AWS expands Amazon EVS for faster VMware cloud migration
VMware cloud migration is gaining another path as Amazon Web Services Inc. expands the reach and capabilities of Amazon Elastic VMware Service. The service allows companies to run VMware Cloud Foundation directly within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud while retaining their existing VMware tools and operating practices.
A year after its general availability, Amazon EVS now spans 22 AWS Regions and supports VCF 9.0 and 9.1 on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud bare-metal infrastructure. Adoption is being driven by data center exits, disaster recovery requirements and limited access to new on-premises hardware, according to Andy Reedy (pictured), senior manager of EC2 product management at AWS.
“The number one use case we hear from customers is data center evacuation,” he said. “Almost weekly we get a call, ‘My data center contract is expiring in six months. I need to be out of the data center.’ We’ve seen the lift-and-shift VCF-to-VCF model being the fastest path to get out of a data center and to get into a cloud environment.”
Reedy spoke with theCUBE Research’s Christophe Bertrand and co-host Alison Kosik at VMware Explore, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Amazon EVS adoption, hybrid-cloud capacity and maintaining operational control during infrastructure modernization. (* Disclosure below.)
