Maximizing your experience: Top 6 benefits of having a Red Hat account

Unlock the full Red Hat experience

Creating a Red Hat account provides an upgraded experience for Red Hat products, support, and training. Whether you're a hands-on-keyboard builder or a technical leader, a Red Hat account will help elevate your experience. 

By creating an account and logging in, you’re giving us the information we need to provide a personalized site experience, and it gives you immediate access to the product trials, expert training, and deep-dive technical resources you're most interested in.

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Not convinced? Here are 6 ways users find value when they log in to their Red Hat account. 

1. Personalized dashboard access

A Red Hat account gives you access to your own My Red Hat dashboard. This dashboard includes personalized recommendations for product trials, events, training courses, certifications, and more. My Red Hat also provides real-time snapshots of your subscriptions, support cases, and other product resources. 

2. Red Hat Summit registration access

With a Red Hat account, you can take advantage of a more seamless event registration process, and manage your entire Red Hat Summit experience, including selecting specific topic and product preferences and sessions. You'll also get personalized post-event information and resources based on your session attendance and interests.

3. Extended product trials and no-cost developer program access

Creating a Red Hat account unlocks access to a wide variety of 60-day self-service Red Hat product trials that allow you to get hands on with Red Hat technologies. It lets you access the Red Hat Developer Program, which includes a 1-year subscription to Red Hat products, no-cost access to our Developer Sandbox, access to exclusive beta releases, and developer-specific training and learning materials.

4. World class partner enablement 

If you're a Red Hat partner, there are even more benefits to having a Red Hat account, including access to our robust partner program that rewards partners for activities throughout the entire product lifecycle. Here you'll get partner resources that give you the tools you need to guide customers, register deals, and learn about incentives.

Your Red Hat account also allows you to register for training to grow your sales and technical skills, and access to Red Hat campaigns and demand generation platform—a self-serve demand generation tool that helps you customize content, execute campaigns, and track your success. Finally, you're provided with enablement support focused around account access, partner programs, product certifications, and more.

5. Elevate your knowledge

Having a Red Hat account also offers up a variety of learning opportunities. Account owners can dive into Red Hat Training courses and certifications**, customer-focused labs*, or our support knowledgebase* where, among other things, you can quickly learn how to  upgrade Red Hat products to newer versions. You can also browse our in-depth webinars and video content to stay ahead of the curve. Customers can also use Ask Red Hat* for conversational search, and join our active community on our customer portal..

6. Comprehensive product access

Lastly, a Red Hat account gives you a quick way to download the latest product releases and updates for your Red Hat products*, browse the latest product documentation, and receive exclusive customer product support*.

Long story short—a Red Hat account transforms the standard user experience into a personalized, supportive ecosystem across the Red Hat site system. Don’t just browse—take advantage of what a Red Hat account can provide to you. 

Wrapping up

Making an account is a quick process that gives you access to an entire suite of no-cost resources. Create your account or log in today to keep exploring the full power of Red Hat.

* Requires a paid Red Hat Subscription for full access 

**Cost associated with select training courses and certifications