Compared to other cloud environments like Amazon or Google, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is an expensive solution. I rate the solution a six out of ten for pricing.
IT Specialist | SRE | Cloud Public & Private at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Reseller
Top 5
2023-04-18T12:47:00Z
Apr 18, 2023
It's expensive compared to a similar product, and we've only used some of its features on Kubernetes. Therefore, we are evaluating whether we will consider the possibility of replacing OpenShift, but nothing is certain yet.
Sr manager cloud engineering at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
2022-12-23T02:42:00Z
Dec 23, 2022
When it comes to pricing, I would say Red Hat has a lot of flexibility. You can work with them and they are very flexible on pricing. Especially if you're new at it, they're extremely aggressive to let you try the product and they bring their prices way down. The one problem with that can be – and something a lot of companies worry about – that if you get it really cheap, they will nail you two years down the road because you can't get rid of it easily and it can get very expensive. I have not seen that in the two companies I've worked for with OpenShift. For us, the price has gone up because we used it more but they didn't kill us on the pricing. So I think they're quite flexible on their pricing and they're competitive and they know you can choose other vendors to do your Kubernetes with besides OpenShift. So I would say to other people that are looking at getting it: be aggressive on the pricing and do your homework, see what else it would cost to you somewhere else, and then hammer that salesperson to get you the best price.
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I rate the product's price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. The product is expensive.
The product is affordable. I rate the product’s pricing a three out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.
The tool is open-source.
Compared to other cloud environments like Amazon or Google, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is an expensive solution. I rate the solution a six out of ten for pricing.
It's expensive compared to a similar product, and we've only used some of its features on Kubernetes. Therefore, we are evaluating whether we will consider the possibility of replacing OpenShift, but nothing is certain yet.
When it comes to pricing, I would say Red Hat has a lot of flexibility. You can work with them and they are very flexible on pricing. Especially if you're new at it, they're extremely aggressive to let you try the product and they bring their prices way down. The one problem with that can be – and something a lot of companies worry about – that if you get it really cheap, they will nail you two years down the road because you can't get rid of it easily and it can get very expensive. I have not seen that in the two companies I've worked for with OpenShift. For us, the price has gone up because we used it more but they didn't kill us on the pricing. So I think they're quite flexible on their pricing and they're competitive and they know you can choose other vendors to do your Kubernetes with besides OpenShift. So I would say to other people that are looking at getting it: be aggressive on the pricing and do your homework, see what else it would cost to you somewhere else, and then hammer that salesperson to get you the best price.