Amazon AWS vs Red Hat OpenShift comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Red Hat are both solutions in the PaaS Clouds category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.5, while Red Hat is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.5. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 13.5% mindshare in PSP, compared to Red Hat’s 7.4% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

Amazon AWS and Red Hat OpenShift are prominent solutions in the cloud computing and container orchestration spaces. Based on feature breadth and integration flexibility, AWS holds a slight advantage.

Features: Amazon AWS offers elastic compute power, scalable storage options like S3, and dynamic availability zones, supporting a wide range of integrations. Its usage-based pricing is highly flexible. Red Hat OpenShift emphasizes robust container orchestration, seamless development lifecycle integration, and strong hybrid cloud environment support, making it ideal for complex applications.

Room for Improvement: Amazon AWS's cost is often cited as high, with suggestions for a simpler pricing model. Users also find its setup and learning curve challenging. Red Hat OpenShift users call for enhanced documentation and navigation, and streamlined hybrid cloud capabilities, while also finding smaller implementations costly.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AWS offers extensive public cloud capabilities across environments, though deployment can be complex, leading some users to seek more guided support. Red Hat OpenShift excels in hybrid and private cloud deployments. Its technical support is rated highly, with valued direct customer service and community involvement.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon AWS utilizes a pay-as-you-go model that can become costly as usage grows, though its initial cost-efficiency and lack of upfront fees are noted. Returns vary with project scale, being stronger for scalable projects. OpenShift is perceived as expensive, especially with per CPU or node pricing, though enterprise rates are competitive. Its ROI is justified by management ease and deployment advantages in containers.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

7.2

Amazon AWS offers cost-effective, scalable solutions with pay-as-you-go pricing, enabling quick deployment and significant financial benefits.

Sentiment score

7.3

Organizations save time and money with Red Hat OpenShift, achieving improved scalability, efficiency, security, and performance.

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Time was the major thing which saved a lot, and in terms of resources, it has reduced resource utilization so the remaining users can focus on other tasks.

Prashanth Vedarathna

Server Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

With OpenShift combined with IBM Cloud App integration, I can spin an integration server in a second as compared to traditional methods, which could take days or weeks.

reviewer2587590

Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Moving to OpenShift resulted in increased system stability and reduced downtime, which contributed to operational efficiency.

Jefferson Usianene

Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.8

Amazon AWS customer service is highly effective and responsive, with knowledgeable support and comprehensive documentation, enhancing user satisfaction.

Sentiment score

6.8

Red Hat OpenShift's customer service is praised for expertise but criticized for slow responses and delays in complex issue resolution.

Reaching out to them and talking is different from receiving a complete solution to your problem.

reviewer2717721

Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We have a direct line to Amazon AWS, with premium support and AWS members located within the company.

Asif Meem

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet

Amazon AWS has good technical engineers available, making their customer service reliable.

Nitesh-Sharma

Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Red Hat's technical support is responsive and effective.

Jefferson Usianene

Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group

Customer support is really good because so far in our case, we have always received a prompt response, and they have been really helpful to us.

RiteshWalia

ML Engineer - Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The response time for customer support is excellent, and they go deep and can resolve things easily.

Ayman Abuqutriyah

Operation Director at Zaintech

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.8

Amazon AWS offers exceptional scalability, enabling effortless resource expansion and efficient scaling to support diverse user needs globally.

Sentiment score

7.4

Red Hat OpenShift offers scalable resource management, efficiently adjusting containers and nodes, with room for improvement in certain environments.

The scalability of Amazon AWS is excellent.

reviewer2717721

Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Amazon AWS provides strong scalability features, but the scaling process could be made more straightforward.

Nitesh-Sharma

Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

When setting up resources, the maximum limit can go high or low, at which time instances are increased, which helps maintain latency standards.

KhaderNawaz

Architect at ebzss

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The on-demand provisioning of pods and auto-scaling, whether horizontal or vertical, is the best part.

UsmanMalik

Manager IT Infrastructure at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

OpenShift's horizontal pod scaling is more effective and efficient than that used in Kubernetes, making it a superior choice for scalability.

reviewer2587590

Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Red Hat OpenShift scales excellently, with a rating of ten out of ten.

Shan Ahmed

System Analyst at Freelancer

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Amazon AWS is highly reliable, with strong performance and minimal outages, earning high satisfaction for robustness and stability.

Sentiment score

7.8

Red Hat OpenShift offers stable, reliable performance, efficiently handling container workloads and scaling across geolocations, despite occasional issues.

If I am spinning up any managed service from the console, sometimes it fails to start up, and there will be no information about why it failed.

