Rising virtualization costs, licensing constraints, and operational complexity are driving teams to evaluate more flexible and cost-effective paths to the cloud. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, combined with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), supports hardware overcommit in the cloud, allowing customers to run more virtual machines (VMs) on fewer cloud resources. By aligning resource consumption more closely to actual usage patterns, organizations can significantly reduce compute costs. This provides a practical way to consolidate VM footprints and maximize the value of cloud investments. Customers can also take advantage of AWS buying programs to further improve cost efficiency. ROSA supports pay-as-you-go pricing, the use of existing AWS cloud committed spend agreements, reserved instances, savings plans and, of course, unified billing. These options offer multiple paths to align OpenShift consumption with financial planning strategies and help organizations convert Red Hat software and managed site reliability engineering (SRE) services into predictable, planned expenditures. Increased efficiency Operational efficiency is another key benefit. ROSA is jointly supported by Red Hat and AWS, and Red Hat SRE teams manage the day-to-day operations of the service. This includes upgrades, monitoring, scaling, and incident response. Offloading these activities can help reduce infrastructure management efforts and free teams to focus on delivering applications, accelerating time to value. For organizations adopting AI and GPU-accelerated workloads, ROSA offers additional scalability and cost advantages when compared to on-premise environments. Teams can provision GPU instances on demand for planned projects and pay only for what they consume. This helps reduce large upfront capital expenditures while ensuring GPU resources are allocated efficiently and used at high utilization rates. Together, these capabilities help organizations make better use of their cloud resources by modernizing onto a single application platform. OpenShift provides a consistent environment for running traditional VMs, cloud-native applications and AI/ML workloads, reducing infrastructure sprawl and lowering per-workload costs as environments grow. Watch the video below to learn more about optimizing costs with ROSA. Product trial Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine | Product Trial About the author More like this DxOperator from DH2i is now certified for Red Hat OpenShift 4.19 HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 for Red Hat OpenShift SREs on a plane | Technically Speaking More about Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Products A fully managed turnkey application platform in a native AWS environment. An enterprise application platform with a unified set of tested services for bringing apps to market on your choice of infrastructure. Related articles Resources Walkthrough See what it looks like in-console to access a newly created ROSA cluster Learning Hub Materials and tools organized by top tasks E-book Transform your applications with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Keep exploring FAQ Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS frequently asked questions Analyst report The Total Economic Impact™ of Red Hat OpenShift cloud services E-book Modernize IT with cloud services for Red Hat OpenShift Webinar Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Services 201: A deep dive into Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Documentation Training Free training course Introduction to Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) Browse by channel Automation The latest on IT automation for tech, teams, and environments Artificial intelligence Updates on the platforms that free customers to run AI workloads anywhere Open hybrid cloud Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud Security The latest on how we reduce risks across environments and technologies Edge computing Updates on the platforms that simplify operations at the edge Infrastructure The latest on the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform Applications Inside our solutions to the toughest application challenges Virtualization The future of enterprise virtualization for your workloads on-premise or across clouds