The big news out of this week’s Red Hat Summit is Amazon.com Inc,’s agreement to make its thousands of services available in Red Hat Inc.’s container application platform OpenShift.

With the ink on the contract barely dry, Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, left) and Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) (pictured, right), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, discussed what the AWS-Red Hat deal could really mean for users. (*Disclosure below.)

“We’re still teasing out exactly what it is, because partially, really, this is still being built out. It’s not going to be shipping until later this year,” Miniman explained.

Before anyone gets excited that Amazon’s now part and parcel of OpenShift, one point must be clarified, according to Miniman. “It’s not like I can take everything that AWS does and shove it in my data center — it’s just not feasible,” he said.

It will, however, be possible to run authentic AWS applications in OpenShift without subscribing to AWS cloud, he added. “And, really, there’s the hooks and the APIs to make sure that I can leverage services that are using AWS,” Miniman stated.

By the time theCUBE covers the AWS re:Invent 2017 conference in November, many more details of the deal with Red Hat will be available, Knight and Miniman predicted. “It’s something we expect to be talking about throughout the rest of the year,” Miniman said.

Open source overseas

Beyond its AWS announcement, Red Hat demonstrated its reach to the broader open-source community in America, as well as internationally.

An attendee from the Open Source Hardware Association summed up the community’s ethos well, according to Knight. “She said, ‘One of our questions is: Are you emotionally ready to be part of this community?'” Knight recalled. For a company to make its IP, its lifeblood, available for others to copy requires a leap of faith  — faith that open source will increase its value for all involved, she explained.

One open-source community that will receive a close look next week is the OpenStack cloud operating system (which Red Hat participates in through its Red Hat OpenStack Platform) at the OpenStack Summit in Boston.

“One of the reasons why people are like, ‘Oh, the project’s floundering and it’s not doing great’ is because of the two big use cases — one is the telecommunication space, which is a small segment of the global population, and two, it’s gaining a lot of traction in Europe and in Asia,” said Miniman.

For whatever reason, the global tech press gives short shrift to adoption outside the U.S., he said. “Oh wait, if it’s 75 percent adoption in North America, that’s what we expect; if it’s 75 percent adoption overseas, it’s not happening,” Miniman joked.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of Red Hat Summit 2017. (* Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsors some Red Hat Summit segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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