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          VMware Cloud on AWS requires significantly fewer resources to manage than our on-premises environment, so we can focus on more valuable activities

For a limited time, you can reduce the cost of vSphere-based workloads even further, with 20% off for i3en.metal hosts across VMware Cloud on AWS regions. And if you are a new VMware Cloud on AWS customer, get an up to 20% additional discount for your first 2/3 hosts

See the results in two minutes. Compare your cost for VMware Cloud on AWS to on-premises and hyperscaler native infrastructures. Approximately 80 percent of requested reports show lower TCO

Modernize your applications with Tanzu services for an easy path to enterprise-grade Kubernetes. Or use cloud-native constructs to enrich existing applications with the full range of native AWS services

Run business-critical apps on a familiar, feature-rich VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) that integrates vSphere, NSX and vSAN and is delivered as a cloud service on AWS

Reduce the time, cost and risk of migrating vSphere workloads to the public cloud using the power of vMotion and HCX. Migrate individual apps or entire data centers without any conversions or downtime

Save on total cost of ownership compared to traditional, distributed on-premises infrastructure thanks to efficient infrastructure, operations, resource utilization and on-demand consumption options

No retraining your staff, hiring scarce talent, refurbishing tools or revamping processes needed to benefit from the agility, scale and innovation of public cloud

Free up time and resources from mundane day-to-day operations to focus on IT activities that are material to the business

Deliver rapid time to value by spinning up an entire VMware SDDC in the AWS Cloud in under two hours. Then scale host capacity in minutes

Modernize vSphere workloads with Tanzu services- a portfolio of managed Kubernetes services and extend the value of enterprise applications with 200+ AWS services accessible over a high bandwidth, low latency network

Minimize disruption by extending established on-premises security, governance and operational policies while adding the cloud scale and security of AWS

Reduce your carbon footprint with energy-efficient, global AWS infrastructure powered by renewable energy. Deploy applications in 22 global AWS regions, each with multiple levels of redundancy to minimize downtime


Start modernizing applications with minimal disruption to your business. Run, monitor and manage containers and virtual machines on the same platform using familiar vCenter tools and centralized platform operations. Modernize apps using fully managed VMware Tanzu services and provision Kubernetes clusters within minutes from the VMware Cloud console. Enrich existing applications with AWS PaaS services and automate the underlying infrastructure operations with DevOps tools

Accelerate cloud migrations of vSphere workloads from months or years to weeks or days with familiar, consistent infrastructure that eliminates the rework tax needed to re-architect applications. Reduce the complexity, cost and risk of cloud migrations compared to alternatives that require time and scarce skills. Once in the cloud, use VMware and AWS services to modernize your apps at your pace

Easily extend your on-premises data center to AWS for quick access to additional capacity, on-demand scaling of apps, flexible development and test environments, or rapid regional expansion. Move your vSphere workloads without changing IP addresses into a VMware-consistent, enterprise-grade environment in the AWS Cloud quickly and cost-effectively. Manage it all through your vCenter console

Adopt a robust, feature-rich cloud platform for virtual desktops and applications. Or you can extend an existing on-premises VDI environment for desktop bursting, protection or proximity to applications running in AWS. Optimize infrastructure costs with flexible, consumption-based billing

Simplify disaster protection with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and VMware Site Recovery, on-demand disaster recovery as a service (Disaster Recovery) optimized for VMware Cloud on AWS. Accelerate time-to-protection, simplify disaster recovery operations and reduce secondary site costs with cloud economics

Confidently recover from ransomware with integrated identification, validation, and restore of recovery points in an on-demand Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE) with VMware Ransomware Recovery

VMware Cloud on AWS requires significantly fewer resources to manage than our on-premises environment, so we can focus on more valuable activities

The migration of our information system to the AWS public cloud was completed in a matter of months. In the end, we save 26% on our infrastructure costs, gain agility and all without penalizing our 900 users for a single moment

Our migration to VMware Cloud on AWS was so seamless that our users and application owners were unaware any changes took place. There was no downtime at all

Discover the value that current VMware customers achieve with VMware Cloud on AWS for hybrid cloud

Get the most out of VMware Cloud on AWS with demos and technical resources

Join the latest discussions with VMware experts and peers to get your questions answered

Consistent cloud-smart solution for network functions on public cloud

An application platform for modernizing and running enterprise applications on any cloud securely and at scale

VMware Tanzu Standard simplifies operation of Kubernetes for multi-cloud deployment, centralizing management and governance for many clusters and teams across on-premises, publicand edge
Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

Receive guidance and best practices on all security relating to networking, data encryption, role-based access control, authentication, and more

Information System Security Management and Assessment Program (ISMAP) is a compliance program mandated by the Japanese authorities to work with the public sector agencies in Japan

Customers can use IPv6 for their VMware Cloud on AWS workload VMs to communicate within and outside the SDDC

Users will be able to choose which notifications they receive and through which supported channels. This functionality, while also provided as an API, will be present in the VMC Console. These preferences are controlled at a user level, giving you the power to control which notifications you receive, reducing the noise often caused by different events that take place within one environment

Support for DFW IPFIX that enables the vRNI solution within VMware Cloud on AWS. The vRNI solution provides support for operationalizing DFW interms in planning the day to day monitoring and troubleshooting

SDDC save and restore capability that reduces configuration time by allowing customers to save their VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC configurations upon deletion and re-deploy an SDDC using these saved configurations if they need to at a later date

Enabling customers to see a particular day and time of the week for VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC maintenance

Enabling download of VMware Cloud on AWS bill in a csv format consistent with AWS bills via RESTful API


The 3 Guidelines from 3 Ministries is a collection of security and compliance guidelines published by the three ministries in Japan - Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. In Japan, medical institutions that store medical data such as patient records and medical images in an external facility such as a public cloud should align with the requirements specified in these guidelines

DHCP Relay can be configured within VMware Cloud on AWS so DHCP requests can be forwarded to an external/3rd party DHCP server. Customers can use the native NSX DHCP capabilities in VMware Cloud on AWS or use DHCP Relay to leverage an advanced external/3rd party DHCP server

