VMware Cloud on AWS
Helping you accelerate your hybrid cloud journey in a fast, cost-effective manner and with minimal risk.
Why consider VMware Cloud on AWS?
Deploying VMware Cloud on AWS requires expert skills and experience to architect, design and implement to ensure return on investment and enable your teams focus on delivering value to your end users. In fact according to Harvard Business Review some 37% of organisations say they’re not getting what they expected from their cloud initiatives.
Our VMware Cloud on AWS experts can help you address some of your biggest challenges :
- Reduce the time, cost and risk of migrating workloads to the public cloud
- Save on total cost of ownership compared to traditional, distributed on-premises infrastructure.
- Provide ongoing guidance no matter where you are in your VMware Cloud on AWS adoption journey.
Why not take a look at our latest infographic which highlight the Strategic Technology Trends in 2022.
52%
Reduction in Costs1
27%
Reduction in overall Spend per user2
90%
Reduction in Capacity Planning & Procurement3
57%
Reduction in Unplanned Downtime4
37%
Decrease in Time to Market5
VMware and AWS offer organisations a faster, easier, and more cost effective path to the hybrid cloud while allowing customers to modernise applications with AWS services. IDC conducted an in-depth study to evaluate the business values and benefits for organizations using VMware Cloud on AWS.
IDC found that customers reduced their IT infrastructure costs by 40%, reduced their total cost of operations by 43% and will realise an estimated 479% ROI over five years.
Key capabilities of VMware Cloud on AWS
The only hybrid cloud solution that allows you to modernise, protect and scale vSphere-based applications leveraging AWS, the world’s leading public cloud.
Enterprise-grade capabilities
- Leverage predictable, high-performance compute, storage and networking delivered by vSphere, vSAN and NSX running on next-gen Nitro system-based Amazon EC2 elastic, bare-metal infrastructure.
- Ensure application uptime through capabilities built directly in the service such as vSphere HA, DRS, auto host remediation, and Stretched Clusters for zero-RPO infrastructure availability.
- Prevent the lateral spread of threats with dynamic policy-driven NSX micro-segmentation and distributed firewalls.
Simple and consistent operations
- Reduce your operational overhead and achieve your cloud strategy faster, whether it is migration, extension or protection, by leveraging existing skills, tools, processes and familiar VMware technologies.
- Get a single inventory view of both on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS resources using vCenter Server technology.
- Leverage the in-product, unified support experience that brings together intelligent search, chat support, service request management, service health and community help, available at your fingertips.
Flexible Consumption
- Align costs to your business needs with flexible consumption options and investment protection.
- Consume on-demand hourly, or take advantage of one-year and three-year reserved models for deeper discounts.
- Get started rapidly and provision an entire VMware SDDC environment in 2 hours.
- Add or remove hosts in minutes or let Elastic DRS to do it automatically based on optimal utilisation.
Familiar and seamless
- Continue using your familiar VMware technologies - plus a broad range of third party technology solution providers that are validated to work with VMware Cloud on AWS.
- Leverage a single point of contact for all your support issues.
- Focus on your apps while VMware and its partners take care of infrastructure patches and upgrades.
- Empower your infrastructure teams to run the most resource-intensive apps with all the performance, availability and scale requirements they need, while your development teams focus on your business requirements.
- Leverage predictable, high-performance compute, storage and networking delivered by vSphere, vSAN and NSX running on next-gen Nitro system-based Amazon EC2 elastic, bare-metal infrastructure.
- Ensure application uptime through capabilities built directly in the service such as vSphere HA, DRS, auto host remediation, and Stretched Clusters for zero-RPO infrastructure availability.
- Prevent the lateral spread of threats with dynamic policy-driven NSX micro-segmentation and distributed firewalls.
- Reduce your operational overhead and achieve your cloud strategy faster, whether it is migration, extension or protection, by leveraging existing skills, tools, processes and familiar VMware technologies.
- Get a single inventory view of both on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS resources using vCenter Server technology.
- Leverage the in-product, unified support experience that brings together intelligent search, chat support, service request management, service health and community help, available at your fingertips.
- Align costs to your business needs with flexible consumption options and investment protection.
- Consume on-demand hourly, or take advantage of one-year and three-year reserved models for deeper discounts.
- Get started rapidly and provision an entire VMware SDDC environment in 2 hours.
- Add or remove hosts in minutes or let Elastic DRS to do it automatically based on optimal utilisation.
- Continue using your familiar VMware technologies - plus a broad range of third party technology solution providers that are validated to work with VMware Cloud on AWS.
- Leverage a single point of contact for all your support issues.
- Focus on your apps while VMware and its partners take care of infrastructure patches and upgrades.
- Empower your infrastructure teams to run the most resource-intensive apps with all the performance, availability and scale requirements they need, while your development teams focus on your business requirements.
Your cloud journey is unique- Insight can help you wherever you are
Our strategic step-by-step approach ensures a seamless and successful migration to VMware Cloud on AWS, through our cloud expertise and Insight led services.
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