AWS for VMware

Choice and flexibility for your VMware-based workloads

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Why AWS for your VMware-based workloads?

AWS meets you where you are in your cloud journey, offering the most comprehensive migration and modernization pathways for your VMware-based workloads. AWS is the destination for future-proofing your VMware-based applications. With purpose-built tools, specialized migration programs, and modern infrastructure, you can confidently meet your goals for cost, speed, and innovation.

Migration and modernization pathways to AWS

Migration is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Whether you need to migrate, optimize, or modernize your workloads, AWS offers services to help you meet your goals and move your workloads at your own pace.

Relocate your workloads to Amazon Elastic VMware Service

Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is the fastest path to migrate and operate VMware workloads on AWS. Get the scale, resilience, and performance of AWS together with familiar VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) software and tools. Choose from self-managed or managed options to meet your business needs for control and customization of your VMware architecture. Embrace AWS native and managed services for analytics, storage, databases, serverless compute, generative AI, and more to drive business agility, innovation, and transformation.

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Rapidly lift-and-shift your workloads to Amazon EC2

Rapidly rehost your VMware Virtual Machines (VMs) to Amazon EC2. Reduce infrastructure costs, scale efficiently, and tap into the performance and resiliency of AWS with minimal changes to your applications. With purpose-built migration services such as Amazon Q Developer or AWS Application Migration Service, you can automate undifferentiated migration tasks and expedite your cloud journey with minimal business disruption.

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Transform your workloads on AWS with modernization services

AWS offers multiple pathways to optimize, modernize, and transform your workloads. Move from self-managed container platforms to managed services such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), ensuring reliable deployments that adapt seamlessly to business demands. You can also replatform to managed services such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for databases, Amazon FSx for file storage, and Amazon Workspaces for desktop infrastructure, allowing your to focus on strategic IT and business initiatives. If you’re looking to transform your applications to the cloud and take full advantage of cloud-native features, you can refactor applications to serverless with AWS Lambda.

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Extend AWS infrastructure on-premises with AWS Outposts

AWS Outposts allows you to run AWS infrastructure and VMware workloads on-premises, meeting your data residency needs. Access a consistent operational experience across your on-premises and cloud environments, allowing seamless integration and workload portability between the two environments.

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Expand your migration strategy with AWS Partner offerings

Consider AWS Partner offerings such as Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) or Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS (NC2 on AWS) for VMware-based workloads, both available on AWS Marketplace. ROSA helps you have a fully-managed application platform on AWS infrastructure based on Red Hat solutions while NC2 on AWS enables you to run a self-managed hypervisor on top of Amazon EC2 infrastructure.

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How AWS can help you in your cloud journey

Assessments and migration programs

AWS offers comprehensive migration programs to help your get started on your cloud journey. Start with a no-cost Optimization and Licensing Assessment (OLA) to build a build a data-driven business case for migrating to AWS. Get recommendations to reduce your costs on compute, storage, and licensing to run and operate your workloads, even helping you realize cost savings before you start to migrate to the cloud. You can also speed up your migration with the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP). Recently expanded for VMware-based workloads, you can gain access to tools, frameworks, resources, and training specifically tailored for your migration to AWS.

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Purpose-built migration services and tools

Meet your migration goals after using innovative AWS services. Use Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for VMware to simplify and automate your VMware transformation tasks. Migrate applications from any source infrastructure with AWS Application Migration service, automatically converting your servers to AWS to expedite migrations. Get a guided experience across your migration and modernization journey with AWS Migration Hub.

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Expert migration support

You have many options and resources to access support throughout your migration. Leverage additional incentives and accelerate your cloud migration journey with AWS Partners. Our Migration Competency Partners bring proven expertise and experience. From consulting and advisory services, development services for applications and infrastructure, and ongoing managed services, our partners help you focus on differentiated initiatives.

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AWS Training and Certification

Extend your VMware skills to AWS as your teams gain cloud expertise for long-term success. Through AWS Training and Certification, your teams have access to customized courses to help you at every stage of your modernization. From in-person AWS Migration Essentials courses to digital offerings such as the on-demand "Migrating VMware Workloads to AWS" course, your team is equipped with specialized training and classes.

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Benefits

Accelerate any VMware migration and modernization project

Choose the migration and modernization approach that aligns with the unique needs of your workloads and business.

Seamlessly transition to the cloud with migration programs, services, and training

Seamlessly transition your VMware environments to the cloud through specialized migration programs, services, partners, and training, to extend your existing investments and VMware expertise while meeting your migration, cost-optimization, talent, and transformation goals.

Protect your business from disruption

Protect your business from disruptions with the most secure, reliable, and extensive cloud infrastructure, improving scalability and resilience while transitioning and operating your VMware-based workloads.

Unlock innovation and transform your business

Unlock innovation by transforming your VMware workloads with more than 200 AWS services, including managed databases, analytics, serverless and containers, and generative AI, enabling you to build next-generation customer experiences, accelerate growth, and drive operational excellence.

Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for VMware migration and modernization

Amazon Q Developer now offers (in preview) new capabilities for migration and modernization of VMware workloads.

Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities simplifiy and accelerate the migration and modernization of VMware workloads to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Amazon Q Developer transformation agents simplify and automate VMware transformation tasks including on-premises application data discovery, wave planning, network translation and deployment, and orchestration of the overall migration process.

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