Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Amazon, Red Hat Link On Linux In The Cloud

Seattle-based Amazon.com's web services arm, Amazon Web Services, has linked with Linux operating system firm Red Hat, in a deal which puts an official version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2. According to the two firms, Amazon Web Services will allow customers to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud via EC2, including providing the latest version of RHEL on Amazon EC2 at the same time as traditional releases of the software; providing standard RHEL 32-bit and 64-bit images on EC2; and linked security errata and enhancements upgrades to cloud version of the OS.