Asif Meem

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet

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Red Hat OpenShift can scale to thousands of nodes, allowing multiple clusters to be managed in different geolocations and managed by centralized advanced cluster management, ACM.

Ayman Abuqutriyah

Operation Director at Zaintech

It provides better performance yet requires more resources compared to vanilla Kubernetes.

reviewer2587590

Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I've had my cluster running for over four years.

Jefferson Usianene

Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group

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Room For Improvement

Amazon AWS users seek better cost management, integration, user interfaces, security, performance, support, and simplified billing and setup processes.

Red Hat OpenShift requires UI simplification, better deployment, security, autoscaling, cloud integration, and improved support for user satisfaction.

Amazon AWS could improve its user interface to make it more user-friendly, especially for people who are not highly technical.

Nitesh-Sharma

Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

When using scripts for APIs to fetch data, they don't match the data exactly with the request.

reviewer2717721

Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

If I create a Glue job, that will create S3 buckets and other resources that have cost implications, but once I clean up a Glue job, it does not delete the other accessory resources.

Asif Meem

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet

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Learning OpenShift requires complex infrastructure, needing vCenter integration, more advanced answers, active directory, and more expensive hardware.

reviewer2587590

Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Red Hat OpenShift's biggest disadvantage is they do not provide any private cloud setup where we can host on our site using their services.

Pratul Shukla

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

If I could change or improve one thing about Red Hat OpenShift, it would be to provide more information on the web because the information is limited and I need to explore more.

Erika Rivera

Manager Cybersecurity at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

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Setup Cost

Amazon AWS offers flexible pricing with cost-effectiveness, but managing expenses can be complex compared to Azure or GCP.

Red Hat OpenShift is costly compared to AKS, GKE, and EKS, but offers robust features and security.

After three to four years, if you are not managing it correctly, you will be paying more than an on-premise solution, which applies to all cloud providers, so you must regularly maintain and manage for efficiency.

reviewer2717721

Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Currently, Amazon AWS is known to be on the higher price range because popular and in-demand services often come at a premium.

Nitesh-Sharma

Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Initially, licensing was per CPU, with a memory cap, but the price has doubled, making it difficult to justify for clients with smaller compute needs.

AbdulJaleel

Senior Technical Lead at MORO

The pricing for Red Hat OpenShift is considered quite high.

reviewer2382555

Manager for Middleware at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing shows that Red Hat OpenShift comes out as an expensive solution compared to having AKS, GKE, or EKS.

reviewer2834616

Lead Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Valuable Features

Amazon AWS provides scalable compute, flexible pricing, high security, and integration, ideal for building efficient applications with minimal infrastructure.

Red Hat OpenShift enhances app deployment with security, scalability, DevOps integration, and supports cloud migration across AWS, Google, and Azure.

Amazon AWS provides IAM features for user access management as well as KMS through key management service with private and public key encryption methodology.

KhaderNawaz

Architect at ebzss

Amazon AWS offers flexibility and scalability.

Nitesh-Sharma

Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

One aspect I appreciate in Amazon AWS is their support team, which is excellent.

reviewer2717721

Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Because it was centrally managed in our company, many metrics that we had to write code for were available out of the box, including utilization, CPU utilization, memory, and similar metrics.

Pratul Shukla

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The main benefits Red Hat OpenShift provides for me as a final user include the capacity to integrate third-party tools and also the integration between observability, security, and monitoring capacities.

AlvaroFuentes

Architect Projects at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

This is one of the main things, in addition to having integration with ACM and ACS, where we can have the ability to manage multiple clusters and to secure them, deploy them, manage them, run GitOps and day-two operations, as well as upgrades and other functionality which is made easy using these tools.

Ayman Abuqutriyah

Operation Director at Zaintech

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

258

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (2nd)

Red Hat OpenShift

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Virtualization Software (6th), Container Management (7th), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (4th), Agile and DevOps Services (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Amazon AWS is 13.5%, up from 12.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift is 7.4%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

PaaS Clouds Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Amazon AWS	13.5%
Red Hat OpenShift	7.4%
Other	79.1%

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Featured Reviews

Asif Meem

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet

Managed cloud services have helped accelerate experiments with flexible configuration options

Sometimes the costs associated with spinning up a service, especially managed services, have implications. For example, if I create a Glue job, that will create S3 buckets and other resources that have cost implications, but once I clean up a Glue job, it does not delete the other accessory resources. Sometimes, I have to go hunting for what resources Amazon AWS might have provisioned and how it is costing behind the scenes. It can be complex depending on your level of expertise. It is not as easy to get started, especially when it comes to secure practices. Amazon AWS is more hands-on than other platforms.

