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Red Hat announced jointly-engineered, integrated and supported images for Red Hat Enterprise Linux across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

Available with the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, these cloud-optimized offerings are tailored to specific hyperscaler environments, providing users with pre-tuned, ready-to-run images to more seamlessly build, deploy and manage workloads in the cloud.

In collaboration with AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft, Red Hat offers a ready-to-use approach for Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments, facilitating smoother workload migrations, enhancing management and visibility for cloud deployments and delivering built-in security functions. The result is an out-of-the-box Red Hat Enterprise Linux experience that enables organizations to build faster with an optimized Linux platform in the public cloud of their choosing.

These cloud-centric offerings for Red Hat Enterprise Linux provide:

- Optimized performance in the cloud: Pre-configured, specifically-tuned profiles enable organizations to maintain consistency between reboots and modify settings for various subsystems without disrupting workflows.

- Contained drift and accelerated delivery: Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses container-native tooling to allow organizations to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a bootc container image in the cloud, helping to streamline cloud-native application development and IT operations into a single pipeline.

- Enhanced observability and reporting: Built-in telemetry options offer a comprehensive view of organizations' Red Hat Enterprise Linux estate alongside other cloud services for unified visibility within the cloud provider dashboard.

- Improved security from boot to runtime: Image attestation and top-down memory encryption through Secure Boot, Confidential Computing and Confidential Hypervisor provide a streamlined approach to cloud deployments with a stronger security footprint.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivers a consistent foundation upon which organizations can standardize and scale, reducing complexity and providing a unified experience across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. By tuning Red Hat Enterprise Linux to meet unique cloud specifications, organizations can speed up application development, simplify management and increase efficiency to scale applications more dynamically while maintaining reliability.

Cloud-optimized Red Hat Enterprise Linux offerings are now available on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.