Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)

The fastest path to migrate and operate VMware workloads on AWS

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Meet Amazon EVS (Preview)

Run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) with Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS). Experience the scale, resilience, and performance of AWS while keeping your familiar VCF software and skills---all without re-platforming or re-factoring. Whether you choose to self-manage or work with AWS Partners, Amazon EVS allows you to seamlessly extend and expand your VMware environment and unlock business agility and transformation.

With expanded access through public preview, you can leverage your VCF license portability and migrate non-production to Amazon EVS.

Access Amazon EVS on the AWS console

How Amazon EVS helps you in your cloud journey

Simplify and accelerate your migration to AWS

Remove migration friction and ensure operational consistency with subscription portability and automated deployment of VCF in the cloud. Extend on-premises networks and migrate workloads without having to change IP addresses, retrain staff, or re-write operational runbooks.

Retain control of your VMware architecture in the cloud

Keep complete control over your VMware architecture and optimize a virtualization stack that meets the unique demands of your applications including add-ons and third-party solutions.

Self-manage or leverage AWS Partners for a managed experience

Unlock choice and flexibility to self-manage or leverage the expertise of AWS Partners to manage and operate your VCF environment on AWS to meet your business goals across talent, time, and costs.

Scale and protect your business from disruptions

Enhance scalability on the most secure, scalable, and resilient cloud for migrating and operating your VMware-based workloads.

Embrace AWS innovation to transform your applications and infrastructure

As an AWS service, Amazon EVS simplifies extending and expanding your VMware environment with 200+ services (including managed databases, analytics, containers, serverless, and generative AI) to transform your business.

Use cases

Migrate and scale rapidly to the cloud

Quickly migrate workloads to AWS, eliminating aging infrastructure, reducing operational costs, and meeting critical business timelines with a seamless, strategic data center exit strategy.