> Please, dear Red Hat, just give me a DigitalOcean VM (or something comparable) that costs a few dollars more and has automatic RHEL licensing. Make deals with

> Please, dear Red Hat, just give me a DigitalOcean VM (or something comparable) that costs a few dollars more and has automatic RHEL licensing. Make deals with the VM providers, work something out. Most of the major clouds have this pre-existing capability to charge more and revenue share the extra through their marketplace services etc; and they're in active use by other vendors. It's often a good source of revenue for both the cloud company and the vendor, and helps the customers by providing them with prebuild solutions that they don't have to build themselves (e.g. web application firewall vendors can/do provide closed source images that customers can use that way). It's not like this is expecting cloud companies to build whole new services from whole cloth just to support Red Hat.