Red Hat and Amazon rent Linux

    Red Hat made its Enterprise Linux OS available on demand by releasing it for the Amazon EC2 online service , which allows you to rent servers with the right software and resources for the required time.

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 is currently in beta, but should be publicly available by the end of this year. The service will cost $ 19 per month for each user, or $ 0.21, $ 0.53 or $ 0.94 per hour for each computer, depending on traffic, channel width and file storage size.

    Red Hat also released a new third-party OS and introduced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 with improved virtualization tools. The company says that Enterprise Linux 5.1 supports virtual guest systems Windows XP, Server 2000, Server 2003 and Windows 2008 beta.

    Ultimately, Red Hat wants to create an open infrastructure for delivering applications on various types of network infrastructures: virtual servers, specialized tools or services, such as Amazon EC2.

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