VMware Cloud on AWS overview and operating model
Deepak Kumar and Punit Solanki, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
March 2024 (document history)
Notice
As of April 30, 2024, VMware Cloud on AWS is no longer resold by AWS or its channel partners. The service will continue to be available through Broadcom. We encourage you to reach out to your AWS representative for details.
This strategy explains the reasons for migrating to VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the steps that your organization can take to ensure that the transition is smooth and effective, and changes required in the operating model to support the new cloud environment. Your organization might encounter several challenges during the migration. Planning and following the right strategies can help you achieve the best business outcomes.
AWS provides a scalable, reliable, flexible, and cost-effective cloud environment for organizations that want to modernize their processes and systems in the cloud. VMware Cloud on AWS supports your VMware vSphere-based workloads in the AWS Cloud, and provides easy access to AWS services to help modernize your applications. It enables your company to adopt the cloud in a short amount of time, minimize risks, and manage complexity. The VMware Cloud on AWS environment is familiar, easy to use, and modernized with the latest technological innovations. VMware Cloud on AWS can also unlock diverse, additional services such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Route 53 that can assist in modernizing your application and improving its performance.
This strategy is for senior managers, CEOs, and operations managers who want to understand how to use VMware Cloud and its integration with AWS to improve their business outcomes and decision-making processes.
