AWS re:Invent 2018: Supercharge VMware Cloud on AWS Environments with Native AWS Services – CMP360
Andy Reedy, Aarthi Raju and Wen Yu from AWS
Being a long time VMware customer, I’m very interested in what VMware Cloud on AWS (VMConAWS) could offer. Its early days and I’m not sure what customer take-up has been so far but there is certainly industry buzz, attention and interested customers. Its VMware’s current big push to be seen as a cloud company. One of the criticisms levelled at VMConAWS is that its just a glorified colo, moving your current virtualisation layer from an on-prem or existing colo to another colo, this time hosted by AWS. AWS, however, isn’t just another colo!
One of the obvious big benefits with hosting your VMware workloads is being close to the rest of what AWS offers. This could be the hook to help you decide to use the service as VMConAWS comes with built-in integration with native AWS services. Are these integrations just a way to get you to use more AWS when you’re a VMware customer and in time shrink your VMware investments as you take advantage of more AWS native services? Time will tell but the integrations with native AWS services could be very useful if you’re wanting to migrate and host your VMware workloads in a new “colo”.
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