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Document history for the Amazon Elastic VMware Service User Guide - Amazon Elastic VMware Service

Document history for the Amazon Elastic VMware Service User Guide

The following table describes the documentation releases for Amazon Elastic VMware Service.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Added environment connector and entitlement user guides

Added user guides for managing Amazon EVS environment connectors and entitlements. Connectors establish a persistent connection between Amazon EVS and a VCF appliance, enabling features such as Windows License Included. Entitlements allow you to enable or remove Windows Server license coverage for virtual machines in your Amazon EVS environment.

April 20, 2026

Updated AmazonEVSServiceRolePolicy

Amazon EVS has updated the managed policy AmazonEVSServiceRolePolicy to allow the service to retrieve vCenter credentials from AWS Secrets Manager and decrypting secrets encrypted with customer-managed KMS keys.

March 23, 2026

Release support for VCF-5.2.2

Amazon EVS now supports VCF-5.2.2 allowing the ability to specify supported combinations of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and ESX software versions when setting up your EVS environments and hosts.

January 20, 2026

Amazon EVS released in multiple AWS Regions

Amazon EVS was released in the US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan), Mexico (Central), and South America (São Paulo) Regions.

December 15, 2025

Amazon EVS released in multiple AWS Regions

Amazon EVS was released in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central) and Europe (Paris) Regions.

November 6, 2025

Amazon EVS released in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Europe (London) Regions

Amazon EVS was released in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Europe (London) Regions.

September 30, 2025

Amazon EVS supports HCX migration over the public internet

Amazon EVS now allows you to securely migrate and stretch your layer 2 networks from your on-premises data centers to Amazon EVS environments over the public internet.

September 18, 2025

Updated AmazonEVSServiceRolePolicy

Amazon EVS has updated the managed policy AmazonEVSServiceRolePolicy to add comprehensive resource management capabilities including EC2 instance management, EBS volume operations, and AWS Secrets Manager integration. For information, see Amazon EVS updates to AWS managed policies.

August 14, 2025

Updated AmazonEVSServiceRolePolicy

Updated the AWS managed policy AmazonEVSServiceRolePolicy.

August 4, 2025

Released the environment count per AWS account quota

Amazon EVS released environment count per AWS account quota.

The environment count per AWS account quota represents the maximum number of Amazon EVS environments that can be created in a given account and Region.

July 8, 2025

Amazon EVS released in the Europe (Ireland) Region

Amazon EVS was released in the Europe (Ireland) Region.

June 18, 2025

Released AmazonEVSServiceRolePolicy

The AWS managed policy AmazonEVSServiceRolePolicy was released.

June 9, 2025

Initial User Guide release

The Amazon Elastic VMware Service User Guide was released.

The Amazon EVS User Guide describes all Amazon EVS concepts and provides instructions on using the various features with both the console and the command line interface.

June 9, 2025