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Amazon’s web services division has decided to take Red Hat Linux to the web in their scalable computational cloud.

Red Hat on Wednesday announced a significant departure from its current business plan, saying its flagship Linux product will be available on Amazon.com’s Elastic Computing Cloud online service.

Previously, the Raleigh, N.C.-based company only sold its Red Hat Enterprise Linux product in the form of a support contract costing between $349 and $2,499 per year. But in a beta program beginning in the fourth quarter, the software will be available on Amazon’s EC2 infrastructure, Red Hat said.

This is HUGE for businesses who need to get a little (or a lot of) additional horsepower without learned a new platform or adjusting many of their already installed applications.

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