Amazon Elastic VMware Service

Amazon EVS features

Run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

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Simplified migration experience

Move to the cloud with guided workflows in the AWS console or through the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) to provision and configure your VCF environments. Rapidly add, remove, or modify Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) bare-metal instances in vSphere clusters and use VMware’s vMotion and vSphereHA capabilities just as you would in an on-premises environment.

Learn to configure and deploy environments on Amazon EVS

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Control over your virtualization stack on AWS

With full administrative access to ESXi, vCenter, NSX, and SDDC manager, you can build your virtualization stack on AWS while maintaining complete control over network, compute, and storage configuration.

Learn more about Amazon EVS architecture

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Customer-managed and partner-managed options

Amazon EVS offers you the choice to self-manage or leverage the AWS Partner Network for managing and operating your VCF environment. Work with the broadest community of partners including systems integrators who specialize in AWS services along with ISVs who adapt their technology to work on AWS.

Discover AWS Partners to help manage your environments

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Access to 200+ AWS services

Building VMware deployments within your VPC provides seamless access to AWS cloud-native analytics, storage, serverless compute, and operational management tools. AWS is the most comprehensive cloud with over 200 fully featured services, giving you access to trusted infrastructure services and emerging technologies such as generative AI, analytics, Internet of Things, and more.

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