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A year of expanding choice for VMware customers on AWS

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This article highlights AWS's one-year milestone for Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), showcasing expanded capabilities for running VMware workloads on AWS.

  • Support for VCF 9.0 and 9.1 with native installer control and automated deployment orchestrator
  • New i7i.metal-48xl instance with 96 cores, 1.5TB memory, and 45TB NVMe storage for demanding workloads
  • Expanded to 22 AWS Regions with maximum environment size increased from 16 to 32 hosts
  • Memory Tiering feature enables hosts to use NVMe storage as additional memory, doubling effective memory capacity
  • Flexible Windows Server licensing options with per-vCPU hour billing for portability-restricted licenses
  • NSX Federation support extends networking and security policies across on-premises and AWS environments
  • Disaster recovery capabilities using familiar VMware tools and processes

Amazon EVS continues delivering choice and flexibility for VMware customers migrating to AWS while preserving existing tools and operational workflows.



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