In my recent use, the Red Hat subscription management experience is night and day compared to even a few years ago. It's seamless and very much out of the way for most cases because of Simple Content Access[1]. And producing custom RHEL images for deployments in the cloud (or otherwise) is now supported by Red Hat through their Image Builder service[2] (which you can deploy locally on a RHEL box too[3][4]).

In general, there's been a huge revamp of the user experience for RHEL and associated services. And it's been for the better. The experience on console.redhat.com is stellar and worth it alone, in my view.

[1]: https://access.redhat.com/articles/simple-content-access

[2]: https://console.redhat.com/insights/image-builder

[3]: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

[4]: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...