Red Hat Inc. is adding native integration with many of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud services to its OpenShift Container Platform.

The OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat’s on-premises private platform-as-a-service product, built around a core of application containers powered by Docker, with orchestration and management provided by Kubernetes, on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The company said in its announcement Thursday that it’s difficult to provide consistency across public cloud platforms for modern applications, because these are dependent on a combination of components and microservices. It’s hoping to address this challenge by providing a way for users to connect apps running on OpenShift to a host of AWS services, regardless of where the app is running.

To that end, Red Hat said the OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 update enables direct access to a range of AWS services, which can be configured and launched directly from the platform. AWS services made available via OpenShift include Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon Relational Database Services, Amazon Redshift and others.

“Modern, cloud-native applications are not monolithic stacks with clear-cut needs and resources,” said Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager of OpenShift at Red Hat. “To more effectively embrace modern applications, IT organizations need to re-imagine how their developers find, provision and consume critical services and resources across a hybrid architecture.”

Badani said that the new OpenShift release helps to tackle the issue by providing “hybrid access” to AWS services via its service catalog. This enabled developers to “more easily find and bind necessary services to their business-critical applications,” he added.

The update means Red Hat has made good on its promise last May to tighten integration between AWS and Kubernetes. It follows the release of OpenShift 3.6 in August, which introduced an Ansible Service Broker to automate workflows inside the platform.

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