Red Hat Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Propel Virtualization and AI Innovation Across the Hybrid Cloud
Red Hat has announced a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with AWS to expand the availability of Red Hat open source solutions in AWS Marketplace. The partnership focuses on two main areas: virtualization and artificial intelligence. The collaboration will enhance support for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, enabling easier virtual machine migrations and application modernization. Additionally, Red Hat is expanding the availability of RHEL AI and Red Hat OpenShift AI in AWS Marketplace, supporting NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel accelerators for AI workloads.
Red Hat ha annunciato un accordo di collaborazione strategica (SCA) con AWS per ampliare la disponibilità delle soluzioni open source di Red Hat nel Marketplace di AWS. La partnership si concentra su due ambiti principali: virtualizzazione e intelligenza artificiale. Questa collaborazione migliorerà il supporto per il Red Hat OpenShift Service su AWS, rendendo più agevoli le migrazioni delle macchine virtuali e la modernizzazione delle applicazioni. Inoltre, Red Hat sta aumentando la disponibilità di RHEL AI e Red Hat OpenShift AI nel Marketplace di AWS, supportando gli acceleratori NVIDIA, AMD e Intel per i carichi di lavoro AI.
Red Hat ha anunciado un acuerdo de colaboración estratégica (SCA) con AWS para expandir la disponibilidad de las soluciones de código abierto de Red Hat en el AWS Marketplace. La asociación se centra en dos áreas principales: virtualización e inteligencia artificial. La colaboración mejorará el soporte para el Red Hat OpenShift Service en AWS, facilitando las migraciones de máquinas virtuales y la modernización de aplicaciones. Además, Red Hat está ampliando la disponibilidad de RHEL AI y Red Hat OpenShift AI en el AWS Marketplace, apoyando a los aceleradores de NVIDIA, AMD e Intel para las cargas de trabajo de IA.
레드햇은 AWS와의 전략적 협력 계약(SCA)을 발표하여 AWS 마켓플레이스에서 레드햇 오픈 소스 솔루션의 가용성을 확장할 것입니다. 파트너십은 두 가지 주요 분야에 초점을 맞추고 있습니다: 가상화와 인공지능. 이 협력은 Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS에 대한 지원을 강화하여 가상 머신 마이그레이션과 애플리케이션 현대화를 보다 쉽게 처리할 수 있도록 합니다. 또한 레드햇은 AWS 마켓플레이스에서 RHEL AI와 Red Hat OpenShift AI의 가용성을 확장하고 있으며, AI 작업 부하를 위해 NVIDIA, AMD 및 Intel 가속기를 지원합니다.
Red Hat a annoncé un accord de collaboration stratégique (SCA) avec AWS pour élargir la disponibilité des solutions open source de Red Hat sur le marché AWS. Le partenariat se concentre sur deux domaines principaux : virtualisation et intelligence artificielle. Cette collaboration améliorera le support pour le service Red Hat OpenShift sur AWS, facilitant ainsi les migrations de machines virtuelles et la modernisation des applications. De plus, Red Hat élargit la disponibilité de RHEL AI et Red Hat OpenShift AI sur le marché AWS, en soutenant les accélérateurs NVIDIA, AMD et Intel pour les charges de travail IA.
Red Hat hat eine strategische Zusammenarbeit (SCA) mit AWS angekündigt, um die Verfügbarkeit von Red Hat Open-Source-Lösungen im AWS Marketplace zu erweitern. Die Partnerschaft konzentriert sich auf zwei Hauptbereiche: Virtualisierung und künstliche Intelligenz. Die Zusammenarbeit wird die Unterstützung für den Red Hat OpenShift-Service auf AWS verbessern und die Migration von virtuellen Maschinen sowie die Modernisierung von Anwendungen erleichtern. Zudem erweitert Red Hat die Verfügbarkeit von RHEL AI und Red Hat OpenShift AI im AWS Marketplace und unterstützt NVIDIA-, AMD- und Intel-Beschleuniger für KI-Workloads.
- Strategic expansion of Red Hat solutions in AWS Marketplace
- Enhanced support for OpenShift Service on AWS for VM migrations
- Support for multiple AI accelerators (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel)
- Streamlined VM migration capabilities with OpenShift Virtualization
- Improved automation capabilities through Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
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Insights
This strategic collaboration between Red Hat and AWS marks a significant shift in enterprise cloud architecture, focusing on three key pillars: virtualization modernization, AI infrastructure expansion and marketplace accessibility. The partnership addresses critical market demands by enabling seamless VM migration alongside containerized workloads, while simultaneously building AI-ready infrastructure.
