How do subscriptions in the cloud for Red Hat Enterprise Linux work?
While Red Hat Enterprise Linux cloud services include access to the same technology as other subscriptions from Red Hat, the on-demand nature of this offering includes some key differences in the subscription model. • Monthly Subscription: Customers who subscribe will be charged a monthly fee for access to the maintenance and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This subscription provides customers with access to Red Hat Network as well as access to AMI’s within the EC2 infrastructure. As long as a monthly subscription is maintained, customers will have access to the services and will be able to start and stop servers on the Amazon EC2 web service. • Hourly use fees: Upon instantiation of one or more servers at EC2, customers will be charged on a per-compute-hour model based on the type of server (Small, Large, Extra-Large) specified when the instance was started. For every server that is started, the customer’s account will be billed individually for the use of that server by the hou
