Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) lets you run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly inside your Amazon VPC. In practice, that means you can bring your existing VMware environment to AWS without having to replatform or refactor your applications.

With Amazon EVS you can:

• Use the VMware skills, tools, and software you already have.
• Run VMware workloads on top of AWS infrastructure and tap into AWS scale, agility, and elasticity.
• Extend or expand your on-premises VMware footprint into the cloud as your needs grow.

Because it’s built to work natively in your Amazon VPC, Amazon EVS helps you reimagine your VMware strategy by treating AWS as a natural extension of your existing environment.

No, you don’t need to replatform or refactor your existing VMware applications to use Amazon EVS.

Amazon EVS is designed so you can:

• Keep your current VMware stack (including VMware Cloud Foundation) and operational processes.
• Continue using your existing VMware skills and tools for management and operations.
• Run those workloads directly in your Amazon VPC while taking advantage of AWS infrastructure.

This approach lets you move or extend workloads to AWS with minimal change, while you gradually rethink and modernize your architecture on your own timeline.

Amazon EVS offers flexibility in how you operate your VMware environment on AWS:

• Self-managed: Your team manages the VMware stack running in your Amazon VPC, using the same VMware tools and processes you use today.
• Partner-managed: You can work with AWS partners for a more managed experience if you prefer to offload some operational responsibilities.

Organizations that tend to benefit include:

• Enterprises that want to extend existing VMware data centers into the cloud without major application changes.
• Fast-growing companies that need AWS scale and elasticity but want to keep familiar VMware operations.
• Public sector and regulated environments that are already standardized on VMware and are looking to reimagine their cloud strategy using AWS.

Across these use cases, Amazon EVS helps teams be more agile, manage costs more effectively, and innovate faster by combining VMware familiarity with AWS cloud capabilities.