Free RHEL instances from AWS

Received a newsletter from Amazon AWS saying that they now offer 750 hours/month of RHEL instances for free.
This should be extremely useful for RedHat certification preparation.

Dear Amazon Web Services Customer,

We are excited to announce that AWS is now offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as an option in addition to Linux/UNIX in the Linux free tier usage pool. You now have the option to run RHEL as part of your 750 hours of free Linux usage each month to test drive RHEL on Amazon EC2.

See the AWS Free Tier Section to learn how to get started with RHEL in the free usage tier, or the Red Hat Section to learn about RHEL on Amazon EC2. Visit the Resources Section to find Getting Started Guides, development tools, and tutorials, or visit the Community Forums to get your questions answered.

Sincerely,
The Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute Team

Also see
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/redhat/

I hope this will not be taken as advertisement, I just happen to be a fan (and a heavy production user) of Amazon AWS.

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UnixGuy

Thanks for sharing!

Now that I started the job hunt again, I see AWS mentioned a lot in job ads. It'd be interesting to get a chance to work with AWS

ChooseLife

Welcome

In the short few years AWS has grown immensely, they now dominate the public cloud market (I'd argue they single-handedly created it) and challenge traditional data centers, MSPs and hosting providers. For the last several years I have been managing production environments across several public cloud providers, including AWS, as well traditional data centers, and it is just fascinating to see how fast AWS is penetrating the market and maturing as a product...

I'd imagine having AWS on your resume would bring about a lot more hits from recruiters...

UnixGuy

ChooseLife wrote: »

I'd imagine having AWS on your resume would bring about a lot more hits from recruiters...

Absolutely ! the only trick is how to get this kind of opportunity

ChooseLife

UnixGuy wrote: »

Absolutely ! the only trick is how to get this kind of opportunity

Just start using it

The free tier includes quite a few things, and even the non-free stuff is not expensive if you run them like a lab, turning them on only when needed.

timme

Awesome, thanks for the link.

UnixGuy

@ChooseLife That's a good idea. Actually I have one month off now (between jobs), so I'm reviewing a bit. I was thinking of learning Puppet or AWS in my free time

Sounds Good

They introduced AWS certifications recently if you want to take a look into that.