Red Hat advances JBoss EAP on Microsoft Azure with new payment models

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s foremost provider of open source solutions, today revealed enhancements to its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) on Microsoft Azure, introducing new payment models and clustering features.

The upgrades aim to aid customers in enhancing the speed and efficiency of existing Jakarta EE applications and the creation of new ones on a fully-managed cloud platform.

The move allows organizations to harness the benefits of Red Hat OpenShift through JBoss EAP on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, a jointly developed, operated, and supported service by Red Hat and Microsoft. This enables faster cluster creation and deployment of JBoss EAP, boosting operational efficiency and application velocity.

Red Hat’s vice president of Cloud Partners, Blake Shiver, emphasized the company’s commitment to delivering cost-effective solutions through its partnership with Microsoft, aiding customers in their cloud journeys.

In addition, JBoss EAP is now available as the first fully pay-as-you-go Red Hat offering for application services in Azure Marketplace. This aids IT organizations in procuring Red Hat solutions more easily, without a prerequisite Red Hat subscription, and supports customers in moving existing applications to the cloud while benefiting from Red Hat’s support for updates, upgrades, and servicing.

Moreover, JBoss EAP on Azure App Service now includes auto-start as a clustered service, auto-scaling operations, and more. It allows the cluster size to adapt based on service load or other customizable factors, enhancing the efficiency of applications that use stateful session beans, distributed transactions, or require high availability.

The enhancements demonstrate Red Hat and Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to support JBoss EAP on Azure, offering more choice and flexibility to customers in their efforts to bring Java to the cloud.