3장. Deploying a RHEL image as an EC2 instance on AWS

Deploy a Red Hat gold image

Use your existing Red Hat subscriptions

The subscriptions include the Red Hat product cost and support for Cloud Access images, while you pay the CCSP for all other instance costs.

Select a Red Hat gold image on the CCSP according to requirement.

Deploy a custom image that you move to the CCSP

Use your existing Red Hat subscriptions

The subscriptions includes the Red Hat product cost and support for custom RHEL image, while you pay the CCSP for all other instance costs.

Upload your custom image and attach your subscriptions

Deploy an existing RHEL based custom machine image

The custom machine images include a RHEL image

You pay the CCSP on an hourly basis based on a pay-as-you-go model. For this model, on-demand images are available on the CCSP marketplace. The CCSP provides support for these images, while Red Hat handles updates. The CCSP provides updates through the Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI).

Select a RHEL image when you launch an instance on the CCSP cloud management console, or choose an image from the CCSP marketplace.