Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Preview)

Migration & Transfer

Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), a new native AWS service that enables customers to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on EC2 bare-metal instances directly within their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) alongside their other applications. Amazon EVS simplifies and automates the deployment of a ready-to-use VCF environment, allowing customers to quickly migrate VMware-based virtual machines to AWS, while keeping the same familiar VCF stack they already use on-premises. Amazon EVS unlocks the cost and scale benefits of the cloud, without having to refactor or re-platform VMware-based workloads. With the ability to set up a fully functional VCF stack in just a few hours, Amazon EVS simplifies the migration experience through automated deployment, allowing customers to quickly move, extend, and scale applications on AWS. Using EVS, customers have the flexibility and control to configure infrastructure that is highly optimized for their specific workloads giving them the freedom to extend on-premises networks and migrate workloads without having to change IP addresses, retrain staff, or re-write operational runbooks. EVS customers can use the same VCF features and tools for management, monitoring, and automation as they do on-premises, including third-party tools for backup, disaster recovery, storage and more.