VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware Cloud on AWS is a jointly engineered service by VMware and Amazon Web Services that delivers a fully integrated hybrid cloud platform. It allows organizations to run VMware vSphere-based workloads natively on AWS infrastructure, providing a consistent operational experience across on-premises and cloud environments. The service includes VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and vCenter Server, all running on dedicated, elastic, bare-metal AWS infrastructure.
Developers and IT teams should use VMware Cloud on AWS when they need to extend or migrate VMware-based data centers to the cloud without re-architecting applications, enabling hybrid cloud strategies with minimal disruption. It's ideal for disaster recovery, data center extension, application modernization, and cloud migration projects where consistency in VMware tools and skills is critical. Specific use cases include leveraging AWS services alongside VMware workloads and scaling infrastructure elastically while maintaining operational familiarity.