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AWS Outposts vs Red Hat OpenShift comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

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

Categories and Ranking

AWS Outposts
Ranking in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms
7th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Red Hat OpenShift
Ranking in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
76
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (3rd), Server Virtualization Software (5th), Container Management (6th), Agile and DevOps Services (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms category, the mindshare of AWS Outposts is 8.5%, down from 13.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift is 8.4%, up from 6.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Red Hat OpenShift8.4%
AWS Outposts8.5%
Other83.1%
Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

YongjinLee - PeerSpot reviewer
Commercial Pre-Sales at Megazone
Can compose a private cloud with seamless on-premises connectivity
Outposts allows customers to compose the services they want in a private cloud-like style, which is an advantage. It includes features that allow connection only on-premises without any VPN connections or Direct Connect. Additionally, AWS can manage services when deployed on customer sites due to Outposts' capability of being installed in on-premises environments.
AA
Operation Director at Zaintech
Platform has transformed our cloud into a secure, unified home for diverse modern applications
One of the best features of Red Hat OpenShift is that it has the catalog, the application catalog, and the operator hub, which allows us to deploy things easily and straightforward without going into a lot of hassles. 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. Red Hat OpenShift also provides virtualization capabilities, and I am currently working with Zain to make a project where we will convert F5 appliances to virtual machines and to manage them through Red Hat virtualization, OVE. Red Hat OpenShift is a unique platform because it provides the features for both worlds, containerization, and VMs at the same time, requiring you to learn one skillset in order to manage all of this at the same time. In the beginning, our cloud depended only on virtual machines, so I introduced this to our management to start to work with microservices and with containerization. This was adapted in our cloud, providing us the capability to sell more of these features and to reduce the hardware requirement by about thirty percent, following the trends of using containerization for all modern applications. In addition, it reduced the time to develop and to deploy a new application; all we need is using Jenkins for CI/CD. Once we commit any code, it gets triggered, and it will implement the new container in a very flexible and easy way, within seconds. This decreased the time to market and increased agility, allowing us to capture new opportunities very fast.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"With AWS, we've had seamless integration and support for many of our applications."
"AWS can manage services when deployed on customer sites due to Outposts' capability of being installed in on-premises environments."
"Outposts allows you to isolate your private environment from the public cloud provider while enabling almost all the features that are available on public cloud services. That is the beauty of this service. It's an infrastructure that you can put in your data center and seamlessly connect to the public cloud."
"We expanded the projects over a year and a half, and we used the solution to save around 30% of our customer operations costs with both customers."
"AWS Outposts brings native AWS services, infrastructure, and API to our on-premises data center or co-location facilities."
"I think the keys to success for the solution is the easy-to-use user interface and the fact that the development team really likes the platform."
"If you compare with the full bundle of these services, you can see the difference, and this is enough for these locations in private data centers because the main reasons why the customers want to have it on their side are for the low latency and the security of their critical data."
"The most valuable aspect is that it comes in a rack form factor which makes it incredibly easy to use and deploy various AWS services."
"It is a stable platform."
"Great GUI and CLI tools allowing developers to deploy, test and delete projects on demand, freeing up time for the operations team to work on production readiness."
"OpenShift has 100% compatibility with Kubernetes."
"We have found RedHat OpenShift to provide the best solution and ease of use."
"In a couple of months, we can move from physical infrastructure to a container."
"The initial setup is simple, and OpenShift is open-source, so it's easy to install on any cloud platform."
"It seems like we're getting a pretty high return on our investment because of our ability to navigate, integrate and migrate across platforms."
"Red Hat OpenShift has proven to be an intelligent product for me, being built on Kubernetes, which is widely recognized and is where many cloud providers are deploying new workloads."
 

Cons

"The product is heavy to ship and can be difficult to handle logistically."
"It would be beneficial to have the option for capacity expansion."
"The pricing model needs improvement because right now it's very expensive. All of these solutions are very expensive and it prevents other customers or owners of data centers from buying it."
"Depending on the installation process, we have found some bugs and issues with the solution when the same platform is not used."
"It would be great if it could support Glue services."
"Also, it would be beneficial if AWS allowed for more granular and customizable pricing options."
"Outposts supports elastic coordinator services, but not elastic container services, which is the native service for containers in AWS. That is something missing in this product."
"The platform needs to spend more time investing in strengthening its governance and information tools and consider the real needs of its customers."
"OpenShift could be improved if it were more accessible for smaller budgets."
"Some of the storage services and integrations with third-party tools should be made possible."
"At this particular point, I think it is very difficult for me to suggest how Red Hat OpenShift can be improved, as I need specific documentation outlining all features."
"The solution only offers support for one server."
"Autoscaling is a very unique feature, but it could be useful to have more options based on traffic statistics, for example, via Prometheus. So, there should be more ready solutions to autoscale based on specific applications."
"We had stability issues, especially with earlier versions where the underlying Kubernetes wasn't stable at all."
"I find it quite challenging to maintain and manage everything without extensive experience."
"OpenShift can improve monitoring. Sometimes there are issues."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"AWS Outposts is a cheap solution."
"Customers should consider the high cost, which can range from $10,000 to hundreds of thousands depending on the components."
"While the longer-term pricing is suitable for enterprise contracts, it can be on the higher side, especially when organizations don't utilize all the services included in the bundles."
"The pricing of Outposts needs to be evaluated from the standpoint of what's cost-effective at your company: How are you going to use it? How much money will it save for your products or applications? Is it worth it? I would say it's probably too expensive for small or medium-sized companies. However, big companies might find it to be highly cost-effective depending on their respective cloud strategies."
"We had a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) license for all our servers' operating systems. By having multiple Red Hat products together, you can negotiate costs and leverage on having a sort of enterprise license agreement to reduce the overall outlay or TCO."
"It's expensive. It may be cheaper to invest in building Vanilla Kubernetes, especially if security is not the number one motivation or requirement. Of course, that's difficult, and in some business areas, such as banking, that's not something you can put as a second priority. In other situations, a Vanilla Kubernetes with a sufficiently strong team can be cheaper and almost as effective."
"The pricing is standard; the solution isn't particularly expensive or affordable."
"This solution is fairly expensive but comes at an average cost compared to other solutions in the market."
"I don't deal with the cost part, but I know that the cost is very high when compared to other products. They charge for CPU and memory, but we don't worry about it."
"The product’s pricing is expensive."
"The price depends on the type and the nature of the organizations, along with the types of projects that are of considerable range."
"Pricing of OpenShift depends on the number of nodes and who is hosting it."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise59
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with AWS Outposts?
Outposts is not a simple solution to implement as it needs to be shipped from the US and involves high delivery costs and running costs. The product is heavy to ship and can be difficult to handle ...
What advice do you have for others considering AWS Outposts?
I rate AWS Outposts a nine out of ten, indicating room for some improvement.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Outposts?
Customers should consider the high cost, which can range from $10,000 to hundreds of thousands depending on the components.
How does OpenShift compare with Amazon AWS?
Open Shift makes managing infrastructure easy because of self-healing and automatic scaling. There is also a wonderful dashboard mechanism to alert us in case the application is over-committing or ...
Which would you recommend - Pivotal Cloud Foundry or OpenShift?
Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a cloud-native application platform to simplify app delivery. It is efficient and effective. The best feature is how easy it is to handle external services such as database...
What needs improvement with OpenShift?
One area for improvement in Red Hat OpenShift is during upgrades, as there is currently no option to revert to a previous version if vulnerabilities or issues arise. I believe that providing such a...
 

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Sample Customers

Philips, Morningstar
UPS, Cathay Pacific, Hilton
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