AI adoption. This synergy enables organisations to navigate the complexities of digital transformation more efficiently, ensuring they remain agile and competitive in an increasingly technology-driven landscape.”
