Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware are showcasing the continued innovation and customer value the companies are delivering together.
New capabilities in the jointly engineered VMware Cloud on AWS service and broad availability of VMware Cross-Cloud services on AWS Marketplace help customers accelerate moving VMware workloads to a more modern and secure infrastructure in AWS to support enterprise cloud transformation.
Whether it’s by choice or by compelling events like the COVID-19 pandemic, business leaders are looking for ways to speed up their digital transformation and thrive in this era of fast-moving disruption. That’s why VMware and AWS remain fully committed to meeting the needs of customers through the companies’ unique joint work.
New Capabilities Improve Flexibility, Performance and ROI
Research shows VMware Cloud on AWS customers can achieve 46% faster cloud migration and 57% reduction in TCO(1) . VMware Cloud on AWSSoftware-Defined Data Center software to AWS bare metal infrastructure to run enterprise workloads more securely at scale, across both virtual machines and containers. The service features built-in Kubernetes and optimized access to 200+ native AWS services including data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to deliver a pragmatic approach to app modernization. Built-in VMware NSX security capabilities help stop advanced, persistent threats that can move laterally within and across cloud and data center environments.
The latest advancements include:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) I4i instances for I/O-intensive Workloads: Powered by 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Ice Lake ), Amazon EC2 instances help deliver better workload support and delivery, lower TCO, and increased scalability and application performance. Compared to I3, the I4i instances provide nearly twice the number of physical cores, twice the memory, three times the storage capacity, and three times the network bandwidth. The I4i instances help minimize latency and maximize transactions per second (TPS) for certain workloads such as transactional and NoSQL databases that need fast access to datasets on local storage. Workloads such as real-time databases, data warehouses, and data analytics benefit from higher compute performance per TB of storage.
External, Flexible Cloud Storage Options: New external cloud storage options help customers optimize/lower the cost of cloud capacity, and flexibly scale and fine tune compute and storage independently as needs evolve, especially for data-demanding workloads such as databases, big data and analytics, EDA, and media processing.
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Integration Availability: VMware customers running on premises today. Customers can now use FSx for ONTAP as a simple and elastic datastore for VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to scale storage up or down independently from compute while paying only for the resources they need. Customers can also benefit from ONTAP’s enterprise data access, data management, and data efficiency capabilities to further simplify and cost-optimize their VMware Cloud on AWS deployments.
VMware Cloud Flex Storage Availability : A new VMware -managed and natively integrated cloud storage and data management solution that offers supplemental datastore-level access for VMware Cloud on AWS. With just a few clicks in the VMware Cloud Console, customers can scale their storage environment without adding hosts, and elastically adjust storage capacity up or down as needed for every application. Customers also benefit from a simple, pay-as-you-consume pricing model. Together with VMware vSAN, VMware Cloud Flex Storage offers flexibility and customer value in terms of resilience, performance, scale, and cost in the cloud.
Cost-Effective, Flexible Consumption Option : VMware Cloud Flex Compute represents a new cloud computing model that will help customers start faster with smaller units with VMware Cloud on AWS. Customers will be able to start running workloads in minutes using environments that are expected to be 97% smaller than the minimum required to support production workloads today. Customers will also be able to better meet the cost and performance requirements of enterprise applications by using smaller units containing vCPU, memory, storage, and network resources and adjusting as their capacity requirements change versus adding/removing full hosts. VMware Cloud Flex Compute is currently in preview.
Rapid Ransomware Recovery: VMware uniquely makes recovery from a ransomware attack faster, more predictable, and less prone to error with VMware Ransomware Recovery for VMware Cloud DR. This purpose-built ransomware recovery-as-a-service solution enables safe recovery designed to prevent re-infection of IT and line-of-business production workloads through its innovative use an isolated recovery environment on VMware Cloud on AWS. Guided recovery workflows allow customers to quickly identify recovery point candidates, validate restore points using embedded behavioral analysis, and recover data with minimal loss.
Continued Global Expansion: VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong ) region, bringing coverage of the service to 21 regions globally. This includes both AWS GovCloud (US West) and AWS GovCloud (US East) regions for which the service is FedRAMP Authorized to allow US government agencies and customers supporting the US government to migrate, manage, and operate sensitive workloads in the cloud.
Empowering Customers to Consume VMware Services in AWS Marketplace
VMware and AWS continue to make it easier for AWS customers to purchase and deploy VMware Cross-Cloud services to support AWS . Organizations can use their existing AWS EDP agreements to consume VMware Cross-Cloud Cloud services to modernize their mission-critical enterprise apps on AWS. Available services include VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Tanzu, VMware Carbon Black, CloudHealth , and VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (AVI Networks ) with more to come.
Mark Lohmeyer , SVP and GM, cloud infrastructure business group at VMware
VMware Cloud on AWS continues to deliver compelling new capabilities that help customers move quickly and non-disruptively to the cloud with compatibility and operational consistency across their existing vSphere-based deployments. And once workloads are running in VMware Cloud on AWS, the service can deliver significant ongoing savings by optimizing resource utilization while ensuring better workload availability, protecting against today’s complicated and dangerous lateral threats, and enabling the next-generation of modern applications.
Matt Garman , SVP, AWS sales and marketing at AWS
Customers want to accelerate cloud migrations with operational consistency and flexibility, reduce costs while scaling to meet global business demand, and modernize workloads and increase innovation with cloud-native services. Together with VMware , we are giving customers the fastest path to cloud migration and modernization for their enterprise vSphere workloads. We allow them to speed application innovation, simplify cloud operations, and further improve security by running on the AWS global infrastructure.
