AWS现已全面推出Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)，该服务允许用户在Amazon VPC内直接运行VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)环境。此举旨在简化企业将现有VMware工作负载迁移至云端的流程，无需进行大规模的应用重构或改变现有操作实践。通过EVS，用户可以利用AWS的规模、可靠性和丰富的服务，同时继续使用熟悉的VMware技术和工具。该服务提供简化的部署流程，最快可在数小时内完成功能齐全的VCF环境部署，并支持与AWS其他服务（如Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP）的集成，为客户提供了更高的灵活性和效率。

⭐ Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) 现已全面可用，允许用户直接在Amazon VPC中运行VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 环境，从而简化了将VMware工作负载迁移到AWS的过程。

🚀 该服务支持在AWS EC2裸金属实例上运行VCF，并能与Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP等AWS服务无缝集成，使企业能够在不改变现有应用或操作实践的情况下，利用AWS的规模和可靠性。

⚙️ Amazon EVS提供了一个简化的、引导式的部署工作流程，用户可以在数小时内部署功能齐全的VCF环境，减少了传统部署中可能出现的复杂性和配置错误。

🔗 用户可以获得对VCF环境的完全控制权，包括完全的root访问权限，并支持集成第三方解决方案，如外部存储（Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Pure Cloud Block Store）和备份解决方案（Veeam Backup and Replication）。

💡 成功部署EVS环境需要满足一系列先决条件，包括配置AWS IAM权限、设置Amazon VPC、准备VMware Cloud Foundation许可证密钥，以及确保足够的Amazon EC2容量预留（至少需要四台i4i.metal实例，共计256个核心）。

