# Welcome
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Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is a service that you can use to deploy a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) software environment directly on EC2 bare metal instances within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

Workloads running on Amazon EVS are fully compatible with workloads running on any standard VMware vSphere environment. This means that you can migrate any VMware-based workload to Amazon EVS without workload modification.

This document was last published on August 28, 2026. 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon Elastic VMware Service. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query evs` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).