Enables customers to migrate their workloads from non-VMware to VMware environments
VMware Cloud on AWS allows cloud-side VMs on the extended network to route traffic optimally through the cloud-side first-hop gateway instead of being routed through the source environment router. Hence, organizations can avoid traffic tromboning via policy based forwarding on the cloud router

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Zurich), enabling the provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Protect vSphere workloads running on Google Cloud VMware Engine. Workloads will continue to be recovered to VMware Cloud on AWS

Confidently protect your most critical virtual machines running on VMware Cloud on AWS with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery by configuring protection schedules with Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for as low as 15 minutes so that the data loss from unforeseen DR events is minimized

Protect vSphere workloads running on VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts. Workloads will continue to be recovered to VMware Cloud on AWS

Use Transit Connect to carry replication, failback, and management traffic between your on-premises protected site and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

Scale-up and protect your workloads across multiple VMware Cloud organizations

The existing legacy view is deprecating. The new dashboard view provides a summary of your networking status with improved performance

Protect vSphere workloads running on VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. Workloads will continue to be recovered to VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware Cloud on AWS service level costs at SDDC level are distributed to resource level, so that users can perform showback to consumer entities, leveraging the perspective construct in CloudHealth. This granular costing methodology should also factor in amortized subscription cost of committed hosts

Protect vSphere workloads running on Azure VMware solution. Workloads will continue to be recovered to VMware Cloud on AWS

Use public RESTFUL APIs to set up protection, recover workloads, and manage the lifecycle of VMware Cloud DR instances

Enabling deployment of scalable applications requiring a load balancer powered by VMware NSX

It helps manage user teams more efficiently with Property Groups. Property groups let users templatize their VMware Cloud on AWS environment properties and reuse them for new catalog requests within a VMware Cloud Template
It reduces the exposure of sensitive data by keeping them encrypted in the database. vRealize Automation Cloud helps users create and encrypt secret variables for VMware Cloud on AWS and consume them as part of VMware Cloud Templates or extensibility workflows (e.g., with ABX or vRealize Orchestrator)

Supports authentication with external identity providers for the vCenter Server on VMware Cloud on AWS. This will also enable Single Sign-On across the VMWare Cloud console and the vCenter Server running on VMWare Cloud on AWS

Reducing configuration time by persisting VMware SDDC networking configuration as a template that can be used to deploy a new VMware SDDC

Protect and recover your vSphere virtual machines using VMware Cloud DR in additional regions

Deliver in-service guided walk-throughs for on-boarding and common configuration tasks to accelerate time to value

Customers can provision and scale file shares alongside block volumes on vSAN datastore on VMware Cloud on AWS

Using Active Directory as a federated authentication provider for VMware Cloud on AWS Console login (console.cloud.vmware.com)

Simplifying the creation of the required firewall rules in VMware Cloud on AWS Console, to allow communication across on-premises networks and VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC components. For example, automated configuration of the firewall rules allow necessary ports for vCenter, SRM, and other service communication for Hybrid Linked Mode and VMware Site Recovery use cases

vSphere Client plugins can be enabled on VMware Cloud on AWS, allowing VMware Cloud Admin customers to register VMware Cloud-certified vSphere Client plugins securely to the VMware Cloud SDDC(s) they manage

Integrated data protection for your VMware Cloud on AWS workloads with VM-level protection policies

The Plugin Marketplace and the integration with Cloud Marketplace is available in the vSphere Client interface, showing available plugins, lifecycle management, notification on available updates

Achieve faster failover times and failback sooner by recovering your virtual machines directly onthe Scale Out Cloud File System and skipping the storage migration to VMware Cloud on AWS.The virtual machine storage continues to be served from the cloud filesystem

A new consumption model for VMware Cloud on AWS with which VMware will partition the hosts and provide smaller consumable slices, lowering the price and removing the complexity of the SDDC. A slice is a resource pool comprising of compute, memory, network and storage. You will be able to purchase and consume multiple slices per your requirements


VMware Cloud on AWS enables customers to add a vTPM device to a virtual machine. Customers can add a vTPM device to virtual machines running Windows Server 2008 and later, Windows desktop 7 and later, or Linux. To support vTPMs in VMware Cloud on AWS, SDDCs created using version 1.19 and later will automatically include the provisioning of vSphere Native Key Provider in vCenter. Customers can opt-in to deploy new SDDCs with 1.19. This feature is available as PREVIEW and will be enabled on a request basis. Please contact your account team if you are interested in having this feature enabled for a new 1.19 SDDC

Microsoft introduced new minimum virtual hardware requirements with the Windows 11 operating system. Microsoft requires a vTPM device to be present during Windows 11 virtual machine installation and upgrades. In SDDC version 1.19, VMware Cloud on AWS is introducing a new feature to enable adding a Virtual Trusted Platform Module together with the vSphere Native Key Provider in vCenter

Customers can opt-in to deploy new SDDCs with 1.19. This feature is available as PREVIEW and will be enabled on a request basis. Please contact your account team if you are interested in having this feature enabled for a new 1.19 SDDC

Provide the option for select VMware Cloud on AWS customers to 'Activate' vRealize Operations Cloud from within VMware Cloud console within the 'Add-Ons' section in the VMware Cloud console UI. When customer 'activates' vRealize Operations Cloud, all the integration tasks needed will be programmatically performed for the user in the background such as:
Allows you to manage VMware Cloud on AWS users, roles, and permissions via RESTful API

Enabling customers to select a particular day and time of the week for VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC maintenance

Automates monitoring and reporting of VMware SDDC activity using the VMware Cloud on AWS Tasks API

