AWS has launched the public preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), enabling customers to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) workloads directly within Amazon VPCs.
Announced initially at AWS re:Invent 2024, the public preview supports VCF version 5.2.1 on i4i.metal instances and allows VCF license portability for non-production workloads. Users can leverage Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and familiar VCF tools in a guided setup experience. Environments created now will seamlessly transition to general availability. The service is currently available in five Regions: N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Tokyo, and Frankfurt.
