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    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS)

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    Red Hat Enterprise Linux combines production stability with developer agility.

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    • SaaS offering for North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. (Click here  for EMEA)
    • Direct support from Red Hat
    • AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) eligible
    • Red Hat Hybrid Committed Spend eligible
    • Flexible pricing options available via Private Offers. Contact Red Hat for more information.

    The RHEL 7 ELS offering provides access to security patches and updates after June 30, 2024. This offering is intended for customers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 VMs in AWS and want to continue to receive security patches and updates for those VMs beyond the RHEL 7 end of maintenance date (June 30, 2024). The cost of this offering is based on the number of virtual CPUs (vCPUs) used per hour. For more information: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Maintenance Policy .

    Compared to previous major releases, Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) for RHEL 7 expands the scope of security fixes by including updates that address Important Common Vulnerabilities and Exceptions (CVEs). It also includes maintenance for RHEL for SAP Solutions (including S4/HANA) and RHEL High Availability and Resilient Storage add-ons.

    Important

    • RHEL VMs must be on v7.9 to use RHEL 7 ELS
    • RHEL 7 ELS will be available through June 30, 2028
    • To enable accurate metering and billing, please ensure that every AWS account containing a RHEL 7 VM that will be using ELS is subscribed to this offering
    • Watch this demo: Using the Host Metering service for RHEL 7 ELS on AWS 

    More than 33,000 customers and 90%* of Fortune 500 companies rely on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). This intelligent operating system (OS) serves as the consistent foundation across AWS, on premise, hybrid and multicloud environments, all the way to the edge. Not only is Red Hat Enterprise Linux optimized for a cloud environment, but also designed to host your most critical workloads with reliability and security.

    Why do organizations of all sizes around the world choose Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

    • Reduce risk with security resources and tooling
    • Build faster with developer-friendly tools and features
    • Avoid surprises with integrated analytics and remediation via Red Hat Insights, which is included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Save time with streamlined management and automation
    • Eliminate uncertainty with long-term life cycle support, flexibility and predictable release cadence

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    • Continue to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and purchase the Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) Add-On subscription to continue to receive limited software maintenance and technical support.
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ELS delivers certain Red Hat defined Critical and Important security fixes and selected (at Red Hat's discretion) urgent priority bug fixes and troubleshooting for the last minor release (RHEL 7.9). Previously released bug fixes (RHBAs), security errata (RHSAs), and product enhancements (RHEAs) will continue to be available.
    • The RHEL 7 ELS Add-On can be applied to existing RHEL 7 instances purchased from the AWS Marketplace, there is no need to reboot or redeploy them. You will begin to see a charge on your AWS bill for RHEL ELS 7 starting on July 1, 2024

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    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS)

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