VMware SDDCs can be consumed on-demand or via a 1 or 3-year term commitment. Now we offer the option to pay for the 1 or 3-year commitment also via monthly installments. Continue to enjoy the savings of the 1 or 3-year term commitments without upfront payment. Please note that the monthly billing option is only available to qualified pay by invoice transactions directly through VMware or purchases from a Managed Service Provider (MSP) partner under the VMware Cloud Provider Program. Please contact your VMware sales or MSP partner representative for eligibility

VMware Site Recovery can be consumed on-demand or via a 1 or 3-year term commitment. Now we offer the option to pay for the 1 or 3-year commitment via monthly installments. Continue to enjoy the savings of the 1 or 3-year term commitments without upfront payment. Please note that the monthly billing option is only available to qualified pay by invoice transactions directly through VMware or purchases from a Managed Service Provider (MSP) partner under the VMware Cloud Provider Program. Please contact your VMware sales or MSP partner representative for eligibility


VMware Cloud on AWS now provides automated space reclamation support with TRIM and SCSI UNMAP to reclaim previously allocated storage as free space

Enabling live migration (vMotion) to VMware Cloud on AWS by accelerating migration with vSphere replication

This feature supports the forwarding of VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC vRLIC logs to forward to either Europe (Frankfurt) or Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS regions if those SDDCs are deployed to those regions

Get even more flexibility in purchasing VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery with VM term subscriptions. VM subscriptions can be purchased anytime using the Global DR Console for 1- or 3-year durations

Add cyber resiliency to your business continuity plan by leveraging VMware Ransomware Recovery for predictable and secure recovery from ransomware attacks. This new VMware Cloud DR add-on builds on existing ransomware recovery capabilities by adding a dedicated ransomware recovery workflow, restore point selection assistance, pre-defined and custom VM isolation levels, and embedded NextGen AV with behavioral analysis, and vulnerability scanning

Telco Cloud Platform Public Cloud is a new Public Cloud platform that caters directly to Telecommunications Service Providers. This platform builds on top of existing Telco-class platforms VMware Cloud on AWS, Telco Cloud Platform and Telco Cloud Infrastructure, catering to Telco Requirements. VMware Telco Cloud Platform – Public Cloud is a cloud-smart solution, tightly integrated with VMware Cloud. The joint solution allows our customers to extend their on-premises telcobuilt with VMware Telco Cloud Platform. This first release is available on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC Version 16.2

This feature enables VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC Groups to peer their native Transit Gateways (TGW) with VMware Transit Connect, simplifying access between VMware Cloud on AWS and AWS resources across accounts and across regions, while retaining control over connectivity in the respective environments

VMware Cloud on AWS customers can utilize NSX Traceflow to inspect the path of a packet from source to destination in the SDDC. Traceflow also provides visibility for external communication over VMware Transit Connect

Customers can now protect up to 4000 VMs per SDDC using VMware Site Recovery


VMware Cloud's Tanzu services is a full-managed and integrated offering containing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Tanzu Mission Control Essentials where Customers are responsible for providing and maintaining a basic collection of networks, which are used for deploying both Tanzu infrastructure as well as workloads. VMware is responsible for the management of the Tanzu infrastructure in addition to SDDC software components and the IaaS infrastructure resources. As part of this managed service, VMware also provides tighter integrations in the VMC Console as well as Tanzu Mission Control Essentials

Activate recovery regions by deploying orchestrator instances and manage subscriptions through a simple global DR Console

Recover a specific set of files or folders in a VM from a replicated snapshot and download it locally. Use this recovered copy to manually restore it on the source VM on your protected site

VMware Cloud on AWS has successfully completed the IRAP cloud security assessment. The IRAP Cloud Security Assessment demonstrates our compliance against the Australian Information Security Manual (ISM) and Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) and shows VMware Cloud on AWS’s suitability to handle Australian Government data
VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka), enabling the provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

The seed checkpoint feature provides recoverable migration progress with checkpoint seed data. With this capability, users have the option to retain replica disks at the target datastore if a migration is failed or canceled. Seed checkpoints enable VMware HCX to reuse the disks on the target for seeding replication data, avoiding the need to transfer all the data again

Maximize your investment in VMware Cloud on AWS by using an existing SDDC created from VMware Cloud console, for recovery with VMware Cloud DR. Clusters and hosts added to VMware Cloud DR from VMware Cloud console are automatically recognized by VMware Cloud DR

With enterprise federation, enterprises can use their corporate identities and credentials and link their VMware ID (My VMware) accounts to both log in to VMware Cloud Services and manage access to services/organizations/features within VMware Cloud services. With the new enhancement, customers will get self-service experience to setup enterprise federation so that any customer can setup federation without the need of engagement with VMware

Use AWS Direct Connect with public virtual interfaces (Public VIF) to carry replication, failback,and management traffic between your on-premises protected site and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery over a high-bandwidth, low-latency network connection

Expand your DR strategy to include protection of your virtual machines running in VMware Cloud on AWS in addition to those running in your on-premises data center. Confidently migrate your most critical virtual machines to VMware Cloud on AWS with the knowledge that they can be easily protected to another AWS Availability Zone in the same region using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Africa (Cape Town), enabling the provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i4i bare-metal hosts. Each host has 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory, and Up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. It offers high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and better security with always-on encryption

Enable customers to provide real-time ratings and comments on workflows and features so that valuable feedback can influence the future direction of the product
Visibility into overall health of DR environment to be able to maintain DR posture
Get additional REST APIs to monitor DR operations, set up protection and recover your workloads and automate the capabilities to configure and manage DR at scale

A fully managed, low cost, high performance external NFS datastore that can be attached to VMware Cloud on AWS host. It is built on NetApp’s ONTAP file system that provides VMware Cloud on AWS customers up to 192TiB Flash Capacity and 2PiB of data storage depending on storage efficiency savings depending on storage efficiency

VMware Cloud on AWS SKU-based transaction allows distributors to purchase on behalf of a designated reseller and end customer. This 2-tier partner commerce motion for VMware Cloud on AWS enables distributors to streamline the purchase of VMware Cloud on AWS hosts by SKU without purchasing upfront SPP credits or signing a contract. The purchased subscription is activated immediately upon the delivery of the email invitation to onboard the service. Please Note: End customers do NOT have self-service commerce capabilities and must request further VMware Cloud on AWS subscriptions from the reseller/distributor when they want to purchase them

