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.
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 AWS Application Migration Service, you can automate undifferentiated migration tasks and expedite your cloud journey with minimal business disruption.
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.
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.
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.