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Pratul Shukla

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Adopting a flexible and efficient approach with noticeable improvements in operational costs and continued challenges in job management

Currently, one of the biggest challenges we face is with services and jobs. For spawning batches, although it has crons, it is not easy to integrate with enterprise systems such as Autosys. The entire company uses Autosys, but we are not able to integrate it effectively. We need intermediate servers to run OC utility commands and initiate the cron job. We have to do a lot of modifications to ensure our batches work properly. With physical or virtual servers, even in AWS, we are able to write and manage multiple jobs. Managing batches in Red Hat OpenShift has been a significant challenge. Integrating third parties is a challenge with Red Hat OpenShift. For example, with Elasticsearch, onboarding itself was difficult, running file beats and dealing with routing issues. It is not straightforward, especially since we have some components in AWS as. AWS has many capabilities that come out of the box and are easier to work with compared to Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift's biggest disadvantage is they do not provide any private cloud setup where we can host on our site using their services. The main reason we went with Red Hat OpenShift was because it is a private cloud, and we have regulatory requirements that prevent us from using public cloud.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

23%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	131
Midsize Enterprise	48
Large Enterprise	114

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	53

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Also Known As

Amazon Web Services, AWS

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Overview

Amazon AWS offers cloud services known for ease of use, scalability, and diverse services such as EC2, S3, and Lambda. Its pay-as-you-go pricing and robust security features make it a preferred choice for businesses managing growing demands efficiently.

Amazon AWS provides a comprehensive ecosystem with services like EC2 for computing, S3 for storage, and Lambda for serverless computing. It emphasizes scalability and quick resource provisioning, allowing businesses to handle IT workloads, host websites, and manage analytics seamlessly. AWS integrates a wide range of services, enhancing flexibility and reliability while offering robust security and automated management to streamline operations.

What are the most important features of Amazon AWS?

EC2: Offers scalable computing capacity in the cloud to manage business applications efficiently.
S3: Provides highly secure, durable, and scalable cloud storage solutions for data archiving and backup.
Lambda: Enables running code without provisioning or managing servers, improving application deployment.
Pricing: Employs a pay-as-you-go model, allowing cost-effective resource usage.
Security: Implements comprehensive security protocols to ensure data protection across services.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Scalability: Supports business growth by easily scaling resources according to demand.
Integration: Offers seamless integration capabilities with numerous services, enhancing operational flexibility.
Performance: Provides stable and reliable performance for critical IT workloads and applications.
Management: Features automated management tools that reduce overhead and improve deployment efficiency.

Amazon AWS is widely implemented across industries for cloud computing, infrastructure hosting, and data storage. Businesses in finance, healthcare, and technology sectors leverage AWS for running applications, hosting analytics databases, and deploying scalable solutions. By utilizing tools like EC2, S3, and Lambda, they ensure flexibility and security in infrastructure management and data applications, meeting diverse operational needs effectively.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Red Hat OpenShift is a comprehensive platform offering versatile container orchestration capabilities, suitable for businesses seeking robust, scalable, and secure solutions for application modernization efforts and microservices deployment.

Red Hat OpenShift combines a user-friendly interface with powerful CLI tools, ensuring rapid deployment and process automation. It seamlessly integrates with Docker and Kubernetes, providing cloud-native stacks for flexibility and compliance. Enhancing development efficiency, OpenShift includes built-in CI/CD tools and dynamic scaling features. It supports multi-cloud environments, avoiding vendor lock-in. However, documentation gaps, interface complexity, and infrastructure demands present challenges, alongside improving integration with third-party tools and monitoring capabilities. Licensing complexities and resource consumption remain areas for improvement, with user experience varying due to support response times.

What are Red Hat OpenShift's key features?

User-Friendly GUI: Offers an intuitive interface for managing containers and applications.
CLI Tools: Robust command line tools for efficient development workflows.
Scalability: Supports dynamic scaling to meet changing demands.
Integration: Seamless integration with Docker and Kubernetes.
Security: Features like role-based access control enhance security.
CI/CD Tools: Built-in tools like Jenkins streamline the development lifecycle.
Multi-Cloud Support: Enables use across different cloud providers.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Deployment Speed: Faster application rollouts and updates.
Automation: Reduces manual tasks, increasing operational efficiency.
Security: High-security standards for protecting applications.
Adaptability: Flexible framework suited for diverse environments.
Resource Management: Efficient allocation of resources for cost savings.

In industries embracing cloud-native architectures, Red Hat OpenShift is adept for hosting containerized applications and transitioning legacy systems. It excels in managing DevOps processes, supporting production and development in sectors such as finance, healthcare, and technology, ensuring robust hybrid on-premise and cloud operations.

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