While Amazon Web Services Inc. and Red Hat Inc. have been partnering since 2008, the pace of innovation has only increased over the past few years.

The largest addition to their partnership recently was the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (or ROSA), a managed version of OpenShift for container-based applications, which launched in April.

Manu Parbhakar (pictured, left), head of strategic partnerships for AWS, and Mike Evans (pictured, right), vice president for technical business development at Red Hat, spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during AWS re:Invent. They discussed the newest addition to the AWS and Red Hat partnership, ROSA, as well as RHEL updates. (* Disclosure below.)

[Editor’s note: The following content has been condensed for clarity.]

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) launched in April 2021. What’s the latest update?

Parbhakar: We are seeing solid adoption, both in terms of adoption by a customer, as well as the partners and how our partners are helping our customers in modernizing from VMs to containers. So it’s a huge priority for our container service. And over the next few years, we’ll continue to increase our investment on the product roadmap here.

Evans: We did it because customers were asking both of us, ‘Look, OpenShift is a platform. We’re going to be building and deploying serious applications at incredible scale on it, and it’s really got to have joint high-quality support, joint high-quality engineering. It’s got to be rock solid.’ And so we came to an agreement with AWS as the best way to do that was to build it in the console.

What do you think of ROSA versus Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)?

Parbhakar: ROSA is part of our container portfolio services, along with EKS, ECS and any other services that we just launched earlier this year. There are customers both that are running OpenShift on-premises that are standardized on ROSA, and then there are large sets of [Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)] customers that are running RHEL on [Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)] that want to use the ROSA service. So both AWS and Red Hat are now continuing to invest in accelerating the roadmap of the service on our platform.

We saw that RHEL now supports AWS Graviton instances. Tell us more about the Red Hat strategy with Graviton and ARM architecture specifically. What does it mean for customers?

Evans: It’s a pretty fascinating area for me. We’ve been working with AWS for over two years supporting Graviton, and I’m seeing more enthusiasm now in terms of developers, especially for very horizontal, large-scale applications. And we’re excited to be working with AWS directly on it, and I think it’s going to be a fascinating next two years on ARM, personally.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. (* Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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