In our use-case, needing to handle licensing in any form for additional nodes we scale up in non-production would break our processes. We run RHEL on some core

In our use-case, needing to handle licensing in any form for additional nodes we scale up in non-production would break our processes. We run RHEL on some core infrastructure with equivalents in our pre-production but CentOS everywhere else to give a ‘close enough but free’ infinitely scalable environment to our devs. As the person in charge of the existing relationship with RHEL, there is no amount of discounting or special deals that would make the extra complexity of registration worth it. We need an unencumbered freely deployable OS for our non-production, and for us the result of this change is likely to be a re-platforming to something like Amazon Linux and a seperate support contract or line item on our AWS relationship, rather than giving RedHat any more money and time. For us, this means we stop doing business with RedHat.