Protect larger environments by replicating more than 6000 virtual machines to a single AWS region in a VMware Cloud organization

Have a better pulse on your DR SLAs by receiving email notifications for any SLA violations, including RTO and RPO violations

Customers can now enable Tanzu services on existing VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs upgraded to version 1.16 and above. There is no longer a need to create new SDDCs or new Clusters, allowing customers to leverage their existing environments


Customers can now access Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu through the VMC Console, where they can download and self-deploy the Application Transformer appliance into their VMware Cloud SDDC. Once deployed and configured, Administrators can now use Application Transformer to focus and accelerate their application modernization journey, enabling key workflows that remove the need to manually discover and analyze every workload, automatically building application topologies with all included application dependencies, and ultimately shortening the time needed for planning and execution. After discovering and analyzing the applications within the environment, Application Transformer also offers the ability to containerize a variety of processes and applications, generating OCI-compliance images and deployable Kubernetes YAML manifests, providing administrators the required tools to help their organization begin executing on re-platforming traditional applications

VMware Site Recovery received the highest level of PCI certification (PCI DSS Level 1 provider status). By being certified as PCI DSS compliant level 1 service provider, VMware Site Recovery service operates in compliance with PCI DSS compliant security measures and controls, thereby potentially addressing the needs of a broad range of customers and workloads that need to store, process, or transmit cardholder or sensitive authentication data
Introduces the VMware NSX Manager user interface with a streamlined layout and separate tabs for Networking, Security and Troubleshooting

CloudHealth add-on provides summarized dashboard of VMware Cloud on AWS spend and inventory with ability to slice-and-dice VMware Cloud on AWS spend for past 13 months using various parameters and intervals. Usage reports provide granular visibility into service level usage for host, elastic IP and data transfer

Continuous export of log of user actions, replication/recovery events, and site health to various log analysis and monitoring solutions via vRealize Log Insight Cloud

The OSPAR report demonstrates VMware Cloud on AWS compliance against the outsourcing guidelines prescribed for by the Association of Banks in Singapore

Use VMware Transit Connect to get high-speed and resilient connections between VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs across different AWS regions for DR replication traffic

VMware Cloud DR is a Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Trusted Cloud Provider and registered as a Security, Trust, Assurance and Risk (STAR) Level One service. CSA is an organization dedicated to defining best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. STAR Registry is aaccessibly registry that documents the security and privacy controls

Extend on-premises Horizon Pods to directly manage virtual desktop capacity in VMware Cloud on AWS by leveraging the Horizon Remote Agent feature. No need to create a separate Horizon Pod on VMware Cloud on AWS

Protection groups now support quiesced snapshots, which ensure that a snapshot represents a consistent state of the guest file systems of VMs in the group. From a quiesced snapshots, you can restore the VM and its application to the same state as before when a snapshot was taken. VMware Tools are required. Not supported with high-frequency snapshots


The VMware Cloud service will automatically scale up any stretched cluster on AZ failure. This capability is added free of charge and will attempt to maintain the Compute resources in the event of an AZ failure by adding non-billable hosts to the surviving AZ until the cluster has returned to its original host count. Upon AZ recovery the cluster will automatically Scale-In as soon as the burst capacity is no longer needed. This functionality is dependent on free capacity and therefore carries no guarantee

This protection extends to partial failures as well. Should an instance fail on a Stretched Cluster and Auto-Remediation is unable to recover or replace the host. The service will add the instance to the other AZ until a new host can be recovered in the original AZ. This capability is added free of charge and will attempt to maintain the Compute resources in the event of a partial AZ failure by adding non-billable hosts to the surviving AZ until the cluster has returned to its original host count

You can now take advantage of updated content, which provides an overview of the VMware Tanzu services you can use with VMware Cloud today. These services include vSphere 7 with Tanzu (in Preview), Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, and Tanzu Mission Control. Customers who are part of the vSphere 7 with Tanzu preview on VMware Cloud, can enable a managed Kubernetes service through Launchpad. Customers with Application Modernization initiatives can take advantage of the VMware App Navigator content under Resources

Discover and learn about the virtual desktops solution via VMware Cloud Launchpad. The overview, journey, and resource pages will get you the information you need to start your journey with VMware Horizon

Start your vRealize Cloud Management journey from VMware Cloud launchpad. Leverage launchpad to discover and learn more about vRealize Cloud Management services

Stretch cluster is now supporting a 2 host configuration across multi-AZ. A customer who wants a 2-host configuration can choose to deploy it across AZs

Confidently protect your most critical virtual machines running on VMware Cloud on AWS with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery by configuring protection schedules with Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) as low as 30 minutes so that the risk of data loss from unforeseen DR events is minimized

This capability helps with migration of non-VMware workloads (KVM and Hyper-V) to VMware Cloud on AWS
Accelerate your Disaster Recovery implementation with step-by-step guidance, relevant tools and a rich set of resources using VMware Cloud Launchpad. Click on "Learn More" under "Disaster Recovery" to navigate to launch your DR journey. This experience is available to everyone without requiring login to VMware Cloud


Protect larger environments by replicating up to 2500 virtual machines to a single AWS region in a VMware Cloud organization. You might need to split 2500 VMs across multiple VMware Cloud DR file systems for larger protected capacity scale. See VMware Configuration Maximum tool for operational scale limits of VMware Cloud DR

Flexible Subscription is a new subscription type for VMware Cloud on AWS now available. It is available for redemption in the VMware Cloud Console as part of the subscription purchasing flow. The benefit of flexible subscription is that it allows for customers to exchange their VMware Cloud on AWS flexible subscription for any new VMware Cloud on AWS term subscription. When requesting an exchange, the leftover value of the VMware Cloud on AWS flexible subscription will be used towards purchasing a new VMware Cloud on AWS full term subscription. Flexible subscription is available for i3.metal and i3en.metal instance type in all regions. Customers can exchange an instance type, region, or duration of their Flexible Subscription. Flexible subscriptions allow customers toto VMware Cloud on AWS but maintain flexibility when their business needs change

