VMware on AWS
- Available options:
- Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS): Allows you to run VMware Cloud Foundation directly in AWS while retaining your existing VMware tools.
- Rehosting on EC2: Lift-and-shift migration of VMware workloads to EC2 instances.
- Containerization: Conversion of VMware workloads to containers via Amazon ECS or EKS.
- Replatforming: Migration to AWS managed services (RDS, FSx, EFS).
- Refactoring: Complete modernization to microservices with Lambda or Fargate.
- Use case: VMware is best managed via EVS or guided migration, as EC2 alone does not offer the same native integration.