Amazon EVS explained: Run your VMware workloads on AWS | Amazon Web Services
Extend your VMware environment to AWS without replatforming. With Amazon Elastic VMware Service, you can run VMware Cloud Foundation directly in your Amazon VPC while leveraging AWS scale and elasticity. Watch the video to see how.
What is Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)?
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is a way to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly inside your own Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). In practice, this means you can bring your existing VMware environment—tools, processes, and skills—and run it on AWS infrastructure.
Instead of replatforming or refactoring your VMware workloads, you can move them to AWS largely as they are. Amazon EVS is designed to:
- Host VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) natively in your Amazon VPC
- Let you keep using familiar VMware tools and operational models
- Take advantage of AWS scale, agility, and elasticity for your VMware workloads
For organizations already invested in VMware, Amazon EVS provides a way to reimagine their infrastructure strategy by combining VMware operations with AWS cloud capabilities in a single environment.
Do I need to change or refactor my VMware applications to use Amazon EVS?
You do not need to replatform or refactor your existing VMware applications to use Amazon EVS. The service is designed so you can run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly in your Amazon VPC with minimal changes to how you operate today.
Key points:
- Your existing VMware skills and software remain relevant.
- You can keep your current VMware-based tools and processes.
- Workloads can be moved to AWS without a large application modernization project first.
This approach helps you reshape your cloud adoption strategy: you can move to AWS quickly with your current VMware stack, and then decide over time which applications, if any, you want to modernize using native AWS services.
How is Amazon EVS managed and how does it extend my VMware environment?
Amazon EVS is built to extend your current VMware environment into AWS while giving you flexibility in how it is managed.
Management options:
- Self-managed: Your team manages the VMware environment running on Amazon EVS, similar to how you manage VMware on premises today.
- Partner-managed: You can work with AWS partners who provide a managed experience, handling much of the day-to-day operations for you.
Extension and expansion benefits:
- Run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly in your Amazon VPC, alongside other AWS services.
- Use AWS scale, agility, and elasticity to add capacity when you need it, without building new physical infrastructure.
- Seamlessly extend your VMware footprint to the cloud, so you can rethink capacity planning, disaster recovery, and global expansion.
This model lets you keep a consistent VMware operating experience while using AWS as an additional, flexible infrastructure layer for your VMware workloads.
Amazon EVS explained: Run your VMware workloads on AWS | Amazon Web Services
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