Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift
A fully managed turnkey application platform that helps organizations increase operational efficiency, focus on innovation, and quickly build, deploy, and scale applications.
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Product details
Turnkey application platform
Rely on a turnkey application platform with built-in CI/CD, monitoring and developer tooling to get started quickly and offload the ongoing management of your applications.
Global SRE expertise
Reduce operational complexity with automated deployment and management, backed by a global Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. Focus on building and scaling applications, including AI-enabled apps, rather than managing infrastructure.
Native Azure service
Access a native Azure service on demand from the Azure console. The service is jointly engineered, operated and supported by Microsoft and Red Hat – and billed directly through Microsoft. Seamlessly integrate with other Azure native tools.
Security and compliance
Maintain compliance regulations and gain confidence in controls over data access, storage, and security vulnerabilities. Enhance protection for sensitive workloads with confidential containers. Azure Red Hat OpenShift is also generally available on Microsoft Azure for U.S. Government.
Streamlined hybrid cloud deployment
Gain a production-ready application platform that many enterprises already use on-premises today, making it easier and faster to shift workloads to Azure as business needs change.
Global availability
Access Azure Red Hat OpenShift in 30+ regions supported by Microsoft Azure. To ensure the highest resiliency, cluster components are deployed across 4 Azure Availability Zones in supported Azure regions.
Benefits
Deliver applications quickly using a turnkey application platform.
Accelerate time to value
Focus on building and scaling applications that add value to the business. Some users saw 60% to 70% reduction in development time.
Focus on innovation
Simplify operations so your teams can refocus on innovation. One study found a 50% reduction in infrastructure management effort.
Hybrid cloud flexibility
Get consistent OpenShift experience across any environment: public cloud, private cloud, and edge.
Increase operational efficiency
Enhance operational consistency, efficiency and security by proactive management and support
One platform for multiple workloads
Here’s what analysts have to say about Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat is a Leader for the 3rd year in a row in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management
Red Hat is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-native Application Platforms
How is Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift priced?
Azure Red Hat OpenShift consists of two components: Azure infrastructure costs and Azure Red Hat OpenShift service fees.
Azure infrastructure costs
Azure infrastructure costs include control plane nodes, infrastructure nodes, and worker nodes which are billed at Linux VM pricing. Compute, networking, and storage costs are billed according to usage.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift service fee
The Azure Red Hat OpenShift service fee is based on the number of worker nodes and instance type.
On-demand or annual contract options are available. Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) applies. Learn more about using your committed spend and optimizing cloud costs.
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With Azure Red Hat OpenShift, we are able to accelerate the implementation of these integrations without worrying about the underlying operations or management of our platform. The combined expert engineering and support from Microsoft and Red Hat give us confidence that we can scale efficiently and cost-effectively as our business continues to grow.
Outcomes of using Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift
Vodafone NZ
Vodafone NZ transformed from a traditional system landscape to a modern, cloud-based set of systems. Vodafone chose Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift to integrate ability and nimbleness into their stack.
Ortec Finance
Ortec Finance built the Ortec Finance Cloud Application (ORCA) platform using Azure Red Hat OpenShift to run web applications at scale and developers have a choice of fully managed Azure database services.
Suncorp
To support higher demand for digital claim services, Suncorp replaced its on-premise datacenter infrastructure with a multicloud approach.