# Amazon Elastic VMware Service Documentation

Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) allows you to deploy and run a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment directly on EC2 bare metal instances within your Amazon VPC.

- [User Guide](/evs/latest/userguide/): Describes all Amazon EVS concepts and provides instructions on using the various features with both the console and the command line interface.
- [API Reference](/evs/latest/APIReference/): Documents the Amazon EVS API.
- [Amazon EVS section of AWS CLI v2 Reference](https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/evs/index.html): Documents the Amazon EVS commands available in the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) version 2.
- [CloudFormation resources for Amazon EVS](/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/AWS_EVS.html): Documents the CloudFormation resources and properties for Amazon EVS.

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