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Amazon EVS is a native AWS service that allows you to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), alongside other applications. It simplifies and automates the deployment of a ready-to-use VCF environment on AWS.

With Amazon EVS, you can quickly migrate VMware-based virtual machines to AWS while keeping the same familiar VCF stack you already use on premises. Take advantage of cloud benefits such as scalability, resilience, and security — without re-platforming or re-architecting your workloads.

Amazon EVS helps you unlock the cost and scale benefits of the cloud without needing to re-platform or re-factor your VMware-based workloads. Set up a fully functional VCF stack in just a few hours through guided workflows and automated deployment. This allows you to quickly move, extend, and scale your applications on AWS.

With Amazon EVS, you can retain control and gain flexibility to configure a highly-optimized infrastructure for your specific workloads. You have the freedom to extend your on-premises networks and migrate workloads without changing IP addresses, retraining staff, or rewriting operational runbooks. You can continue using the same VCF features and tools for management, monitoring, and automation that you use on -premises, including familiar third-party tools for backup, disaster recovery, storage, and more.

Amazon EVS currently supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) i4i.metal instances. Powered by third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and featuring up to 30 TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage, i4i instances provide high performance, low latency, and security with always-on encryption. Learn more about Amazon EC2 i4i.metal instances.

Minimum cluster size is four nodes with a maximum of 16 nodes.