Red Hat And AWS Deliver Joint OpenShift Service
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Source:-crn.com
Amazon Red Hat OpenShift, merging the industry’s largest public cloud with its leading Kubernetes platform for hybrid deployments, comes integrated with native AWS services, and can be provisioned and billed through the AWS console.
Red Hat and Amazon Web Services have partnered to offer a jointly managed and supported version of Red Hat OpenShift on the industryâs largest public cloud.
Amazon Red Hat OpenShift, introduced Thursday, combines AWS-native capabilities with Red Hatâs leading Kubernetes platformâthe central pillar of Red Hatâs, and parent IBMâs, strategy to achieve hybrid cloud supremacy with more than 2,000 customers.
The joint offering natively integrates with more than 170 AWS services, and is the first that allows enterprises to provision, license and bill for OpenShift through AWS, Sathish Balakrishnan, Red Hatâs vice president for Hosted Platforms, told CRN.
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âBecause itâs such a broad market, we want to give OpenShift in multiple forms,â Balakrishnan said. Offering a diversity of consumption models is important in realizing the promise of Kubernetes to extend across all types of infrastructure and environments.
Many customers tell Red Hat theyâve standardized on OpenShift as their hybrid platform, and now want to run it in multiple clouds. But they want Red Hat to make it easier to support deployments across those providers, he said.
The integrated AWS offering follows a similar partnership with Microsoft which yielded the introduction one year ago of Azure Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat also offers Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, a fully managed offering n on its parent companyâs infrastructure.
Previously, enterprises that wanted to run OpenShift on AWS could opt for Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated, a fully managed service from Red Hat available on AWS, as well as Google Cloud Platform. Or they could opt for OpenShift Container Platform, a version they could either self-install and self-manage, or implement through a systems integrator.
Amazon Red Hat OpenShift adds another option to that mixâone that doesnât involve partners in the deployment phase of an engagement, but creates a different opportunity for the channel, Balakrishnan said.
âPartners have multiple roles to play in adoption of OpenShift,â Balakrishnan said.
While the two technology giants will handle standing up and managing the platform, he said, enterprises will turn to the channel to migrate workloads and refactor applications using containers and cloud-native architectures.
Balakrishnan, who has a consulting background with Accenture and Deloitte, said itâs those layers above infrastructure where partners see their healthiest profits.
And the joint offering will give partners without Kubernetes specialists and the resources to create container clusters a chance to play in that market by allowing them to focus exclusively on higher-order business priorities and applications, he said.
Amazon Red Hat OpenShift is a âcomplementary offering to the services GSIs provide in the world of Kubernetes and containers, where skills are scarce,â Balakrishnan told CRN.
With the new offering, enterprises for the first time will be able to provision OpenShift through the AWS console, apply existing AWS Enterprise Agreements, and be billed through a single AWS invoice. AWS and Red Hat will both provide technical support.
The offering can directly access AWS compute, storage, networking, database, analytics and machine- learning services
But the key value proposition for OpenShiftâapplication portability and compatibilityâremains the same, making it an easy switch from other OpenShift deployments on AWS or its rival clouds.
The partnership with Amazon demonstrates IBM is staying true to the pledge it made when it purchased Red Hat for $34 billion of maintaining the open-source software leaderâs neutrality.
âItâs a great validation of IBM keeping its word on independence,â Balakrishnan said.