Red Hat partners with Amazon for Enterprise Linux fabric in Elastic Compute Cloud

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nice, but expensive compared to base EC2

For companies that really want paid support from Red Hat, this is a nice option, and it's great to see Amazon sign up a major partner like this. However, you can already install RH Linux on an EC2 machine yourself, and pre-packaged EC2/RHL instances are already freely available, and they are considerably less expensive than this newly announced version.

Red Hat is charging more than twice what EC2 charges for an unsupported small instance, and charging a premium of around 33% and 18% for the large and extra large instances, respectively, plus tacking on a small surcharge for bandwidth.

So, again, for companies that really need full-on RHEL or think they'll require support directly from RH, it's a nice option, but for everyone else it's just an unnecessary additional expense.

Posted by: wpurvis@...   Posted on: 11/07/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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