Overview
Amazon EC2 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a dependable platform to deploy a broad range of applications. By running RHEL on EC2, you can leverage the cost effectiveness, scalability and flexibility of Amazon EC2, the proven reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and AWS premium support with back-line support from Red Hat. Amazon EC2 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides seamless integration with existing Amazon EC2 features including Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon CloudWatch, Elastic-Load Balancing, and Elastic IPs. Includes access to Red Hat Insights, which provides proactive management and remediation guidance for RHEL 8 instances.
Highlights
- Content is available through the BaseOS and Application Stream (AppStream) repositories.
- Application Streams (AppStream) most developer tools will be here
- The YUM package manager is now based on the DNF technology and it provides support for modular content, increased performance, and a well-designed stable API for integration with tooling.
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Rhel 8.0_HVM_GA
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Support is available through forums, technical FAQs and the Service Help Dashboard. Paid support is available. All customers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on EC2 will receive access to repository updates from Red Hat. Moreover, AWS Premium support customers can contact AWS to get access to a support structure from both Amazon and Red Hat.
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Includes support and maintenance fees. Ready to use minimal RHEL 8 AMI. Login using 'ec2-user' and ssh public key authentication. Root partition and filesystem extends automatically during boot if instance volume is bigger than the default 10 GiB one. Cloud-init included. ENA enabled. RedHat 8 packages and updates available from AWS RHUI. RHEL8 security updates available at the release date are included.
Includes support and maintenance fees. Ready to use minimal RHEL 8.8 AMI. Login using 'ec2-user' and ssh public key authentication. Root partition and filesystem extends automatically during boot if instance volume is bigger than the default 10 GiB one. Cloud-init included. ENA enabled. RedHat 8 packages and updates available from AWS RHUI. RHEL8 security updates available at the release date are included.
Includes support and maintenance fees. Ready to use minimal RHEL 8 AMI within a default 16 GiB LVM managed instance volume. Login using 'ec2-user' and ssh public key authentication. Cloud-init included. ENA enabled. RedHat 8 packages and updates available from AWS RHUI. RHEL8 security updates available at the release date are included.
Customer reviews
Pharmaceuticals
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Reviewed on Sep 20, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
RHEL has strong security features, including Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and regular security updates. meating various compliance standards,
RHEL has strong security features, including Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and regular security updates. I
RHEL is optimized for performance across different workloads, from small-scale applications to large, distributed systems.
RHEL is well-suited for modern, cloud-native workloads and container-based applications.
RHEL has strong security features, including Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and regular security updates. I
RHEL is optimized for performance across different workloads, from small-scale applications to large, distributed systems.
RHEL is well-suited for modern, cloud-native workloads and container-based applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not dislike few bottlenecks are
SELinux can be complex to configure and troubleshoot for users who don’t need strict security enforcement.
Advanced security features like SELinux, OpenSCAP, and audit tools are available for enterprise-grade security compliance
SELinux can be complex to configure and troubleshoot for users who don’t need strict security enforcement.
Advanced security features like SELinux, OpenSCAP, and audit tools are available for enterprise-grade security compliance
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It serves various purposes, particularly in business and IT environments:
We use to host web, database, and application servers due to its reliability and ability to handle high-traffic environments and software development, especially for building, testing, and deploying applications in enterprise settings.
RHEL supports robust networking and storage management, often being used to manage enterprise storage solutions, firewalls, and networking services. RHEL meets compliance requirements
We use to host web, database, and application servers due to its reliability and ability to handle high-traffic environments and software development, especially for building, testing, and deploying applications in enterprise settings.
RHEL supports robust networking and storage management, often being used to manage enterprise storage solutions, firewalls, and networking services. RHEL meets compliance requirements
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Jean L.
visibilidad en sistemas operativos
Reviewed on Sep 12, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
en el caso de su sistema operativo, brinda herramientas ya nativas para darte visibilidad y recomendaciones como el insigths que ayuda mucho a temas de eficiencia y optimizacion en la administracion, asi como tambien sus capacidades de seguridad nativa y que se pueden complementar facilmente como plataformas de identidad.
tambien el modelo de subscripcion ayuda mucho de sus productos para poder ir probando y habilitando capacidades sin compromisos de largo plazos
tambien el modelo de subscripcion ayuda mucho de sus productos para poder ir probando y habilitando capacidades sin compromisos de largo plazos
What do you dislike about the product?
tal vez tener especialistas en temas de seguridad
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
nos ayuda bastante en la desacoplacion y adopcion de tecnologias agnosticas y nube
Francisco Jose Q.
Innovación para el despliegue agil de la transformación digital.
Reviewed on Sep 12, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Me gusta la innovación que trabaja RetHat de la mano d ella comunidad, lo que me permite utilizar el potencial y nuevas tecnologías para hacer despliegues más ágiles en nuestra organización.
What do you dislike about the product?
Probablemente para usar algunas tecnologías se requiere un repositorio de terceros.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Implementar soluciones de IA utilizando componentes más ligeros
Willman A.
Exelente
Reviewed on Sep 12, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Compromisos y confiabilidad con sus clientes
What do you dislike about the product?
Nada todos sus servicios y atención son exelente
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
En la gestion
Information Technology and Services
Robust and secured Operating System
Reviewed on Aug 24, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Its a Robust and most Secured operating system. YOu can tune your security according to your requirement and criticality. Even you can control network security with IPtables for Ingress and Egress traffic. You can integrate multiple tools chain for your daily needs. Customer support is fantastic and they do have great Knowledge articles with that you can easily configure your infrastructre
What do you dislike about the product?
I dont see any negative about this Operating system
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To run any application, container engine, virtual machines etc you need a steady and supporting operating system. The RHEL is the good fit for all these purposes. Its easy to codify your applications, run shell, python scripts on this OS. You can also install unlimited application binaries with YUM and CURL commands easily and manage its life cycle. YOu can manage the disks and its usage effectively