VMware Cloud on Amazon AWS Announcement

VMware made announcements at AWS re:invent adding features to our VMware Cloud on AWS offering; VMware and AWS Expand Capabilities and Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS.

Expanding availability from the U.S. West (Oregon) region to also include the AWS U.S. East (N. Virginia) region

Faster Application Migration with Seamless Portability:

Live vMotion over L2VPN
AWS Direct Connect for migration traffic
Large-scale workload migration using VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (Preview)

Application Availability and Business Continuity for Mission-Critical Workloads:

Enterprise-grade DR as a Service with VMware Site RecoveryTM, add-on

Scale, Security, and Visibility for Mission-Critical Applications:

Multiple SDDCs per customer
Up to 10 clusters / SDDC
Improved Hybrid Operations including expanded single logical view and content management with native VM templates
Adding support for Wavefront® by VMware, a VMware Cloud Service that provides an open API platform supporting more than 80 integrations to collect time-series data from application metrics collectors such as for Java, Ruby, Python, and Go, to service metrics collectors for MySQL, Pivotal, Kubernetes, AWS, and more

Greater Partner Ecosystem for VMware Cloud on AWS

Pricing and Availability

Now offering 1-year and 3-year subscription options for VMware Cloud on AWS, in addition to the existing hourly on-demand pricing. Help customers lower their TCO by up to 50 percent compared to on-demand pricing
VMware’s Hybrid Loyalty Program provides discounts on the core service subscriptions to customers with on-premises vSphere, VMware NSX®, and/or VMware vSAN® licenses, which can further reduce the TCO by an additional 25 percent
VMware Site Recovery is available today as a separate add-on and is priced per protected VM with hourly metering. VMware vMotion, L2 network stretch, AWS Direct Connect, multi-cluster support, VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension support and AWS Direct Connect private connectivity to VMware Cloud on AWS are expected to be available in VMware’s Q4 FY2018 which ends on February 3, 2018. All other capabilities are available today. To view the latest status of features for VMware Cloud on AWS, visit: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws/features

http://www.vmware.com/cloud-services/vmware-cloud-aws.html

https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/

Latest Update from AWS re:Invent 2016:
VMware and AWS Together – VMware Cloud on AWS (ENT317)

You may have heard we made a big announcement with Amazon on October 13, 2016 to be able to run VMware on AWS (#VMWonAWS is trending on Twitter on 10/14).

Currently in Technology Preview, VMware Cloud on AWS will be a new solution that makes it easy for customers to run VMware workloads on the AWS Cloud. Fully managed by VMware it will include the SDDC platform: vSphere, VSAN and NSX running in AWS. AWS has data centers in 35 Availability Zones across 13 different locations around the world (with construction underway in five more).

VMware + AWS = Win

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Official Press Release: http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-newsfeed.VMware-and-AWS-Announce-New-Hybrid-Cloud-Service,-%E2%80%9CVMware-Cloud-on-AWS%E2%80%9D.3188645-manual.html

Overview Video: http://www.vmware.com/cloud-services/vmware-cloud-aws.html

VMware on AWS Demo Video: https://youtu.be/CUm9iRhQZJE

Availability
Available in mid-2017, VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS will be delivered, sold, and supported by VMware as an on-demand, elastically scalable service. Pricing will be made available closer to the general availability date.

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This service will include all the enterprise tools you’re familiar with including vSphere, ESXi, VSAN and NSX.

Select a cluster size and a SDDC environment is created for you in a very short time
VMware cloud will run on native ESXi (not nested ESXi) on bare metal AWS
Cloud containing vSphere ESXi hosts, VSAN and NSX on AWS
VMware manages and operates the infrastructure of the VMware Cloud on AWS.

Fully managed service, VMware will install, manage and maintain the underlying ESXi, VSAN, vCenter and NSX (patching or hardware failure remediation will be taken care of by VMware)
Customers will be able to use vCenter to perform administrative tasks but there will be some actions like patching that will provided by VMware
Available as a stand-alone deployment, as a Hybrid cloud deployment or as a cloud-to-cloud deployment
With hybrid and cloud-to-cloud deployments, vCenter enhanced linked-mode provides a single pane of glass
The entire roster of AWS compute, storage, database, analytics, mobile, and IoT services can be directly accessed from your applications. Because your VMware applications will be running in the same data centers as the AWS services, you’ll be able to benefit from fast, low-latency connectivity when you use these services to enhance or extend your applications. You’ll also be able to take advantage of AWS migration tools such as AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Import/Export Snowball, and AWS Storage Gateway.
NSX extends this single pane of glass by providing consistent network and security services between the various deployments. However, NSX is not a requirement!
With the ability to span networks and clouds, you can even vMotion from your existing on-premises vSphere environment to AWS! Imagine DRS across to AWS.
Elastic scaling would help to solve one of the toughest challenges an IT architect can face: capacity planning, benefit from the IT-at-scale mindset and services delivered by AWS
Auto-remediation can build upon DR solutions ensuring available host resources remain consistent during an ESXi host outage
Ability to retain similar levels of resources during maintenance. During maintenance operations, the cluster size is not reduced, workloads are not impacted by a loss of resources and continue to perform similarly as to normal operation hours.