Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
Managed OpenShift on AWS
ROSA: a Red Hat OpenShift service jointly operated by Red Hat and AWS, running on AWS and billed together on your AWS bill; a good fit for teams already familiar with OpenShift.
- Cost$$$ High
- Difficulty●●●●●
- Costs money when idle?Yes
- Managed by AWS
Think of it asLike a famous franchise restaurant opening in a shopping mall: a familiar menu, on AWS's premises.
When to use it
✓ Use it when
Organizations standardized on OpenShift that want to move to AWS while keeping their tools.
✗ Avoid it when
Not using OpenShift and only need plain Kubernetes → EKS; simple containers → ECS.
Common uses
- Migrating on-prem OpenShift applications to the cloud
- Container platform for large enterprises
- Hybrid between on-prem OpenShift and AWS
What does it cost?
- Pricing model: Cluster fee and OpenShift service fee per worker node vCPU per hour, plus the underlying EC2 and AWS resources.
