Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Service on AWS as a managed offering in AWS Marketplace. Ansible Automation Platform Service on AWS makes it easier for customers to manage their hybrid cloud infrastructure by streamlining and operationalising otherwise complex and potentially error-prone activities, extending customer choice and flexibility in how and where they deploy Red Hat’s portfolio of open technologies both on-premises and on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
As complexity continues to rise in hybrid cloud and now artificial intelligence (AI) environments, enterprises need a management strategy that they can execute at the required scale, speed and standardisation. As a managed offering available in AWS Marketplace, Ansible Automation Platform helps IT teams to start automating on day 1. Red Hat and AWS customers with varying automation experience can now access a faster and simpler way to deploy automation at scale through a cloud-optimised solution, without having to learn a new tool or integrate additional technologies into their operations. Ansible Automation Platform Service on AWS works with AWS billing for full visibility into costs in one place, while also counting toward committed spend agreements with AWS.
Red Hat offers both managed and self-managed options for Ansible Automation Platform on AWS to meet the varying needs of customers with cloud-native or cloud-first IT strategies:
- – The self-managed offering brings greater customisation and configuration, so regulated industries, or their managed services partners, can manage their own tooling for cloud deployments that require enhanced security.
- – Adding a Red Hat-managed-and-monitored solution brings the value of premium support from Red Hat, enabling organisations to focus on innovation through automation instead of managing the platform, from scaling, upgrades and more.
The Red Hat-managed offering also enables Red Hat services partners to accelerate their customers’ automation journey through the rapid deployment and development of Ansible Playbooks.
Ansible Automation Platform is the mission-critical automation solution for operating complex hybrid clouds, from the datacentre to multiple public clouds to the edge, along with AI applications at scale. With a rapidly changing modern IT landscape, organisations can lean on the automation expertise encapsulated in Ansible Automation Platform to help maintain the resilience and efficiency needed to innovate with new technologies, including AI, while keeping day-to-day operations moving smoothly. The addition of managed offerings in AWS Marketplace furthers Red Hat’s goal to extend a common IT automation solution wherever organisations operate by bringing multiple tailored offerings to major cloud providers. More importantly, these choices enable customers to focus on mission-critical automation initiatives, and not on deploying and managing the platform.