AWS – AWS launches public preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)

Today, AWS is expanding access to Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) through public preview. Building on the momentum from the initial private preview announcement at AWS re:Invent 2024, public preview opens access for AWS customers who want to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based workloads within their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).

During public preview, you can leverage VCF license portability entitlements and migrate non-production workloads to Amazon EVS. You can provision and configure your environment through a guided workflow and automatically deploy a fully-functional VCF environment on AWS. Amazon EVS allows you to bring in familiar VCF tools and external storage solutions, including Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, to meet the unique demands of your applications and optimize your virtualization stack in the cloud. At this time, Amazon EVS supports VCF version 5.2.1 and running workloads on i4i.metal instances. You can expect to have the same easy-to-use console interface and functionality at general availability.  Additionally, any environments deployed during the public preview will carry forward without redeployment as the service moves into general availability.

The public preview of Amazon EVS is currently available in five Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt).

Access Amazon EVS on the AWS console. Learn more about Amazon EVS on the product page and user guide.

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