Amazon EVS pricing
Overview
Take advantage of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) license portability to run VMware-based workloads on AWS within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Deploy and use your VCF licenses purchased from VMware by Broadcom or qualified VCF resellers on Amazon EVS.
Amazon EVS pricing is built around three core dimensions and two optional add-ons:
Core pricing dimensions:
- Amazon EC2 Instances - Billed at standard rates, with the option to reduce your costs through reservations and savings plans
- VPC Route Server Endpoints - Each environment requires a pair of endpoints, billed at a 73% discount compared to standard VPC Route Server Endpoint pricing
- Amazon EVS Control Plane - (also referred to as Amazon EVS on the AWS Pricing calculator) Billed hourly, per instance
Optional pricing dimensions (add-ons)
- Amazon FSxN for NetApp ONTAP - pay-as-you-go storage with no minimum fees, billed based on your provisioned storage, throughput, IOPS, and backup usage. For full pricing details, see the Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP pricing page.
- Windows Server Licensing - billed hourly if you choose to use it
You only pay for the AWS resources you use, as you use them—no minimum fees or upfront commitments required.
Pricing Examples
Understanding your total cost starts with seeing how each pricing dimension adds up. The examples below break down monthly estimates for common deployment configurations.
Example 1: On-demand model (Purchasing on-demand EC2 instances from AWS)
To help you understand Amazon EVS pricing, let's start with a straightforward deployment using on-demand pricing.
You created an Amazon EVS environment in US East (Ohio) with four i4i.metal dedicated instances and two VPC Route Server Endpoints to dynamically program private routes to the route table. See the pricing example below for a monthly estimate (730 hours).
| Region | Pricing dimension | Quantity | Hours used | Standard price | Discounted price | Charge for the asset
(quantity x hours used x price) |
| US East (Ohio) |
i4i.metal Instance |
4 | 730 |
$10.982 per instance-hour |
- |
$32,067.44 |
| EVS Usage (EVS Control Plane) | 4 | 730 | $0.92 per instance-hour | - | $2,686.40 | |
| Route Server | 2 | 730 | $0.75 per endpoint-hour | $0.2025 per endpoint-hour | $295.67 | |
| Total | $35,049.51 | |||||
With all pricing dimensions added up, your estimated monthly cost for this on-demand configuration is $35,049.51.
Example 2: Three-year model (Purchase Three-year Instance Savings Plan (ISP) - No upfront for EC2 instances from AWS)
| Region | Pricing dimension | Quantity | Hours used | Standard price | Discounted price | Charge for the asset
(quantity x hours used x price) |
| US East (Ohio) | i4i.metal Instance | 4 | 730 | $5.08 per instance-hour (3-year ISP, no upfront) |
- |
$14,833.60 |
| EVS Usage (EVS Control Plane) | 4 | 730 | $0.92 per instance-hour | - | $2,686.40 | |
| Route Server | 2 | 730 | $0.75 per endpoint-hour | $0.2025 per endpoint-hour | $295.67 | |
| Total | $17,815.67 | |||||
With all pricing dimensions combined, your estimated monthly cost for this three-year savings plan is $17.815.67.
Example 3: Additional secondary storage with deployment in two Regions (Three-Year ISP, No Upfront)
You created an Amazon EVS environment in Europe (Ireland), with four i4i.metal dedicated instances on 3-Yr Instance Savings Plan (ISP), attached an additional 10 TB of secondary Amazon FSx on NetApp ONTAP storage, and two VPC Route Server Endpoints to dynamically program private routes to the route table.
You also created a second identical Amazon EVS environment in Europe (Paris) for disaster recovery purposes with four i4i.metal dedicated instances on 3-Yr Instance Savings Plan (ISP), attached an additional 10 TB of secondary FSXn on NetApp ONTAP storage, and two VPC Route Server Endpoints. See the pricing example below for a monthly estimate (730 hours).
