Highlights –

  • The service offers a top-tier Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations environment for powering intensive workloads like animation rendering or data visualization without the associated hardware costs or administrative requirements.
  • Red Hat’s dedication to providing technologies that more reliably span hybrid cloud environments—not just as platforms but also as services—is strengthened by Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations on AWS.

The world’s largest provider of open-source solutions, Red Hat, Inc., declared the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations on AWS, a cloud-based virtual workstation based on the hardened innovation foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Workstation-as-a-service provides the strength and adaptability of the world’s top enterprise Linux platform to tasks requiring a lot of computing power across a hybrid cloud, reducing hardware costs and administrative burdens.

The service offers a top-tier Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstation environment for powering intensive workloads like animation rendering or data visualization without the associated hardware costs or administrative requirements. It is accessible via a NICE DCV client provided by Amazon or standard web browsers.

Nearly every industry felt the effects of the global pandemic, which sparked an ongoing surge in remote work. This includes businesses built around a workstation-centric culture, such as animation studios, visual effects studios, industrial design firms, research institutions, and others, who are currently seeking ways to provide cutting-edge hardware capabilities to a distributed workforce. Failure to do so may cause projects to drag out, a talent drain, or even lost business.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations on AWS offers a workstation-as-a-service solution developed to address these issues. It is delivered using NICE DCV, a high-performance remote display protocol, on AWS. It supports a range of GPU-accelerated hardware instances available on AWS while still delivering a fully-featured Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations environment, offering a potent collection of capabilities, including:

  • Optimization for high-performance workloads with a focus on graphically heavy tasks, limiting the need to tune performance or configure the operating system to fulfill user needs.
  • Vast software support with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations is preserving a similar certified ecosystem like the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with thousands of Independent Software Vendor (ISV) programs available.
  • Broad hardware support that works with a wide range of Amazon EC2 instances, including the G-family accelerated instance types best suited for remote workstations.
  • Provides access everywhere by offering a web client and Windows, Mac, and Linux thin clients support.
  • A well-known stack for developing software that supports the most recent stable versions of tools, databases, and languages.

Consistency is key for the hybrid cloud, from platform to cloud service

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations on AWS is in line with Red Hat’s dedication to providing technologies that more reliably bridge hybrid cloud environments—not just as platforms but also as services. The new service enables enterprises to maintain workflows and operational consistency while processing even with a remote workforce and limited hardware alternatives since it supports the same skills, tools, and workloads that currently run-on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.