Chapter 2. Program policies

Typically, Red Hat limits major revisions in the certification tests and criteria to major releases of RHEL. Red Hat may also release updates to the CCSP Instance Type for the following:

Only a single version of the policy is active at any one time. This current policy is effective upon its release and supersedes all previous versions.

Partner support of certified Instance Type is a fundamental part of Red Hat CCSP Instance type certification. All requests and information about the Instance Type to be certified, including details for the physical and virtual hardware contained within must be submitted by the original provider of the Instance Type to Red Hat.

You may choose to use your own internal or outside Partners for any portion of their testing however any such arrangement are the exclusive responsibility of the CCSP Partner. Red Hat will only interact with the CCSP Partner who is responsible for submitting the certification request and Red Hat will only post original certifications that will be easily identifiable.

New Instance Type certifications for a given, major release of RHEL can typically be submitted until the 2nd, subsequent major version of RHEL is released.

Certification requests that fall outside of the window must be raised with your EPM or SA. These requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.