Microsoft Azure Now Offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but Not for China and US | Linux Today

Microsoft Azure Now Offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but Not for China and US

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Marius Nestor
Feb 18, 2016

So if you’ve been wondering what the two giants were planning all this time, we’re informing you today that it’s now possible to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) instances on the Azure cloud, as Microsoft has provided its customers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 and 7.2-based images on the Azure Marketplace.

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Marius Nestor

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