OpenShift (AI) on AWS

For OpenShift AI Cloud Services the environments are managed by Red Hat Specialist who handle all support and operations for the OpenShift AI platform (backend) components.

Managed Offering Benefits

The OpenShift AI Cloud Services is a fully managed service, enabling customers to spin up OpenShift AI environments on cloud platforms enabling access to OpenShift AI features at hourly rates. The ability to quickly use a common tool set across clouds for Generative and Predictive AI application and solution development solves the gap of need to be an openshift customer. Customers can experience OpenShift AI features available rapidly for proof of concepts and development and non-sensitive data lab environments.

No specific lab exists for this segment, however this environment provides an example of ROSA deployed instances of RHOAI if your interested in understanding ROSA from a customer point of view.

This workshop creates Base RHODS environment on ROSA cluster. You can use this base environment for creating and running RHODS related use cases on ROSA.

OpenShift Cloud Service on AWS

There two types of options available for purchase of Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI):

Red Hat OpenShift AI self-managed
Red Hat OpenShift AI Cloud Service

For more information on the RHOAI components their current support phase and their compatibility with the underlying platforms. This link connects to the OpenShift AI Supported Configurations.

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Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS

There are two available Cloud Service options, with the main difference being the AWS account where the services are located.

Option 1:

OpenShift Dedicated with a Customer Cloud Subscription on Amazon Web Services

OpenShift Dedicated is a complete OpenShift Container Platform cluster provided as a cloud service, configured for high availability, and dedicated to a single customer. OpenShift Dedicated is professionally managed by Red Hat and hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Customer Cloud Subscription (CCS) model allows Red Hat to deploy and manage clusters into a customer’s AWS account.

While not specifically mentioned in this course, there is also an OpenShift dedicated option for Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is the only supported GCP offering of managed OpenShift / OpenShift AI.

Option 2:

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA Classic)

ROSA is a fully-managed, turnkey application platform that allows you to focus on delivering value to your customers by building and deploying applications. Red Hat site reliability engineering (SRE) experts manage the underlying platform so you do not have to worry about the complexity of infrastructure management. ROSA provides seamless integration with Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and a wide range of additional AWS services to further accelerate the building and delivering of differentiating experiences to your customers.

For ROSA Classic, get a subscription through the AWS Marketplace. You subscribe to the service directly from your AWS account. After you create clusters, you can operate your clusters with the OpenShift web console, the ROSA CLI, or through Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager.

Option 3 - Hybrid :

It maybe possible to combine both ROSA with HCP managed services with OpenShift AI self-managed services.

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) with Hosted Control Plane

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS with hosted control planes (ROSA with HCP) is a fully-managed and jointly supported Red Hat OpenShift offering that combines the power of Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform, and the AWS public cloud.

Hosting and management of the control plane is accomplished using resources (infrastructure) deployed into a Red Hat owned / managed AWS Account. The customer only hosts worker nodes which allows the environment to scale with exactly what the customer needs providing effective and efficient use of customer resources, resulting in significant cost savings, faster provisioning time, improved security posture and increased reliability for ROSA customers.

OpenShift AI is not supported on ROSA with HCP as Cloud Manage Service. However, AI workloads and applications are supported on OpenShift, and OpenShift AI self-managed can be installed by customers on ROSA with HCP. Purchase the OpenShift AI Add-on and then install OpenShift AI Self-Managed by installing the Red Hat OpenShift AI Operator.

Head to the next section to understand what AI services are accessible by deploying on AWS.