Cloud Access
Catalog row in Vendor License Programs · Cited
- Kind
- Cloud policy
- Term
- Remainder of existing subscription term. Deployment does not change start date or duration (Appendix 1 §3.1). On Vendor termination, remainder of term usable on another Vendor Cloud or on premises (§3.5).
- Aliases
- Red Hat Cloud Access; BYOS
- Definition
- Appendix 1 §4 (February 2026): “Cloud Access is the Red Hat program when using Eligible Subscriptions in a Vendor’s Cloud.” “Eligible Subscriptions means certain Subscriptions that meet the criteria for Cloud Access set forth at www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/access.” “Vendor means the Red Hat authorized third party from whom you purchase Cloud services and who is authorized by Red Hat to participate in the Cloud Access program.” “Cloud means a Vendor's hosted computing infrastructure that provides systems, virtual machines or container hosts to end users.”
- Commercial rules
- Appendix 1 §3.1: “You may deploy Subscriptions in a Vendor’s Cloud under the Cloud Access program if you have purchased a sufficient number of Units, provided the Subscriptions do not have Units that are solely based on physical attributes” (portal: https://access.redhat.com/management/cloud). “The deployment of Subscriptions for use in a Vendor’s Cloud does not change the start date or the duration of the original Subscriptions.” §3.2: Vendor may report usage to Red Hat. §3.3: “Payments to Red Hat for Subscriptions do not include any fees that may be due to the Vendor for the Vendor’s Cloud services.” Red Hat is not a party to the Vendor agreement and is not responsible for providing access to the Vendor’s Cloud. “Red Hat will provide Support to you for each Eligible Subscription pursuant to this Agreement.” §3.5 Vendor termination: “Red Hat may terminate the availability of a particular Vendor that offers Cloud Access with sixty (60) day notice, provided you may continue to use any Subscriptions for the remainder of the term on another Vendor’s Cloud or on your premises.” Landing page: “You pay Red Hat for subscriptions, and pay the cloud provider for services used on their cloud service.” FAQ: “The terms of your subscription with Red Hat, including pricing, remain the same.” Gold images (FAQ) = BYOS cloud-ready VM images; “there is no Red Hat subscription cost attached to gold images like there is for PAYG images.” PAYG marketplace images are the cloud seller’s bundled subscription — not a Red Hat commercial program. Featured CCSP Vendors (FAQ, non-exhaustive): Alibaba, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure; other eligible CCSP partners in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog. CCSP is the partner authorization list Cloud Access consumes — not a separate customer program. Counting remains Appendix 1 Units of the Eligible Subscription. Cloud Access does not publish a 2-vCPU = 1-socket conversion. Socket-pair does not convert to Core-pair. Exhibit 1.B’s “one (1) Core is equivalent to two (2) vCPUs with hyper-threading active” applies only within Exhibit 1.B.
- Applies to
- Eligible Subscriptions as FAQ / portal list (TEXT, non-exhaustive — not a RHEL/OpenShift SKU dump): Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (including Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions), Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat Middleware, Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation, Red Hat Gluster Storage, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer. “This list is not comprehensive.” Criteria at www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/access. Subscriptions whose Units are solely based on physical attributes are not eligible (Appendix 1 §3.1).
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