<section class="blog-post-content lb-rtxt"><table id="amazon-polly-audio-table"><tbody><tr><td id="amazon-polly-audio-tab"><p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Today, we’re announcing the general availability of <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/evs/&quot;&gt;Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)</a>, a new AWS service that lets you run <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vmware-cloud-foundation&quot;&gt;VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)</a> environments directly within your <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/&quot;&gt;Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)</a>. With Amazon EVS, you can deploy fully functional VCF environments in just hours using a guided workflow, while running your VMware workloads on qualified <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/&quot;&gt;Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)</a> bare metal instances and seamlessly integrating with AWS services such as <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/netapp-ontap/&quot;&gt;Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP</a>.</p><p>Many organizations running VMware workloads on premises want to move to the cloud to benefit from improved scalability, reliability, and access to cloud services, but migrating these workloads often requires substantial changes to applications and infrastructure configurations. Amazon EVS lets customers continue using their existing VMware expertise and tools without having to re-architect applications or change established practices, thereby simplifying the migration process while providing access to AWS’s scale, reliability, and broad set of services.</p><p>With Amazon EVS, you can run VMware workloads directly in your Amazon VPC. This gives you full control over your environments while being on AWS infrastructure. You can extend your on-premises networks and migrate workloads without changing IP addresses or operational runbooks, reducing complexity and risk.</p><p><strong>Key capabilities and features</strong></p><p>Amazon EVS delivers a comprehensive set of capabilities designed to streamline your VMware workload migration and management experience. The service enables seamless workload migration without the need for replatforming or changing hypervisors, which means you can maintain your existing infrastructure investments while moving to AWS. Through an intuitive, guided workflow on the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/console/&quot;&gt;AWS Management Console</a>, you can efficiently provision and configure your EVS environments, significantly reducing the complexity to migrate your workloads to AWS.</p><p>With Amazon EVS, you can deploy a fully functional VCF environment running on AWS in a few hours. This process eliminates many of the manual steps and potential configuration errors that often occur during traditional deployments. Furthermore, with Amazon EVS you can optimize your virtualization stack on AWS. Given the VCF environment runs inside your VPC, you have full root access to the environment and the associated management appliances. You also have the ability to integrate third-party solutions, from external storage such as <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/netapp-ontap/&quot;&gt;Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP</a> or <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-rbnq55ns7vwdc&quot;&gt;Pure Cloud Block Store</a> or backup solutions such as <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-st2b6lmnxdehm&quot;&gt;Veeam Backup and Replication</a>.</p><p>The service also gives you the ability to self-manage or work with AWS Partners to build, manage, and operate your environments. This provides you with flexibility to match your approach with your overall goals.</p><p><strong>Setting up a new VCF environment</strong></p><p>Organizations can streamline their setup process by ensuring they have all the necessary pre-requisites in place ahead of creating a new VCF environment. These prerequisites include having an active AWS account, configuring the appropriate <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/iam/&quot;&gt;AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)</a> permissions, and setting up a Amazon VPC with sufficient CIDR space and two Route Server endpoints, with each endpoint having its own peer. Additionally, customers will need to have their VMware Cloud Foundation license keys ready, secure Amazon EC2 capacity reservations specifically for i4i.metal instances, and prepare their VLAN subnet information planning.</p><p>To help ensure a smooth deployment process, we’ve provided a <strong>Getting started hub</strong>, which you can access from the EVS homepage as well as a comprehensive guide in our <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/evs/latest/userguide/setting-up.html&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;. By following these preparation steps, you can avoid potential setup delays and ensure a successful environment creation.</p><p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-97935" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2025/07/08/evs-01-1024x502.png&quot; alt="Screenshots of EVS onboarding" width="1024" height="502" /></p><p>Let’s walk through the process of setting up a new VCF environment using Amazon EVS.</p><p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-97940" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2025/07/08/evs-create-01-1024x511.png&quot; alt="Screenshots of EVS onboarding" width="1024" height="511" /></p><p>You will need to provide your Site ID, which is allocated by Broadcom when purchasing VCF licenses, along with your license keys. To ensure a successful initial deployment, you should verify you have sufficient licensing coverage for a minimum of 256 cores. This translates to at least four i4i.metal instances, with each instance providing 64 physical cores.</p><p>This licensing requirement helps you maintain optimal performance and ensures your environment meets the necessary infrastructure specifications. By confirming these requirements upfront, you can avoid potential deployment delays and ensure a smooth setup process.</p><p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-97941" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2025/07/08/evs-create-02-1024x501.png&quot; alt="Screenshots of EVS onboarding" width="1024" height="501" /></p><p>Once you have provided all the required details, you will be prompted to specify your host details. These are the underlying Amazon EC2 instances that your VCF environment will get deployed in.</p><p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-97942" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2025/07/08/evs-create-03-1024x505.png&quot; alt="Screenshots of EVS onboarding" width="1024" height="505" /></p><p>Once you have filled out details for each of your host instances, you will need to configure your networking and management appliance DNS details. For further information on how to create a new VCF environment on Amazon EVS, follow the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/evs/latest/userguide/what-is-evs.html&quot;&gt;documentation here</a>.</p><p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-97943" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2025/07/08/evs-create-04-1024x508.png&quot; alt="Screenshots of EVS onboarding" width="1024" height="508" /></p><p>After you have created your VCF environment, you will be able to look over all of the host and configuration details through the AWS Console.</p><p><strong class="c6">Additional things to know</strong></p><p>Amazon EVS currently supports VCF version 5.2.1 and runs on i4i.metal instances. Future releases will expand VCF versions, licensing options, and more instance type support to provide even more flexibility for your deployments.</p><p>Amazon EVS provides flexible storage options. Your Amazon EVS local Instance storage is powered by VMware’s vSAN solution, which pools local disks across multiple ESXi hosts into a single distributed datastore. To scale your storage, you can leverage external Network File System (NFS) or iSCSI-based storage solutions. For example, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is particularly well-suited for use as an NFS datastore or shared block storage over iSCSI.</p><p>Additionally, Amazon EVS makes connecting your on-premises environments to AWS simple. You can connect from on-premises vSphere environment into Amazon EVS using a Direct Connect connection or a VPN that terminates into a transit gateway. Amazon EVS also manages the underlying connectivity from your VLAN subnets into your VMs.</p><p>AWS provides comprehensive support for all AWS services deployed by Amazon EVS, handling direct customer support while engaging with Broadcom for advanced support needs. Customers must maintain <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/business/&quot;&gt;AWS Business Support</a> on accounts running the service.</p><p><strong>Availability and pricing</strong></p><p>Amazon EVS is now generally available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glossary/latest/reference/glos-chap.html#region&quot;&gt;AWS Regions</a>, with additional Regions coming soon. Pricing is based on the Amazon EC2 instances and AWS resources you use, with no minimum fees or upfront commitments.</p><p>To learn more, visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/evs&quot;&gt;Amazon EVS product page</a>.</p></section><aside id="Comments" class="blog-comments"><div data-lb-comp="aws-blog:cosmic-comments" data-env="prod" data-content-id="a0db22c8-1baf-46b5-a849-1f20dc9fe5d0" data-title="Introducing Amazon Elastic VMware Service for running VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS" data-url="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-elastic-vmware-service-for-running-vmware-cloud-foundation-on-aws/&quot;&gt;&lt;p data-failed-message="Comments cannot be loaded… Please refresh and try again.">Loading comments…</p></div></aside>