| Region | Pricing dimension | Quantity | Hours used | Standard price | Discounted price | Charge for the asset
(quantity x hours used x price) |
| Europe (Ireland) | i4i.metal | 4 | 730 | $5.951 per instance-hour (3-year ISP, no upfront) |
- |
$17,376.92 |
| EVS Usage (EVS Control Plane) | 4 | 730 | $1.01 per instance-hour | - | $2,949.20 | |
| Route Server | 730 | $0.75 per endpoint-hour | $0.2025 per endpoint-hour | $315.33 | ||
| Amazon FSx on NetApp ONTAP | See breakdown on next table | $1,072.64 | ||||
| Europe (Paris) | i4i.metal | 4 | 730 | $5.879 per instance-hour (3-year ISP, no upfront) |
- |
$17,166.68 |
| EVS Usage (EVS Control Plane) | 4 | 730 | $1.10 per instance-hour | - | $3,124.40 | |
| Route Server | 2 | 730 | $0.75 per endpoint-hour | $0.2025 per endpoint-hour | $295.67 | |
| Amazon FSx on NetApp ONTAP | See breakdown on next table | $1,072.64 | ||||
| Total | $43,373.48 | |||||
| Usage for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for is calculated as follows: | |
|---|---|
| Component | Cost |
| 512 Mbps throughput, IOPS, and request charges | $368.64 |
| SSD storage charges (100% SSD, 45% compression/deduplication) | $704.00 |
| Total per region | $1,072.64 |
With all pricing dimensions combined across both regions, your estimated monthly cost for this two-region configuration with secondary storage is $43,373.48.
Example 4: Purchasing Amazon EVS with Windows Server Licensing (Three-Year, No Upfront)
Amazon EVS gives you the flexibility to license Microsoft Windows Server directly through AWS for your VMs. This is ideal when modernizing to Windows Server 2022 or 2025 as part of your migration.
You created an Amazon EVS environment in Asia Pacific (Tokyo), with four i4i.metal dedicated instances on three-year Instance Savings Plan (ISP), and two VPC Route Server Endpoints to dynamically program private routes to the route table.
You also have 250 VMs running Microsoft Windows Server in your data center:
- 100 VMs are running Windows Server 2016 and 2019 with existing license portability rights to that you want to carry to Amazon EVS. You bring your own licenses across the four i4i.metal instances.
- 150 VMs have Windows Server license portability restrictions. These are the VMs you want to entitle through Amazon EVS. These VMs to license consume a total of 384 vCPUs in aggregate (e.g. in combinations of 1, 2, 4 and 8 vCPUs per Virtual Machines
See the monthly estimate below (730 hours).
| Region | Pricing dimension | Quantity | Hours used | Standard price | Discounted price | Charge for the asset
(quantity x hours used x price) |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | i4i.metal | 4 | 730 | $5.951 per instance-hour (3-year ISP, no upfront) |
- |
$16,316.96 |
| EVS Usage (EVS Control Plane) | 4 | 730 | $1.01 per instance-hour | - | $3,153.60 | |
| Route Server | 2 | 730 | $0.75 per endpoint-hour | $0.2025 per endpoint-hour | $406.00 | |
| Flat-rate, not region-dependent | Amazon EVS
Windows Server Licensing |
384 vCPU | 730 | $0.046 per vCPU-hour | - | $20,937.00 |
| Total | $40,813.56 | |||||
Note: The EVS Window Server Licensing rate of $0.046 is an on-demand, per vCPU-hour flat rate that does not change per region.
With all pricing dimensions combined across both regions, your estimated monthly cost with Windows Server licensing is $40,813.56.
Example 5: Purchase Amazon EVS “pilot light” i4i.metal environment with Windows Server Licensing (EC2 on-demand), followed by i7i.metal-24xl expansion (EC2 on-demand)
Amazon EVS gives you the flexibility to start small and migrate your VMs to the AWS Cloud at your own pace, perhaps starting with your most urgent applications or a few to test out the service first and build out your operational procedures and CI/CD workflows in the Cloud, then expand from there, perhaps even using a different host type, according to your different core count, vCPU, memory or storage needs.
You created an Amazon EVS environment in Europe (Milan), with four i4i.metal instances on-demand, and two VPC Route Server Endpoints to dynamically program private routes to the route table. This is your “pilot light” environment, to which you migrated 250 Windows Server VMs for which you had Windows Server VM renewal date deadlines, consuming 1,000 vCPUs in aggregate.
A few months later, after the deployment went well, you want to deploy another three i7i.metal-24xl hosts on-demand in the environment, to port your remaining Linux-based VMs to Amazon EVS and exit your on-premises data center.