Provides capabilities such as networking limit-based alerts and intents, alert categories, alert types, setting max limits, current usage, criticality, description, fix recommendations, and "VMware Cloud on AWS Limit" alert types

These alerts will allow the VMware Cloud on AWS users in their VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC planning and troubleshooting efforts

Users will be able to create VMware Cloud on AWS networking intents in vRealize Network Insight for properly designing and managing their VMware Cloud on AWS network

Deploy the Cloud File System for replication and recovery using a self-service wizard in the VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery UI

Cyber Essentials is a UK Government-backed, industry-supported scheme to help organizations protect themselves against common online threats. Certification of Cyber Essentials will demonstrate our commitment to preventing and protecting against the vast majority of common cyber attacks

Try out VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery as a "pilot" before committing to a term subscription. Pilot deployments are charged at a fixed hourly rate and include 5 TiB of protected capacity and 25 protected virtual machines. Any usage beyond these limits will incur charges at the applicable per-TiB overage and per-VM on-demand rates. Once you are done with your evaluation, create a 1-year or 3-year committed term subscription to seamlessly convert this to a standard deployment and continue using the service

VMware Transit Connect supports SDDC Group connectivity to Transit VPC. Customers can manually configure routes pointing to a VPC attachment in the same region

Replication performance has been optimized such that replication throughput is up to 3X higher when using high bandwidth and low latency connectivity between the protected and recovery sites. This capability requires at least vSphere 7.0 Update 2 and vSphere Replication 8.4 at the recovery site

Re-protect your virtual machines significantly faster after a planned recovery. The re-protection operation is especially quick when run shortly after the planned recovery such that the delta between the data on the source and recovery sites is not large. VMware Site Recovery now automatically starts tracking changes on the recovered virtual machine after failover. Only those changes are then replicated to the original protected site when re-protect is run and checksum comparisons can be completely avoided. This capability requires at least vSphere 7.0 Update 2 and vSphere Replication 8.4 in both sites

System & Organization Control (SOC) Reports are independent third-party examination reports that demonstrate how VMware Cloud on AWS achieves key compliance controls and objectives to meet SOC 2, Type 2 requirements. The purpose of these reports is to demonstrate the design and testing of SOC 2 controls over a period of time

VMware Transit Connect now provides network connectivity among SDDC Group members in multiple AWS regions

VMware Cloud on AWS dashboards allow you to track the capacity, cost, and inventory overviews of the VMware SDDCs. You can also track the monitoring of virtual machines and the utilization and performance of these SDDCs. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well.

System & Organization Control (SOC) Reports are independent, third-party examination reports that demonstrate how VMware Cloud DR achieves key compliance controls and objectives to meet SOC 2, Type 1 requirements. The purpose of these reports is to help you and your auditors understand the controls established to support operations and compliance

System & Organization Control (SOC) Reports are independent, third-party examination reports that demonstrate how VMware Cloud DR achieves key compliance controls and objectives to meet SOC 2, Type 2 requirements. The purpose of these reports is to demonstrate the design and testing of SOC 2 controls over a period of time

NSX Advanced Firewall introduces NSX Distributed IDS/IPS for VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs. NSX Distributed IDS/IPSin detecting attempts at exploiting vulnerabilities in applications

ISO 27017 provides guidance on the information security aspects of cloud computing, recommending the implementation of cloud-specific information security controls that supplement the guidance of the ISO 27002 and ISO 27001 standards


The Migration Solution experience delivers a prescriptive, intuitive and integrated workflow that expedites large-scale, data center-wide migrations to VMware Cloud on AWS. Customers are led through the steps of assessing, building and migrating workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS, with relevant tools such as VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud and VMware HCX and associated documentation such as on-boarding handbooks

VMware SDDCs can be deployed and resized hourly for on-demand granularity. Longer-term reservation of hosts gives you up to 50% cost saving compared to on-demand hosts consumed over equivalent period. Host Reservations are available in 1 or 3 year terms. You pay upfront, but maximize your savings

Enabling Managed Service Providers to download bills in an AWS consistent csv format for their managed SDDCs via API

ISO/IEC 27001:2013 specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system within the context of the organization

ISO 27018 is a code of practice that focuses on protection of personal data in the cloud. It is based on ISO information security standard 27002 and provides implementation guidance on ISO 27002 controls applicable to public cloud Personally Identifiable Information (PII). It also provides a set of additional controls and associated guidance intended to address public cloud PII protection requirements not addressed by the existing ISO 27002 control set

VMware Tanzu Mission Control simplifies deployment and operation of Kubernetes, centralizing management and governance for many clusters and teams across multiple environments. With Tanzu Kubernetes Grid integrated with Tanzu Mission Control on VMware Cloud on AWS, customers can easily deploy and run Kubernetes on VMware Cloud on AWS with consistent operations and management across clusters and applications to support their infrastructure and app modernization

End-to-End VM to VM MPLS path visibility for VMware Cloud on AWS Direct Connect using vRealize Network Insight
Tool to estimate VMware Cloud on AWS environment size and total cost of ownership (TCO), based on user inputs

Enabling Managed Service Providers to download utilization metrics for their managed VMware SDDCs


Kickstart the VMware Cloud on AWS hybrid cloud experience with a time-bound, single-host configuration, at less than ½ the price of 2-host VMware Cloud on AWS offering. This new consumption option is designed for customers who want to prove the value of VMware Cloud on AWS in their environments before scaling to the production environment. Purchase hourly on-demand payable via US based credit cards or via VMware credit funds. Seamlessly scale-up at any time: At the completion of your 60 days time-bound offering, your single host SDDC will reset. However, you can easily scale-up to the minimum 2-host purchase and continue your cloud expansion without losing any of your data before the time period ends. Take advantage of capabilities that do not require multiple hosts within your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, such as cloud migration, evaluating disaster recovery as a service add-on, and hybrid linked mode

