Red Hat is deepening its alliance with AWS to expand the presence of its virtualization and AI solutions on the AWS Marketplace. The companies have entered a strategic collaboration to enhance solution availability by incorporating Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux AI, OpenShift AI, and OpenShift Virtualization solutions. This partnership includes a co-developed strategy for market entry and an expansion of Red Hat’s Cloud Center of Excellence, aimed at demonstrating these solutions across cloud environments.
The partnership also introduces the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Service as a managed offering on the AWS Marketplace. This service aims to help organizations streamline and operationalize their hybrid cloud infrastructure, which can be complex and error-prone. Organizations are reportedly looking to prioritize AI while managing rising costs of virtual infrastructure, especially with significant virtual machine migrations.
Stefanie Chiras, SVP of partner ecosystem success at Red Hat, asserts that they are extending choice and flexibility not just in the location, but also in how applications run—from containers to virtual machines—all using the same platform. This strategy is designed to integrate AI into enterprise IT decisions and infrastructure, allowing for selection of appropriate hardware accelerators for unique hybrid cloud AI strategies and workloads.
IDC’s Gary Chen notes that CIOs and IT leaders must think beyond merely managing virtual machine clusters. They should optimize virtualized infrastructure to support AI roadmaps and prepare for next-generation IT operations. A strategic bridge between traditional virtual machines and cloud-native applications is essential for fostering innovation while ensuring operational continuity.
This collaboration also aims to increase the availability of AI-related solutions in the AWS Marketplace, including private offers and bringing your own subscription. The support extends to compute and software from NVIDIA, as well as AI accelerators and GPUs from AMD and Intel. The aim is to provide organizations with ready-made AI capabilities that can be scaled on AWS, either self-managed or through the service’s built-in capabilities.
Chris Grusz, managing director of technology partnerships at AWS, says the collaboration aligns with their shared vision of empowering strategic decision-making for future innovation. This powerful combination of Red Hat’s open-source solutions and AWS’s scale and support aims to streamline application modernization, facilitate cloud migrations, and accelerate AI adoption.
