How can a custom Red Hat Enterprise Linux image be launched on Amazon Web Services EC2 instance?

Learning path | 3 resources | Published on January 15, 2025
Nikhil Mungale

Create and deploy a custom Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) image on AWS EC2 instance using the Red Hat Image Builder. This LE guides you through creating a RHEL image for AWS, exploring optional customizations like security profiles, repositories, and partitioning, and addressing potential connectivity issues. By the end of the exercise, you will have a scalable RHEL AMI tailored to their needs, offering a robust starting point for application development on AWS.

Create RHEL image for AWS EC2

  1. Overview: How can a custom Red Hat Enterprise Linux image be launched on Amazon Web Services EC2 instance?
  2. Prerequisites and step-by-step guide Page
  3. Additional resources Page

Overview: How can a custom Red Hat Enterprise Linux image be launched on Amazon Web Services EC2 instance?

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on AWS provides a powerful, secure, and reliable platform for various applications and workloads. It offers enterprise-grade stability, robust security features, and seamless integration with AWS services. RHEL's optimized performance, scalability, and high availability are ideal for mission-critical applications, hybrid cloud deployments, high-performance computing, containerized applications, and SAP workloads.

In this learning exercise, you will create a customized RHEL image and launch it on an AWS EC2 instance. We will do this using the Red Hat Image builder wizard.