InfoWorld reports that Red Hat made its Enterprise Linux OS available on demand Wednesday by releasing it for the Amazon EC2 service.

A private beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 is now available with a public beta slated to be made available before the end of the year. The base prices for the service are $19 per month per user and $0.21, $0.53, or $0.94 for every computer hour used on the EC2 services, depending on the size, bandwidth and storage fees of the services purchased.

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