As part of the developer center, users can now browse NSX-T APIs through API Explorer

Flow Based Application Discovery with Machine Learning with improved scale for number of VMs and application scale supported
Attach external storage to a SDDC managed by the Managed Service Provider (MSP). The SDDC has three NFS datastores that are backed by the Managed Service Provider (MSP) cloud storage. This capability is currently offered through Faction as the Managed Service Provider (MSP)

Cloud Zone Insights helps maintain visibility of VMware Cloud on AWS consumption and capacity for the cloud zones that users have defined. Combining the power of vRealize Operations Cloud with vRealize Automation Cloud, Cloud Zone Insights bring users the information they need and the actions they need to take on the same platform to tighten up hybrid cloud operations

The Cloud Management Assessment (CMA) is the next generation assessment offered by vRealize Operations Cloud. CMA aligns with VMware Cloud on AWS and helps customers prepare for a move to VMware Cloud on AWS as well as guides them to how to best manage VMware Cloud on AWS, including assessing capacity needed, performance optimization and ROI

Supporting SQL Clusters in Active Passive with shared disk configuration via SCSI 3 PR. This enables customers to cut down on the SQL Server licensing costs, by paying only for active SQL nodes

With vRealize Operations Cloud and vRealize Operations, VMware Cloud on AWS customers can now measure, alert and report on the key configuration maximums for more predictable costing of their SDDC environments. vRealize Operations Cloud provides a rich set of configuration maximum metrics with limits (both hard limits and soft limits), calculates the provisioned resources and alerts if some of these key configuration limits are being breached. Keys areas of configuration maximums covered with this feature are: - Organization Maximums - SDDC Maximums - vCenter Maximums - vSAN Maximums


VMware Cloud Partner Navigator support for vRealize Network Insight Cloud so MSPs can utilize a multi-tenant version for network visibility of VMware Cloud on AWS VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud, now available through VMware Cloud Partner Navigator, takes a flexible and modular SaaS approach to delivering network visibility and analytics. This enables partners to help optimize and secure their tenant’s network infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The cloud-based solution provides a rapid path to monetizing new professional service offerings at scale—like security, network and application assessments—and new ongoing services, like quarterly security assessments or self-service assessments, reducing the time to market

vCenter Cloud Gateway is a new on-premises virtual appliance that delivers a single logical view and hybrid management of both on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS resources. It enables customers to manage VMware Cloud on AWS resources as extension of a on-premises data center. Customers can manage both on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS resources from on-premises using vCenter Cloud Gateway. Simplifed set up for improved user experience with integrated configuration of vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode as part of the Cloud Gateway installation. With Cloud Gateway, customers do not need to configure Active Directory (AD/LDAP) in the cloud vCenter server instance or enter their on-premises vCenter admin credentials

Simplifies hybrid resource management with a single inventory view between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS using vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode. Enhanced single logical view and hybrid management of resources by extending Hybrid Linked Mode to connect a VMware Cloud on AWS environment with multiple linked on-premises vCenter Server instances (external PSC topology)

Customers can use existing VMware purchasing vehicles -- Subscription Purchasing Program (SPP) and Hybrid Purchasing Program (HPP) credits to pay for VMware Cloud on AWS

Stretch cluster is now supporting a 4-host configuration across multi-AZ. A customer who wants a 4-host configuration can choose to deploy it across AZs

Expanding Hybrid Linked Mode support for on-premises vCenter Server versions: 6.0u3 or above

Traditional Horizon Instant Clone maintains internal VMs, called parentVMs, for ease of operation. These parentVMs take up previous memory on each host, which adds to the cost of deployment. With smart provisioning, Horizon can now intelligently choose to provision instant clones with or without parentVMs, depending on the situation. Administrators also have the freedom to choose to provision all instant clones without parentVMs

Improving application availability and performance by live migrating virtual machines between clusters in the same VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC

AppVolumes makes it easy to deliver, update, manage and monitor applications and users across virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and published application environments

Efficiently and easily deploy and manage multiple instances of VMware Cloud DR within thesame VMware Cloud organization and cloud region while continuing to use a single SaaS-simple cloud-based management console to administer and configure all these instances. Recover to multiple VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs within the organization for increased scale and performance benefits

Enabling live migration (vMotion) of virtual machines between SDDCs deployed in different regions using VMware HCX

Further lower DR costs by using a two host SDDC cluster as a "pilot light" with VMware Cloud DR. Recover smaller sets of virtual machines cost-effectively by only creating a two host SDDC

Purchase VMware Cloud DR through your preferred VMware Cloud on AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP) to benefit from your existing relationship with the MSP and leverage their unique value-added managed services in conjunction with VMware Cloud DR and VMware Cloud on AWS

Meet your PCI DSS compliance obligations for virtual machines protected by using VMware Cloud DR, under a shared responsibility model to maximize flexibility and control. Benefit from enhancements in security controls and operational processes undertaken by VMware to make VMware Cloud DR a PCI DSS 3.2.1 Level 1 Service Provider, the highest level of assessment available. Further reinforce your compliance status with VMware Cloud DR's end-to-end and daily data integrity checks, continuous DR health checks, and audit-ready, detailed DR reports. In the event of a DR incident, the protected virtual machines can be recovered to a PCI compliant environment in VMware Cloud on AWS

Benefit from various enhancements and optimizations of VMware Cloud DR's scale-out cloud file system and achieve production-grade performance on your most critical virtual machines recovered on the VMware Cloud DR live mount datastore

Virtual machine workloads can also access Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) for fully managed file service to scale the file-based storage automatically to petabyte scale with high availability and durability across multiple availability zones

Cloud Native Storage is now utilized on VMware Cloud on AWS with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Plus

Users can deploy a large SDDC at deployment time with large size instances of NSX edge and vCenter

