Tag Archives: Red Hat Enterprise

Launch of RHEL Software Reservations

Microsoft announce that Software Reservations for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are generally available. There are now 32 members of the Reservations family where you can receive a discount on an Azure service by making a duration-based commitment. For an RHEL Software Reservation you need to commit for a year, and you can expect discounts of up to 24% when you run RHEL software on Azure virtual machines. As we expect with Reservations, this Software Reservation is applied automatically to any deployed RHEL VMs that match the Reservation, and there’s also instance size flexibility which means that the discount is applied even when you deploy a VM with a different virtual core count from the Reservation.

Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4hNBq1W, and some useful Learn documentation here: https://bit.ly/3JKKqrT.

Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux VMs

The Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux allows you to bring your existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) subscriptions to Azure, so that you only pay for the infrastructure costs of the VM on Azure.

If you don’t know much about how this benefit gets activated for Linux VMs then we’d recommend this splendid interactive demo from Microsoft: https://bit.ly/3JBNUwU.

Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux generally available

Microsoft announce that the Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux is now generally available after a preview phase. This means that customers can bring their own Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscriptions to a virtual machine in Azure and just pay for the infrastructure charges. Customers can apply this Azure Hybrid Benefit to either existing or new virtual machines.

Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3pRFwe0, and details on exactly how the Azure Hybrid Benefit applies to Linux virtual machines here: https://bit.ly/2Tqh4S5.