Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( RHEL ) for Microsoft Azure

• VM image for EMEA customers. (Click here for North America, APAC, and LATAM)
• Red Hat Hybrid Committed Spend eligible
• Flexible pricing options available via Private Offers. Contact your Red Hat account team or certified Red Hat partner for more information.

Need to move fast in the cloud? Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for Azure is your launchpad for building and scaling applications with speed and confidence. Pre-tuned for Azure and deeply integrated with services like Azure Monitor and the Azure CLI, it delivers a ready-to-use experience that helps you hit the ground running without extra setup or configuration.

RHEL for Azure is designed specifically for Azure environments and includes built-in features and integrations that streamline performance, management, and security:

• Pre-configured Azure-specific performance profiles for faster, consistent deployments
• RHEL for Azure provides the capability to collect, analyze, and visualize performance and diagnostic data
• Azure CLI (azure-cli) provides command line interface management of RHEL for Azure images and resources
• Red Hat Lightspeed for proactive monitoring and intelligent issue resolution across hybrid environments
• Image mode streamlines cloud operations with container-native tools, enabling bootable RHEL container images and immutable system images for reduced attack surface
• Optional automated updates and rollbacks for faster operations with reduced risk

Procurement

• Hourly PAYG pricing based on instance size and vCPU quantity. Discounted VM software reservation purchase options are also available.
• Flexible pricing options are available for certain scenarios. Please contact your Red Hat account team or partner for more details.

Developers

• Developer-friendly tools and features accelerate application development and deliver efficient and convenient access to reliable OS images in Azure. Toolchains, libraries, container tools, and runtimes are integrated into your Azure environment.

• Streamlined management and automation with built-in workflow automation tools and integration with Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform. System roles, a collection of supported workflows, enable you to rapidly and consistently configure multiple instances using the same automation playbooks.


• Support
  Direct support from Red Hat’s award-winning support team with 24x7 access to support engineers for high-severity issues and access to our Knowledgebase.

Important! You will need to activate your support subscription. We've created a no cost Azure SaaS offering to help automate the activation process. The Red Hat Subscription Support Registration listing has more details.

Sys Admins and Corporate IT

• Built-in security features and profiles help reduce risk and maintain compliance. Security standards certifications and a trusted software supply chain allow you to run applications on RHEL with confidence.

• Integrated analytics and remediation via Red Hat Lightspeed (included) to proactively identify and provide guidance for fixing issues. It delivers continuous vulnerability alerts and targeted assistance to help maximize uptime and avoid security issues, noncompliant settings, unpatched systems, and configuration drift. Red Hat Lightspeed is FedRAMP approved.

• Red Hat Satellite (included) automates common tasks and lets you provision, maintain, and upgrade your entire infrastructure—including all RHEL systems—in physical, virtualized, and cloud environments from a single console.

• Extended Update Support (EUS) is included and provides Critical and Important security updates and urgent-priority bug fixes for a predefined set of minor releases of RHEL. EUS enables you to remain on the same minor release for 24 months, allowing for stable production environments.

• Long-term life cycle support and flexibility to fulfill business requirements. You can choose from multiple supported versions, upgrade on your schedule, and adopt new features as needed.