VMware Tanzu on AWS

VMware Tanzu enables developers to achieve security, agility, governance, and innovation without compromising one for another. It simplifies application development and delivery processes, enabling developers to focus on coding. Tanzu integrates app and platform security continuously through automation, golden paths, and a shift-left approach, automating platform operations for consistent management. It encourages developers to streamline and secure the path to production for continuous value delivery.

VMware Tanzu Platform accelerates application delivery by simplifying processes and tools for developers and IT operations. Built for Platform Engineers, loved by Developers, and trusted by Enterprises, Tanzu Platform helps organizations deliver applications faster.

•  App-to-platform visibility with AI-powered insights:  Tanzu Platform provides a common control plane and data model as a centralized hub and dashboard for any cloud, platform, tool or persona with contextual app visibility.

•  One-line commands to build, bind, deploy, and scale: Simplify the developer experience with an easy-to-use set of golden commands to build, bind, deploy and scale apps. Get built-in security with app accelerators and automated container builds.

• Automation and Security: secure workloads and infrastructure with the ‘Four R’s’ methodology: Replicate, Repave, Repair, and Rotate. Auto-replicate app resources across multiple availability targets. Repave every server and application in the datacenter every few hours from a known good state. Repair vulnerable operating systems and application stacks consistently within hours of patch availability. Rotate data center credentials every few minutes or hours to maximize security.

• Your choice of app runtimes: Tanzu Platform offers runtimes for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. Choose an opinionated runtime with streamlined workflows, automation and self-service capabilities or a flexible container orchestrator with portability across environments that offers a wide range of tools and resources.

• Integrated functionality for Spring apps: Ensure secure by default posture with enterprise-ready, managed Spring Cloud Services and configurations. Enable SRE/DevOps best practices and observability with Spring-specific instrumentation.

• Self-service databases and messaging: Store, process and query data quickly and at scale. Capture data sets of all types, make them available to every workload, and ensure they’re immediately available for use. Tanzu Platform entitles you to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey and RabbitMQ.

• Curation of trusted open source software: Craft a private catalog of custom-configured, pre-packaged open source application components that are customized to enterprise requirements, continuously maintained, and privately delivered.

• Powerful ecosystem of brokered services: Leverage your favorite tools across OSS and commercial vendors with service brokers for AWS. Easily access partner services like GitLab, Apigee and New Relic.

Liberty Mutual, an American diversified global insurer, wanted to enter the accident and health insurance market in Australia, estimated at $240M. The company only had 6 months to execute its plan before the renewal system would start. Liberty Mutual decided to proceed with VMware Tanzu and AWS for the technological foundation and VMware Tanzu Labs for transforming the development practices. Leveraging agile and test-driven development, Liberty Mutual went from an annual release cycle to 16 releases in 5 months, with the referrals being processed 300% faster and the conversion rate reaching 40% vs 20%, compared to industry standards. Overall, Liberty Mutual experienced a 4x increase in release velocity, 60% reduction in infrastructure costs, and supports 1500 developers with just 8 platform operators.

US Air Force, the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces, looked to modernize the delivery process and procurement of technology, which can take years for federal agencies. To combat that, US Air Force established the project Kessel Run, which partners with VMware Tanzu to learn best practices around extreme programming and user-centered design, and using VMware Tanzu Application Service and Amazon Web Services GovCloud for non-classified workloads. The process improvements and technology allowed US Air Force to set up a streamlined scheduling system for aircraft refueling in less than 120 days for $1.5m, immediately resulting in millions of dollars of savings.

VMware Tanzu connects with a number of AWS services, so IT teams can streamline the consumption of resources on the cloud.