Red Hat expanded support of its bread-and-butter OpenShift platform to AWS allowing for a service that is jointly managed by both vendors.

"With Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS GovCloud, we can build and deploy applications while meeting government compliance requirements to protect sensitive workloads.

Red Hat® OpenShift® and Amazon Web Services (AWS) form an innovative solution for quickly creating, deploying, and managing modern, cloud-based applications.

OpenShift Container does this by providing developers and system administrators with a single platform to build, deploy, and manage applications consistently across hybrid-cloud infrastructures.

As enterprises increasingly explore deploying applications inside of containers, they have asked both companies to make it seamless to deploy and manage Red Hat OpenShift-based containers on AWS.