Red Hat Enterprise Linux provided by Google cloud

Google and RedHat announced on Monday that Google's Amazon Killer Cloud Platform will provide Red Hat Enterprise Linux in real time and announced options for customers to transfer their existing licenses to Google cloud. RHEL has been in the & ldquo; preview & rdquo; Mode for users since ComputeEngine was officially released in December 2013. After the news is published, RHEL provides customers with two options: one is the on-demand consumption mode option and the other is the & ldquo; Red Hat cloud Access & rdquo; option.

Google and RedHat announced on Monday that Google's Amazon Killer Cloud Platform will provide Red Hat Enterprise Linux in real time and announced options for customers to transfer their existing licenses to Google cloud. RHEL has been in "preview" mode since its official release in December 2013.

After the news is published, RHEL provides customers with two options: one is the on-demand consumption mode option and the other is the Red Hat cloud access option. Under this option, enterprises can "migrate existing RHEL subscriptions to Google cloud platforms ".

RedHat said in a press release that in order to give users who like new tricks the opportunity to use this option, Google has joined the "Red Hat certification cloud supplier program, that is to say, the enterprise meets the "test and certification requirements, indicating that the Enterprise has the ability to provide a secure, scalable, supported, and consistent environment for enterprise cloud deployment".

Google explained that the RHEL software provided on Google's cloud platform is different from the typical Linux installation software. Google's cloud platform RHEL integrates Google's computing engine tools gcutil, gsutil, and gcimagebundle, SELinux is enabled by default, which allows inbound SSH access through the RHEL firewall, and has rsyslog and other fine-tuning enhancements.

Red Hat ECs instances are charged with additional fees. Google charges $0.06 per hour for RHEL software on eight or less virtual core servers, on 8 or more virtual core servers, an additional fee of $0.13 per hour is charged, plus the basic server fee.

In the past, The only thing users who liked new tricks could have been to transfer the Linux licenses for internal deployment to the cloud King Amazon AWS cloud. New suppliers are likely to be welcomed, and both Amazon and Google are busy fighting a price war to compete with each other.