Why run Linux on Google Cloud?

Enterprises in the cloud have a lot going for them, including improved agility, adaptability, flexibility, and reliability. Combining on-premise infrastructure with cloud services can revitalize existing processes and increase the number of tools and technologies at your disposal. 

Linux® and Google Cloud can help advance your enterprise to the cloud and into the future. Let’s take a look at each platform before learning what makes them stand out as a team.

Google Cloud

Google Cloud, like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, is a public cloud platform. Via the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud provides cloud services and management tools that deliver everything needed to build effective hybrid cloud and multicloud environments, deploy applications and application programming interfaces (APIs), and support workloads across environments. 

Google Cloud’s security-focused tools help your enterprise take advantage of all the benefits of cloud computing. This includes Google Cloud multicloud solutions, which give users flexibility to migrate, build, and optimize applications across hybrid cloud and multicloud environments, without being locked in to 1 vendor. Data analytics help you make informed decisions from up-to-date company and inventory information. Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) provides an integrated experience with communication and productivity tools to help meet your business needs.

Google Cloud also includes:

• Google Cloud Storage (object storage).
• Google Cloud Datastore (NoSQL database).
• Google Cloud Functions (event-driven compute Platform-as-a-Service).
• Google Compute Engine or GCE (virtual machines running in Google’s datacenter).
• Google App Engine (serverless application platform).

Discover 4 benefits of using Red Hat solutions on Google Cloud

Linux for cloud computing

Linux is an open source operating system. Its open source development model makes Linux ideally suited for cloud computing in that it allows your enterprise to choose the platforms and technologies that best meet their needs. It also gives users a choice of services and vendors, avoiding unnecessary expense and vendor lock-in. Using Linux for cloud computing, you get the benefits of Linux for traditional IT deployments with the flexibility to grow using newer technologies like Kubernetes, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), and edge computing. Linux remains a great choice of operating system in cloud computing. 

Boost hybrid cloud security and consistency

Linux on Google Cloud

A strong cloud provider on an established Linux foundation means your enterprise cloud strategy is headed in the right direction. 

Google Cloud works with a number of Linux distributions such as CentOS, Ubuntu, and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®. A Linux system with Google Cloud provides users these benefits : 

• The flexibility to choose vendors and services.
• Easier migration of applications and information.
• Consistent information and processes across footprints.
• An innovative open source structure and community.

Adopting a hybrid or multicloud approach can be challenging, especially when you’re used to legacy hardware and traditional infrastructure. But the right cloud services provider and Linux distro provide a solid start.

As a Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year 2023, the way we work with Google Cloud isn’t just robust—it's award-winning. And this relationship scales. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a foundation, all our products run on Google.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux® on Google Cloud helps simplify your infrastructure platform. It speeds up application development and delivery, and it incorporates automation for your business and management processes. Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Google Cloud equips you to innovate more quickly and adapt to industry, regulatory, and global changes with an agile hybrid cloud environment.

CentOS Linux migration

If you’re migrating from CentOS Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Google Cloud offers a compliance-focused foundation designed to improve security and provide a consistent management experience across your hybrid cloud environment.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions on Google Cloud is a high-performance platform for database operations that includes SAP-specific content and features and allows organizations to deploy SAP across hybrid cloud environments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is 1 of only 2 Linux distributions certified for use with SAP HANA® and SAP S/4HANA®.

Red Hat and Google Cloud give you the capabilities you need to build and operate hybrid and multicloud environments effectively. Together, they provide flexible configuration, an open source and security-focused foundation, global network infrastructure, and advanced data management and analytics. Each component delivers key functionality with a reliable, high-performance operating environment for your workloads and applications across physical, virtualized, containerized, cloud-based, and edge infrastructure.

Visit the Google Cloud Marketplace to learn more about the Red Hat solutions available for purchase.