Introduction:

Cloud computing with Red Hat enterprise software is a web-scale virtual computing environment powered by Amazon Web Services. It provides everything needed to develop and host applications: compute capacity, bandwidth, storage, and the leading open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Cloud computing changes the economics of IT by enabling you to pay only for the capacity that you actually use. Compute capacity can be scaled up or down on demand to accommodate changing workloads and business requirements. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform are both available for cloud computing, making it easier to develop, deploy, and manage your new and existing applications in a virtual computing environment.

Red Hat enterprise software in the Cloud brings:

• Freedom
  • From IT Infrastructure constraints, from long-term contracts, from capital expenses, from management nightmares.
• Power
  • Scalable resources across leading hardware architectures, bandwidth and storage to meet the needs of your job or service.
• Control
  • Your data, your applications, your virtual server, when you need it - and only when you need it.
• Choice
  • Over 3000 certified applications.

All using the same certified and managed Red Hat solutions that empower enterprises around the world with the value of open source.

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From Leading Platform Providers:

Teamed with Amazon, Red Hat offers the standards of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). By offering a dynamically allocated server resource pool with the leading supported Open Source operating system, Amazon and Red Hat provide a complete hosting platform, immediately accessible and secure.

More information on Amazon Web Services and EC2