AWS for VMware: Your complete re:Invent 2025 guide

Discover how to revolutionize your VMware environment with AWS’s latest AI-powered migration tools and modernization solutions. This year’s re:Invent showcases new breakthroughs such as AWS Transform and Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), real-world transformation strategies from industry leaders and guidance to get your digital transformation started.

We’ve curated the top VMware-focused sessions that matter most to your cloud journey. Each session delivers actionable insights, from technical deep dives to hands-on migration workshops, featuring customer success stories and proven modernization frameworks to help you solve your most important migration challenges.

From foundational migration planning to advanced architectural deep dives, there’s a session dedicated to where you are in your digital transformation. Join expert-led workshops, interactive labs, and strategy discussions to master the latest AWS tools and best practices for seamless cloud adoption.

Migration and Modernization Strategies

IT teams everywhere are looking to transform legacy systems and determine the best path forward for their applications while ensuring ROI and business continuity. These sessions bring together real-world experiences, customer success stories, and an overview of different migration pathways to help you confidently migrate your VMware workloads to the cloud.

AWS for VMware Migrations: Successes, roadmaps, & strategies | MAM203 | Level: 200
Type: Breakout session – Customer Panel
Date & Location: Monday, Dec 1 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | Wynn
Join IT leaders who successfully migrated their VMware environments to AWS as they share their cloud journey experiences. Learn from their proven tools, strategies, and lessons learned during migration planning and execution. These global organizations will share insights into their modernization roadmaps and innovation strategies, providing valuable guidance for your own cloud transformation, whether you’re just beginning or navigating challenges.

Map your VMware workloads migration and modernization journey to AWS | MAM323 | Level: 300
Type: Chalk talk
Date & Location: Tuesday, Dec 2 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | Wynn
This interactive session explores tailored migration and modernization strategies for diverse VMware workloads, considering unique requirements, dependencies, and business goals. Learn to match approaches from lift-and-shift to full cloud-native transformation, leveraging innovations like generative AI to accelerate migration and reduce risk. We’ll cover best practices, licensing considerations, and strategic frameworks to optimize investments and guide informed decisions, helping you build resilient, scalable cloud architectures aligned with your business objectives and technical constraints.

Pioneering Agentic AI Transformation: CSL VMware & SAP modernization | MAM346 | Level: 300
Type: Breakout session
Date & Location: Wednesday, Dec 3 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Wynn
Discover how CSL Behring transformed their infrastructure by migrating 4000+ VMware servers and consolidating SAP systems using AWS Transform’s agentic AI. Their strategy achieved 10x faster discovery and planning processes while reducing technical debt and licensing costs. Learn how they unified their ERP landscape through RISE with SAP on AWS, establishing enterprise-wide data standards. This case study provides technical guidance and practical insights you can apply to your organization’s transformation journey.

VMware to AWS Readiness: Foundational decisions before your migration | MAM357 | Level: 300
Type: Chalk talk
Date & Location: Monday, Dec 1 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST | MGM
Join us to explore key decisions that drive successful VMware to AWS migrations. We’ll examine how choices in licensing, operating models, technology architecture, and organizational readiness influence your migration outcomes. Learn to comprehensively assess your VMware environment’s dependencies and business constraints while using a practical framework for stakeholder alignment and future-proof planning. This session provides essential strategic guidance to help you avoid common migration pitfalls and ensure long-term success.

Product Deep Dives and Hands-on Workshops: AWS Transform

Explore AWS Transform through immersive sessions designed to accelerate your VMware to AWS migration journey. Modernize your workloads to Amazon EC2, save on VMware licensing costs, and leverage agentic AI to automate application discovery, dependency mapping, network translation, wave planning, and optimized EC2 instance selection. Whether you’re seeking strategic insights through breakout sessions or hands-on experience through workshops, you’ll discover how to reduce complexity in your cloud migration and learn how to get started.

Agentic AI for VMware migrations with AWS Transform for VMware | MAM202 | Level: 200
Type: Breakout session
Date & Location: Wednesday, Dec 3 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | Wynn
Discover AWS Transform, the first agentic AI service for large-scale VMware migrations to Amazon EC2. See a live demo of how it automates application discovery, dependency mapping, network translation, wave planning, and server migration with optimized EC2 instance selection. Learn how to overcome licensing challenges and vendor lock-in while modernizing your VMware infrastructure to cloud-native architecture, enabling faster and more confident migrations.

Accelerating Cloud Migration with Agentic AI: Hands-on AWS Transform [REPEAT] (PEX307-R)
Type: Builders’ session
Date & Location: Wednesday, Dec 3 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST | Caesars Forum
Join us to discover how AWS Partners can leverage AI-powered AWS Transform to optimize their clients’ cloud migration journeys. In this hands-on session, learn how to utilize advanced AI agents to accelerate migration assessments, planning, and workload movements to AWS. Partners will gain valuable insights into prompt engineering strategies, explore practical use cases, and witness a complete automated migration in under an hour. Understand how AWS Transform for VMware and AWS Transform Assessments can help you deliver streamlined migration services while maintaining control and visibility. Bring your questions for an interactive discussion on maximizing your migration practice with AI.

