Amazon is to sellRed Hat Enterprise Linuxon demand to
firms.
Red Hat has announced the beta availability of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux via the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
web service.
This collaboration delivers all the capabilities of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, including the Red Hat Network management service,
technical support and more than 3,400 certified applications for
the OS.
The service allows customers to pay only for the infrastructure
software services and capacity that they actually use, said Red
Hat.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 enables customers to
increase or decrease capacity within minutes, removing the need to
over-buy software and hardware capacity as a set of resources to
handle periodic spikes in demand.
Red Hat will provide technical support and maintenance of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2. This is the first commercially
supported operating system available on Amazon EC2.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 is currently available as
a private beta, with public beta availability planned later this
year.
Base prices are £9.50 per user plus hourly compute usage
rates.