“There’s a lot of innovation on AWS. This makes OpenShift more attractive to more developers, but it’s also a storefront for Amazon features and products,”Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst told Fortune during an interview at the Red Hat Summit tech conference in Boston. Whitehurst said he started discussing this plan with AWS chief executive Andy Jassy in January.
Red Hat is not alone in trying to woo corporate users with better ties to AWS. Last fall, VMware (VMW, -0.22%) and Amazon (AMZN, -0.69%) said they were working on a way to deploy VMware workloads on AWS, for example.
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