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{partner-product-name} can use AWS services and features, including virtual private clouds (VPCs), Availability Zones, security groups, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), and Elastic Load Balancing to build a reliable and scalable cloud platform.

This reference deployment provides AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy {partner-product-name} on a new or existing OpenShift cluster. This cluster includes:

* A Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster created in a new or existing VPC on Red Hat CoreOS (RHCOS) instances, using the https://cloud.redhat.com/openshift/install/aws/installer-provisioned[Red Hat OpenShift Installer Provisioned Infrastructure^]. See the https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/installing/index.html[OpenShift Container Platform Installation Overview^] for details about the underlying OpenShift deployment architecture.

* A highly available  block or file storage infrastructure, as validated with {partner-product-name}. For more information, see {partner-product-name} documentation on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-security/1.9?topic=planning-storage-requirements[Storage Requirements^].

* Scalable OpenShift compute nodes running {partner-product-name} services.