# Red Hat OpenShift alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 198 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Red Hat OpenShift holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/red-hat-openshift/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Google Kubernetes Engine: 62
- DigitalOcean Kubernetes: 55
- Amazon EKS: 17
- Azure Kubernetes Service: 17
- Civo Kubernetes: 10
- Linode Kubernetes Engine: 9

## Managed Kubernetes platforms

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Red Hat OpenShift (Red Hat OpenShift is #10 of 10 at 0%).

- DigitalOcean Kubernetes: first choice in 46 of those 84
- Google Kubernetes Engine: first choice in 22 of those 84
- Linode Kubernetes Engine: first choice in 7 of those 84
- Civo Kubernetes: first choice in 4 of those 84
- Northflank: first choice in 2 of those 84
- Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine: first choice in 1 of those 84
- Amazon EKS: first choice in 1 of those 84
- Azure Kubernetes Service: first choice in 1 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 65 of 84 answers did not name Red Hat OpenShift (Red Hat OpenShift is #7 of 10 at 0%).

- Google Kubernetes Engine: first choice in 29 of those 65
- DigitalOcean Kubernetes: first choice in 9 of those 65
- Amazon EKS: first choice in 7 of those 65
- Azure Kubernetes Service: first choice in 6 of those 65
- Civo Kubernetes: first choice in 6 of those 65
- Linode Kubernetes Engine: first choice in 2 of those 65
- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service - EKS: first choice in 1 of those 65
- Azure Kubernetes Service - AKS: first choice in 1 of those 65

**Enterprise**: 49 of 84 answers did not name Red Hat OpenShift (Red Hat OpenShift is #4 of 9 at 6%).

- Google Kubernetes Engine: first choice in 11 of those 49
- Azure Kubernetes Service: first choice in 10 of those 49
- Amazon EKS: first choice in 9 of those 49
- AKS Automatic: first choice in 1 of those 49
- Akamai LKE: first choice in 1 of those 49
- Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine: first choice in 1 of those 49
- Google Kubernetes Engine Enterprise: first choice in 1 of those 49
- OCI\u2019s Container Engine for Kubernetes: first choice in 1 of those 49

Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.