AWS announces launch of Amazon Elastic VMware service

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) to enable customers to quickly and easily run and scale their VMware workloads on AWS. Amazon EVS lets customers run VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS without having to re-platform or re-factor their applications. With Amazon EVS, customers can use familiar VMware tools to control and customize their virtualization stack, while realizing the security, reliability, and performance benefits of AWS for their VMware workloads.

With Amazon EVS, customers can use their VMware Cloud Foundation license portability to run their VMware workloads alongside other applications in AWS, maximizing their VMware investment without having to change IP addresses, retrain staff, or re-write operational runbooks.

Customers have the choice of self-managing Amazon EVS or working with partners from the AWS Partner Network who are experienced in managing and operating VMware Cloud Foundation environments and integrating their VMware workloads with Amazon EVS.

Customers and partners including Aeromexico, Alcaldía de Cali, Effectual, Huron Consulting Group, and more are using Amazon EVS to meet their VMware workload migration and modernization needs.

“Since 2016, enterprises have trusted AWS to run their most mission-critical VMware workloads, and today, we’re expanding our VMware portfolio by giving customers even more flexibility, control, and choice,” said Steven Jones, general manager of Commercial Applications at AWS. “Amazon Elastic VMware Service offers customers a straightforward way to bring their VMware workloads to AWS using the tools they know and trust, plus an easy onramp to the breadth of AWS services to help them increase agility, reduce costs, and accelerate innovation.”

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“Amazon Elastic VMware Service provides customers with a powerful way to extend modern private clouds to AWS based on unified and consistent VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure,” said Ahmar Mohammad, vice president of Partners, Managed Services, and Solutions GTM, VMware Cloud Foundation Division, Broadcom. “With support for VCF license portability, this service helps customers maximize the value of their existing VCF investments while also benefitting from the scale and innovation of running on AWS. Our collaboration with AWS underscores Broadcom’s commitment to delivering flexibility, efficiency, and choice for Broadcom customers.”

Amazon EVS lets customers run VMware Cloud Foundation directly within their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), providing organizations the flexibility to control and configure infrastructure, while seamlessly integrating their VMware environments with AWS’s comprehensive services. Customers can automatically deploy a fully functional VMware Cloud Foundation environment using a simple step-by-step workflow in the AWS console and continue to use familiar features—including preferred tools for backup, recovery, and storage, like Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP—that help maintain a consistent backup strategy. With Amazon EVS, customers can also leverage AWS’s industry-leading capabilities in analytics, storage, databases, serverless compute, and generative AI such as Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q for Business, and gain competitive advantage by modernizing their infrastructure and accelerating innovation with AI.

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