VMware Horizon support for VMware Cloud on AWS enables customers to: - Easily add and extend on-premises desktop services without buying additional hardware - Co-locate virtual desktops or published application (remote desktop session) hosts near latency-sensitive applications in the cloud - Leverage elastic capacity as a cost-effective way to protect on-premises Horizon deployments or temporary needs


Elastic DRS enables SDDC to scale out a cluster faster by adding hosts in parallel when CPU or memory thresholds are reached. Latest enhancement enables the cluster scale out faster by adding 12 hosts in parallel compared to 4 hosts previously supported

Horizon Instant Clone Support is available for VMware Cloud on AWS. Customers can create clones from a base image in seconds to rapidly scale virtual desktop and app deployments

VMware Horizon now offers full clone support for VMware Cloud on AWS. Customers can now rapidly scale Horizon desktops and apps to VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware Horizon for VMware Cloud on AWS delivers a seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud for virtual desktops and applications. It combines the enterprise capabilities of VMware Cloud on AWS, with the market-leading capabilities of VMware Horizon - for a simple, secure and scalable solution. Now, customers can easily extend desktop services to address on-demand capacity, protection of desktop workloads and AWS cloud co-location for latency-sensitive applications without buying additional data center resources

Customers can now see all the historical notification and activity events in their vRealize Log Insight Cloud instance. In other words, all the historical events that you see in the Activity Log tab would also be available via vRealize Log Insight Cloud

VMware Site Recovery now supports seamless resizing of virtual disks of protected virtual machines without disrupting the ongoing replications

VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency

Monitor heath, availability, capacity, and cost of Kubernetes clusters on VMC with vRealize Operations Cloud. With enhanced dashboards, reports, and alerts content, gain full-stack visibility on VMware Cloud, upstream Kubernetes to SDDC and Orgs

VMware Cloud on AWS has expanded the custom CPU core capability to allow customers to choose a different number of physical cores per host depending on the host instance type. Specifically, a customer can enable more cores on a host instance type with a larger number of physical cores


New out-of-the-box dashboards to cover seven key operational use cases: availability, performance, compliance, capacity, cost, configuration and inventory

Import and/or export configuration data of the replications created in vSphere Replication for use cases such as migrating vSphere Replication configuration to a different host

Application performance monitoring (APM) tool integration with AppDynamics, Datadog, Dynatrace, and NewRelic to observe the performance, availability, security, and user experience of software applications

Customers can now run their business-critical operations on VMware Cloud on AWS. This means high-value technical support is very critical for delivering operational efficiency, risk reduction, and business continuity. VMware's new In-Product Support gives customers a truly unique and effortless support experience to meet the dynamic needs of their digital business. VMware's In-Product Support provides access to support channels and resources, including: **Intelligent Search Surfaces popular content based on the user's location and contextual usage in the product. Powerful search relevant content across VMware Knowledge Base Articles, Product Docs & Community Posts to answer questions without contacting support. **Chat with VMware Support Quickly address questions or issues with highly skilled VMware Support Engineers and Customer Support Representatives. Continue to search and interact with the product interface while chatting with the support. **Support Requests (SRs For situations that go beyond chat, customers can create and manage SRs or our Support Engineers can create SRs on their behalf via chat without leaving the product. **Ask the Community Engage and pose questions to actively moderated communities backed by passionate VMware Support Engineers and VMware Experts around the globe. **Service Health Review live status of VMware Cloud Services and receive important service notifications

With 1-click, enable near real-time monitoring at a 20 second granularity for better observability of metrics and events in vRealize Operations Cloud. Persist data for up to 3-days to ensure historical evidence and observe data through dashboards and charts in near real-time


Avoid integration overhead and ensure operational consistency with third-party tools. VMware Cloud on AWS has a broadening ISV technology ecosystem support with support for categories across data protection, DevOps, cloud migration, security and more. Technology partners validate that their solutions work with VMware Cloud on AWS. For a complete list of technology partners who have validated that their solution works with VMware Cloud on AWS, please visit [VMware Solution Exchange](httpsmarketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/featured?product=3450,3429)
VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Monitor the health and performance of Horizon virtual desktops running on VMware Cloud on AWS

Improved visibility of network relationships and metrics to monitor the health of network components to better correlate with potential infrastructure issues

VMware Cloud on AWS service is now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Take advantage of significantly discounted pricing for the VMware Site Recovery add-on by committing to 1-year or 3-year subscription terms

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Ireland), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (London). Enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Frankfurt), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Enabling automated deployment of VMware SDDCs in VMware Cloud on AWS using AWS CloudFormation templates
VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Canada (Central), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Pricing API’s for integration with vRealize Automation Cloud to enable showback and chargeback use cases

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS South America (Sao Paulo), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

G-Cloud is a framework agreement published by the UK Crown Commercial Service. VMware Cloud on AWS is listed on the G-Cloud digital marketplace. Check out the digital marketplace portal below for a detailed overview of our service, support, relevant pricing documents, terms and conditions, and sales contacts

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS US East (Ohio), enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Paris), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Cyber Essentials is a UK Government-backed, industry-supported scheme to help organizations protect themselves against common online threats. Certification of Cyber Essentials demonstrates our commitment to preventing and protecting against the vast majority of common cyber attacks

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS US East (N. Virginia), enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS US West (N. California), enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS US West (Oregon), enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

As a native solution to vRealize Operations Cloud, the management pack for AWS utilizes AWS Cloudwatch to collect operations data for AWS services including EC2, EBS, ASG, EMG, and others to provide pre-configured dashboards, alerts, and reports. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

Now you can configure the retention of replicas from multiple points in time

FISC (The Center for Financial Industry Information Systems) is an organization under the Japanese Minister of Finance. FISC issued security guidelines that prescribe security measures for financial institutions in Japan. VMware Cloud on AWS aligns with FISC guidelines

Manage your VMware Cloud on AWS instances in vRealize Operations Cloud using the CSP API token for authorization and communication. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