The integration of OpenShift Virtualization with AWS EC2 bare metal instances eliminates traditional hypervisor overhead, potentially reducing operational costs and improving performance. This technical advancement, combined with expanded AI capabilities through NVIDIA, AMD and Intel partnerships, positions Red Hat to capture a larger share of the enterprise AI infrastructure market.
For IBM (Red Hat's parent company), this represents a strategic move to strengthen its hybrid cloud position against competitors like VMware and Microsoft Azure, while monetizing the growing AI infrastructure market through Red Hat's enterprise-grade solutions.
The technical architecture of this collaboration introduces several market-differentiating features. Running OpenShift on EC2 bare metal instances with direct hardware access creates a performance advantage that could significantly reduce total cost of ownership for enterprises managing large VM fleets. The automation capabilities through Ansible Automation Platform streamline large-scale migrations, addressing a major pain point in enterprise digital transformation.
The BYOS model in AWS Marketplace and support for multiple AI accelerators (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel) demonstrates a platform-agnostic approach that could accelerate enterprise AI adoption while maintaining vendor flexibility. This positions Red Hat as a strategic enabler for enterprises building AI infrastructure, potentially driving significant revenue growth through increased platform adoption and usage.
Extended collaboration will significantly expand availability of Red Hat offerings in AWS Marketplace, driving cloud modernization through virtualization and AI
Powering virtualized workloads on modernized infrastructure
As many organizations today face uncertainty and rising costs in the management of their virtual infrastructure, they are navigating significant migrations for VMs across complex IT landscapes. At the same time, organizations are increasingly prioritizing AI to maintain differentiation and stay competitive. To help address these needs, Red Hat is providing a unified experience for customers to more easily migrate VMs and containerized 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 Virtualization in their AWS environments. This helps to streamline VM migrations and application modernization initiatives, and includes support for Windows virtualized workloads on OpenShift Virtualization 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 virtualized and containerized workloads.
Red Hat OpenShift, with the inclusion of OpenShift Virtualization and the migration toolkit for virtualization, allows for easier migration of VMs. The solution is designed with the cloud in mind for full automation from day one deployments and includes auto-healing and reconciliation, applied to both containers and VM workloads. By running OpenShift Virtualization on AWS EC2 bare metal instances, VM workloads can maintain similar levels of performance and redundancy while running on a more modern platform, allowing VMs and containers to interact directly with underlying hardware and infrastructure to minimize 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 virtualization 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 2 operations for the VM workloads after migration.
Unlocking the next generation of AI innovation
As part of this collaboration, Red Hat is enhancing the availability of solutions such as RHEL AI and Red Hat OpenShift AI in AWS Marketplace, including “bring your own subscription” (BYOS) 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 organizations 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 organization’s business needs.
Supporting Quotes
Stefanie Chiras, senior vice president, Partner Ecosystem Success, Red Hat
“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. Now, we’re extending this choice and flexibility to not just ‘where’ an organization 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.”
Chris Grusz, managing director, Technology Partnerships, AWS
"AWS and Red Hat share a common vision: empowering organizations to make strategic decisions today that will fuel innovation tomorrow. Our collaboration is focused on supporting customers throughout their cloud journeys, addressing both immediate infrastructure needs and future-facing technologies like AI. By combining Red Hat's open source solutions with AWS's unparalleled scale and support, we're creating a powerful combination that streamlines application modernization, facilitates seamless cloud migrations, and accelerates AI adoption. This synergy enables organizations to navigate the complexities of digital transformation more efficiently, ensuring they remain agile and competitive in an increasingly technology-driven landscape."
Kannan Rasappan, chief executive officer, Banfico
“Open banking requires a reliable and flexible platform to effectively build, deploy and manage critical applications in compliance with industry regulations. With Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, Banfico is able to significantly accelerate application delivery to build services at the pace of demand without compromising on security or performance. We look forward to our continued collaboration with Red Hat and AWS to further build upon our modern container strategy in a flexible public cloud, meeting the needs of the banking industry today and into the future.”
Gary Chen, research director, Software Defined Compute, IDC
“Enterprises must begin to think beyond just managing clusters of virtual machines. CIOs and IT leaders must consider how to optimize their virtualized infrastructure as an engine for modernization that supports their artificial intelligence roadmaps, modern applications, and prepare for the next generation of IT. Organizations are looking for a strategic bridge between traditional VMs and modern, cloud-native applications, paving the way for future innovation while maintaining operational continuity."
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