Streamline automation procurement with Red Hat and AWS Marketplace

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations are under constant pressure to adopt new technologies quickly, manage costs effectively, and maintain robust security and compliance standards. They’re also under tremendous pressure to build, manage, and scale IT automation across the organization.

The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, available as both self-managed and fully managed solutions, is available through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, enabling streamlined access to the solution, quick deployment and integration within existing AWS environments, flexible and scalable pricing options, and unified governance and compliance capabilities.

The Benefits of Procuring Through AWS Marketplace  

Organizations are bogged down by lengthy vendor negotiations in traditional procurement methods, complex billing, and decentralized purchasing processes. AWS Marketplace, however, enables an environment in which organizations of all sizes can find, try, buy, deploy, and manage solutions from AWS Partners within the AWS ecosystem.

Procuring through AWS Marketplace has a number of benefits. For example, companies can optimize time-to-value with standardized contracts and flexible payment options, allowing them to test software, pay as they go, negotiate custom terms, and save with volume pricing. “Dealing with one vendor for your procurement versus dealing with potentially 5,000 is a major benefit,” says John Walter, senior partner solutions architect at AWS.

Organizations procuring through AWS Marketplace reduce risk with centralized governance and control. Users can launch third-party solutions that meet their security and compliance standards. Businesses can also optimize costs by consolidating third-party spending with AWS billing. This enables companies to simplify invoicing, track spending, and manage budgets. “You’re able to negotiate pricing with these partners, and having a single bill is a major benefit to customers,” Walter says.

The Advantage of Red Hat and AWS Marketplace

The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, available from the AWS Marketplace, offers customers all the benefits of Ansible automation, deployed on their AWS cloud. This solution, available as a self-managed or fully managed solution, provides organizations the tools they need to deploy enterprise wide automation.

The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform integrates with native AWS services and the full Ansible collection for AWS, making it easier and faster to provision. Users get the complete Ansible Automation platform, including the full Ansible collection for AWS, as well as integration services such as EC2, CloudFormation, VPC, ALB, AMI, Security Groups, key pairs, EFS, EBS, S3, RDS, Lambda, AWS Secret, and more. Customers also have unlimited access to experienced technical support engineers.

Though customers of both the self-managed and fully managed solution can expect these same features, there are key differences:

• The Ansible Automation Platform Service on AWS is a managed service that Red Hat deploys and fully manages. Upgrades, patches, and ongoing maintenance of the platform are performed by Red Hat, enabling customers to focus on automation.

• The Ansible Automation Platform is a self-managed version of the Ansible Automation Platform. Customers are responsible for deploying the platform via a simple, streamlined processes. Customers are also responsible for performing ongoing maintenance and upgrades to the platform.

Both the fully managed and self-managed offerings integrate seamlessly with both AWS infrastructure and services, as well as hybrid cloud resources, Walter says.

“The key benefit to deploying either a self-managed or fully managed version of Ansible is you’ll be able to get up and running faster,” Walter says. “You don’t need to spend time on the deployment, and you’ll be able to take advantage of working within an ecosystem you’re comfortable and familiar with.”

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