Combines powerful IT automation with the convenience of a managed offering in AWS Marketplace, enabling IT teams to better focus on mission-critical initiatives

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today 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 operationalizing 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 standardization. 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-optimized 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 customization 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 organizations 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 datacenter to multiple public clouds to the edge, along with AI applications at scale. With a rapidly changing modern IT landscape, organizations 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 organizations 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.

Supporting Quotes

Sathish Balakrishnan, vice president and general manager, Ansible, Red Hat

“Businesses can only achieve their goals if automation is viewed as essential to the enterprise IT strategy. But to perform automation as a true, mission-critical IT strategy, there needs to be a capable and broadly available platform that unifies and propels continuous innovation. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as a managed offering in AWS Marketplace helps us to further equip our customers with the right technology at the right time, enabling them to exceed their goals and expand what’s possible with mission-critical automation.”

David Tapper, program vice president, Outsourcing and Managed Cloud Services, IDC

“Driving value by providing managed services is not just about focusing on cloud capabilities (e.g., managed cloud services). It is also about supporting the shift in provisioning services for enterprises from a "parts-centric approach" that focuses on technologies and individual capabilities to a "system-centric approach" that requires holistic management and governance in orchestrating all IT and cloud services to help enterprises achieve critical business and IT objectives.”¹

Scott Kinane, vice president, Worldwide Kyndryl Automation, Kyndryl

“Our customers are adopting automation as a strategic imperative, particularly to meet the demands of today’s workloads and the evolution of generative AI. With Ansible Automation Platform Service on AWS, we can quickly deliver robust automation solutions to our mutual customers and further accelerate the adoption, development and deployment of mission-critical automation across all enterprise segments.”

Mat Jovanovic, corporate cloud strategy director, Mapfre

“We use Ansible Automation Platform and native services mostly in AWS, like lambda and step functions. So combining the two gives us the flexibility to cover a huge spectrum of automation organization processes."

¹IDC Market Forecast Figure, Worldwide Managed Cloud Services Forecast, 2024–2028: An Extraction View of Technology Outsourcing Services Markets, Doc #US51494624, July 2024

Additional Resources

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