VMware to AWS modernization blueprint: Migrate, containerize, scale | MAM338 | Level: 300
Type: Workshop
Date & Location: Wednesday, Dec 3 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST | Wynn
This hands-on workshop provides a technical blueprint for migrating from VMware to AWS and modernizing your workloads. Following the journey from VMware to Amazon EC2 to containers, you’ll learn to use AWS Transform with agentic AI for faster, scalable migrations. The workshop demonstrates containerization using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), microservices implementation, and cloud-native solution development. AWS experts with proven VMware migration experience will guide you through application architecture reimagining, infrastructure optimization, and innovation acceleration.

Fast-Track your VMware to AWS Migration with AWS Transform | MAM316 | Level: 300
Type: Workshop
Date & Location: Tuesday, Dec 2 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | MGM
In this hands-on workshop, learn AWS Transform’s AI-powered capabilities for converting VMware workloads into cloud-native solutions. You’ll gain practical experience with agentic AI for automated discovery, dependency mapping, and infrastructure conversion, while learning to use AWS Modernization Pathways for efficient migration planning. The session focuses on transforming legacy VMware environments into optimized cloud-native architectures, helping you maximize AWS investment while reducing complexity, costs, and migration risks.

Scale VMware migrations with Cloud Migration Factory & AWS Transform | MAM335 | Level: 300
Type: Workshop
Date & Location: Thursday, Dec 4 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST | MGM
Learn to automate large-scale VMware migrations using AWS Transform and Cloud Migration Factory in this hands-on workshop. Get practical experience with proven automation patterns for discovery, testing, and cutover processes that can reduce manual effort by 90%. You’ll explore real-world frameworks that enable compliant, large-scale migrations with simplified change control. Please bring your laptop to participate.

Product Deep Dives: Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)

Join Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) sessions to help you learn how you can run your VMware workloads on AWS without the need to replatform or refactor your applications. These sessions will cover everything you need to successfully deploy and scale your VMware environment in the cloud.

A complete guide to Amazon EVS: Unlock AWS scale for VMware workloads | MAM201 | Level: 200
Type: Breakout session
Date & Location: Tuesday, Dec 2 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | MGM
Amazon EVS offers a seamless way to migrate your VMware workloads to AWS without the hassle of replatforming or refactoring. This service lets you leverage AWS’s robust infrastructure while protecting your existing VMware investments and expertise. Whether you choose to self-manage or work with AWS Partners, Amazon EVS provides flexible options for customizing your virtual environment, complete with integrated storage, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities. The platform’s intuitive deployment process and continuous innovation ensure you have the tools and flexibility needed to optimize your cloud journey.

Amazon EVS Deep Dive: Advanced Networking and Storage Architecture | MAM401 | Level: 400
Type: Chalk talk
Date & Location: Thursday, Dec 4 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM PST | MGM
Amazon EVS offers flexibility in building your cloud virtualization stack. This deep dive session focuses on advanced patterns for Amazon EVS environments, covering network architecture, inter-VPC communication, and advanced networking strategies. We’ll also explore advanced storage architecture patterns to help optimize performance and costs as you scale your environment.

Amazon EVS Deep Dive: Strategic migration planning | MAM305 | Level: 300
Type: Chalk talk
Date & Location: Wednesday, Dec 3 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | MGM
Join us for an interactive technical session on running VMware workloads with Amazon EVS on AWS. We’ll show you how to architect and plan Amazon EVS environments for optimal migration success, covering technical prerequisites, capacity planning, and host placement options. Learn best practices for integrating storage, backup, and disaster recovery solutions with Amazon EVS, plus discover how to maximize your cloud deployment by connecting with other AWS services

Optimizing Storage costs for Amazon EVS with FSx for ONTAP (sponsored by NetApp) | MAM101 | Level: 100
Type: Breakout session
Date & Location: Wednesday, Dec 3 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | MGM
Amazon EVS enables seamless VMware workload migration to AWS without re-platforming. When combined with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, it addresses common migration challenges like high TCO and complex data operations. This integration offers enterprise-grade data management capabilities, including seamless data migration, Autonomous Ransomware Protection, and optimized storage utilization with enterprise features typically found in on-premises solutions. Presented by AWS Partner NetApp.

Migrate from VMware to AWS: Cloud Operations Best Practices | COP325 | Level: 300
Type: Chalk talk
Date & Location: Tuesday, Dec 2 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay
Join us for an interactive session focused on optimizing Amazon EVS through AWS Cloud Operation services. We’ll explore how AWS Organizations, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Systems Manager can automate tasks, improve visibility, strengthen governance, and speed up migrations. You’ll gain practical strategies to enhance your migration process and run workloads more efficiently and securely in AWS, making this session valuable for both new migrations and existing Amazon EVS deployment optimization.

Get Ready for AWS re:Invent 2025

AWS re:Invent 2025 is just around the corner, and it’s packed with invaluable insights from AWS experts and customers who’ve successfully modernized and migrated their VMware workloads to AWS. Here’s your ultimate preparation checklist:

1. Register for AWS re:Invent 2025
2. Reserve your seats for these sessions in the re:Invent Portal
3. Join the conversation on social media using #reInvent
4. Download the AWS Events mobile app to build your schedule

Dive Deeper: AWS for VMware Resources
Explore these resources to get a head start:

• AWS for VMware
• AWS Transform for VMware
• Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)
• AWS for VMware Partners

Stay in the Loop
Don’t miss a beat! Follow @AWSreInvent and keep an eye on the #reInvent hashtag across your favorite social platforms. It’s the perfect way to connect with other attendees and soak in the pre-event excitement.
Pro Tip: Session schedules are subject to change. For the most up-to-date information, always refer to the official AWS re:Invent Session Catalog.