Initial “pilot light” monthly cost:
| Region | Pricing dimension | Quantity | Hours used | Standard price | Discounted price | Charge for the asset
(quantity x hours used x price) |
| Europe (Milan) | i4i.metal | 4 | 730 | $12.742 per instance-hour (on-demand) |
- |
$37,206.64 |
| EVS Usage (EVS Control Plane) | 4 | 730 | $1.07 per instance-hour | - | $3,124.40 | |
| Route Server | 2 | 730 | $0.83 per endpoint-hour | $0.224 per endpoint-hour | $3,124.40 | |
| Flat-rate, not region-dependent | Amazon EVS
Windows Server Licensing |
1,000 vCPU | 730 | $0.046 per vCPU-hour | - | $33,580 |
| Total | $74,238.23 | |||||
Monthly cost after EVS environment expansion with i7i.metal-24xl (in total)
| Region | Pricing dimension | Quantity | Hours used | Standard price | Discounted price | Charge for the asset
(quantity x hours used x price) |
| Europe (Milan) | i4i.metal | 4 | 730 | $12.742 per instance-hour (on-demand) |
- |
$37,206.64 |
| i7i.metal-24xl | 3 | 730 | $10.513 per instance-hour (on-demand) | - | $23,022.38 | |
| EVS Usage (EVS Control Plane) | 7 | 730 | $1.07 per instance-hour | - | $5,467.70 | |
| Route Server | 2 | 730 | $0.83 per endpoint-hour | $0.224 per endpoint-hour | $327.17 | |
| Flat-rate, not region-dependent | Amazon EVS
Windows Server Licensing |
1,000 vCPU | 730 | $0.046 per vCPU-hour | - | $33,580.00 |
| Total | $99,603.89 | |||||
Note: The Amazon EVS Control Plane usage rate is independent of the instance type.
Example 6: Region expansion with Amazon EVS, followed by data center migration (Three-year ISP, No Upfront)
Amazon EVS supports phased deployment strategies, such as entering a new market in a region where AWS has coverage without requiring a data center footprint, then later migrating home-market workloads to the cloud to exit costly data center leases and avoid capital expenditure on your balance sheet.
This example shows a two-phase approach using i7i.metal-24xl instances.
Phase 1: An Amazon EVS environment in Asia Pacific (Singapore) with four i7i.metal-24xl instances (3-year ISP, no upfront) and two VPC Route Server Endpoints to enter the Southeast Asian market.
Phase 2: A few months later, a second Amazon EVS environment in Europe (London) with sixteen i7i.metal-24xl instances (3-year ISP, no upfront) and two VPC Route Server Endpoints to exit the UK data center lease entirely.
See the monthly estimates below (730 hours).
Initial Southeast Asia new market entry expansion cost:
| REGION | Pricing dimension | Quantity | Hours used | Standard price | Discounted price | Charge for the asset
(quantity x hours used x price) |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | i7i.metal-24xl | 4 | 730 | $5.03 per instance-hour (3-year ISP, no upfront) | - | $14,686.14 |
| EVS Usage (EVS Control Plane) | 4 | 730 | $1.10 per instance-hour | - | $3,212.00 | |
| Route Server | 2 | 730 | $0.98 per endpoint-hour | $0.265 per endpoint-hour | $386.33 | |
| Total | $18,284.47 | |||||
Monthly cost after UK home market Cloud migration (in total):
| REGION | Pricing dimension | Quantity | Hours used | Standard price | Discounted price | Charge for the asset
(quantity x hours used x price) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | i7i.metal-24xl | 4 | 730 | $5.03 per instance-hour (3-year ISP, no upfront) | - | $14,686.14 |
| EVS Usage (EVS Control Plane) | 4 | 730 | $1.10 per instance-hour | - | $3,212.00 | |
| Route Server | 2 | 730 | $0.98 per endpoint-hour | $0.265 per endpoint-hour | $386.33 | |
| Europe (London) | i7i.metal-24xl | 16 | 730 | $4.85 per instance-hour (3-year ISP, no upfront) | - | $56,646.83 |
| EVS Usage (EVS Control Plane) | 16 | 730 | $1.07 per instance-hour | - | $12,497.60 | |
| Route Server | 2 | 730 | $0.83 per endpoint-hour | $0.224 per endpoint-hour | $327.17 | |
| Total | $87,756.07 | |||||
Note: The Amazon EVS Control Plane usage rate is independent of the instance type.
