Red Hat extends partnership with AWS to drive virtualization and AI innovation in hybrid cloud

Red Hat and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) to scale the viability of open source solutions in the AWS Marketplace, extending the long-standing relationship in this extension of the partnership, the leading open source company seeks to provide new technologies to a new roster of customers and partners, including the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), Red Hat OpenShift AI and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, to address critical business needs for application modernization, virtual machine migration (VM), and artificial intelligence (AI) deployments. 

For Stefanie Chiras, senior vice president for Partner Ecosystem Success, the new phase of the partnership with AWS symbolizes more benefits for customers. “.Agora, we are extending this choice and flexibility not only to ¬where an organization runs its applications, but also ¬how to run applications, from containers to virtual machines, all using the same platform.And as AI becomes the next critical business IT decision, we are making optionality a reality in accelerated computing infrastructure, allowing customers to select hardware accelerators that make the most sense for their strategies and unique hybrid AI workloads.

Boosting virtualized workloads on modernized infrastructure

As many organizations face increasing uncertainties and costs to manage their virtual infrastructure, they are navigating significant migrations to VMs in complex IT scenarios. To help address these needs, Red Hat is providing a unified experience for customers to more easily migrate VMs and containerized workloads with more consistency and scalability as these organizations begin to deploy modern platforms and infrastructure on their AI journey.

This effort includes boosting support for the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWSa fully managed, turnkey application platform to help customers using OpenShift Virtualization without challenges in your AWS environments. This helps streamline VM migrations and application modernization initiatives, and includes support for virtualized Windows workloads in OpenShift Virtualization via Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Red Hat OpenShift it will operate as a self-managed AWS EC2 offering on bare-metal instances (classic servers) to give customers greater flexibility in deploying virtualized and containerized workloads. 

With the addition of OpenShift Virtualization and the migration toolkit for virtualizationred Hat OpenShift makes it easy to migrate VMs. The solution is designed with the cloud in mind for complete automation for day one deployments and includes self-healing and reconciliation applied to both containers and VM workloads. Running OpenShift Virtualization on AWS EC2 on baremetal instances, VM workloads can maintain similar levels of performance and redundancy while operating on a more modern platform, allowing VMs and containers to interact directly with underlying hardware and infrastructure to minimize administrative overhead and eliminate the need for a traditional hypervisor layer.

Unlocking the next era 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 the AWS Marketplace, including “bring your own subscription” (“your own” subscription) and private offerings supporting NVIDIA accelerated computing and software, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA NIM software platform validation, a suite of easy-to-use microservices designed for secure and reliable deployment of high-performance AI models. Red HatSh has offerings for embedded AI accelerators and additional GPUs from AI vendors that are easily leveraged as well as AI-powered AI-based capabilities that can be leveraged through self-powered, so that can be delivered through AI-aware organizations. 

The collaboration will be guided by a product launch roadmap developed by Red Hat and AWS to bring these solutions to customers, as well as additional activities to better demonstrate how these offerings can be used in cloud environments to meet an organization's business needs.