Enables customers to get fast responses to any question, product help, log defects, or get use case help

European Banking Authority (EBA) outsourcing guidelines prescribe the governance framework and guidelines for financial institutions within the scope of the EBA's mandate when outsourcing internal functions to service providers (including cloud outsourcing)

The Fourteen Cloud Security Principles are a set of cloud security guidelines prescribed by the UK National Cyber Security Center (NCSC). VMware Cloud on AWS aligns with Cloud Security Principles and the objectives of these principles as part of NCSC Cloud Security Guidance


Generate VMware Cloud on AWS assessment reports and compliance using the vSphere Security hardening guidelines, PCI, HIPPA, FISMA, ISO (and more) benchmarks to ensure compliance of VMware on cloud infrastructure from applications to objects that need to be compliant as per the cloud infrastructure rules for virtual machines. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

VMware Cloud Assembly is a multi-cloud, declarative blueprint orchestration and automation solution that enables infrastructure code for expedited infrastructure consumption and application delivery, while reducing manual effort and the need for cloud specific knowledge. The ability to share content and deployments among project teams also increases collaboration and agility

VMware Code Stream Add-on Service provides release automation and continuous delivery to enable frequent, reliable releases of application and IT code for development and operations teams

With vRealize Operations Cloud, you can determine how many hosts will be needed and the potential cost of a new VMware Cloud on AWS environment based on existing VMs in your environment, or for net new VMs that will be provisioned for the first time in VMware Cloud on AWS. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

Workload optimization provides support for moving virtual compute resources and their file systems dynamically across datastore clusters. Using workload optimization, you can rebalance virtual machines and storage across clusters, relieving demand on an overloaded individual cluster, and maintaining or improving cluster performance. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

VMware Service Broker Add-on Service is an aggregator of services across multiple cloud platforms, as well as, a single access point for consumption (catalog) with guardrails for a range of services, including Cloud Assembly, Kubernetes Helm charts, AWS Cloud Formation and vRealize Orchestrator workflows

Completing Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ). CAIQ provides industry-accepted ways to document what security controls exist in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings

This enables the customer to utilize one Direct Connect link with VPN as Standby. To use this, Direct Connect Private VIF can be configured with IPSEC VPN as Standby for non-ESXi and non-vMotion traffic

With support for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, customers can monitor Kubernetes clusters on VMware vRealize Operations Cloud using the VMware vRealize Operations management pack for container monitoring. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well where customers need to go to marketplace and download and configure the management pack from marketplace

Deferred AWS account connection for Single-Host SDDCs, enabling provisioning of Single-Host SDDCs without connecting to an AWS account for up to 14 days

Contextual Help delivers in-service page sensitive help menu, with searchable list of questions

Delivers simple automation script that discovers your on-premises VM templates and uploads them into your SDDC

Using two factor authentication systems to login to the VMware Cloud on AWS Console (console.cloud.vmware.com)

Customers can now leverage a more flexible permissions model with vCenter Server in VMware Cloud on AWS. This capability enables cloud administrators to create custom roles and assign more granular permissions to users and groups. These permissions can be assigned to users and groups globally or for specific vCenter objects

The ability to select the number of physical cores per host during the time of provisioning, enables customers to optimize their environments for applications that are licensed per physical core

Enables customers to run development and test and non-business critical workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS

Enabling customers to delay AWS account linking for Single Host SDDC

Equal Cost Multi Pathing (ECMP) enables customers to scale the bandwidth across multiple links. With this release, multiple route-based IPSEC VPN tunnels can be used with ECMP to provide additional bandwidth and connectivity resiliency to on-premises, AWS VPCs and to AWS TGW

The developer center is integrated into the VMware Cloud on AWS service console giving automation experts, DevOps engineers and developers a central portal to gain access to detailed API information, software development kits, code samples and command line interfaces. It is now easy to learn and execute the VMware Cloud on AWS Service RESTful APIs with the Interactive API Explorer. Customers can quickly integrate their workflows and partner solutions with VMware and community code samples for common development languages - The Open Source software development kits (SDK's) and links to getting started guides and documentation will offer a better developer experience to VMware Cloud features - Automation experts and DevOps engineers can seamlessly tie their business workflows into VMware Cloud with a selection of command line interfaces

Improves set-up speed and consistency with usability improvements for Layer 3 IPSec VPN set-up through an easy to use configuration template

VMware Cloud on AWS now enables customers to select another host instance type, i.e. the i3EN.metal instance


VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud is a SaaS service that can help you fast-track application security and networking across private, hybrid and public. It accelerates micro-segmentation deployment, minimizes business risk during application migration, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments. It is also available as an on-premises perpetual product, VMware vRealize Network Insight. Customers use vRealize Network Insight Cloud to map app dependencies for micro-segmentation planning or application migration planning. Customers can troubleshoot app connectivity issues across virtual, physical and multi-cloud network infrastructure. Support for VMware Cloud on AWS, provides visibility into configuration and flows, including all IPFIX flows. Paths can now be traced between VMs running in VMware Cloud on AWS, on premises in vSphere, or with EC2 instances running in AWS. In addition, it provides complete overlay-underlay visibility and supports Netflow and sFlow. It includes integration with leading firewall and networking vendors such as F5, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco ASA, Cisco ACI, and more. Customers can simplify NSX operations with intuitive UI and natural language search to quickly pinpoint issues, scale across multiple NSX managers, proactively detect misconfiguration errors and troubleshoot as well as get best practices recommendations

Automating configuration of your VMware SDDC networking and security using RESTful APIs through public and private endpoints

|Compliance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) protects European Union data subjects' fundamental right to privacy and the protection of personal data. It introduces robust requirements that will raise and harmonize standards for data protection, security, and compliance.|
VMware HCX is a SaaS service that provides application migration and infrastructure hybridity, and it enables large-scale, seamless, bi-directional workload portability between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS with VMware HCX. Migrations can be done live and in bulk (warm and cold) between various vSphere versions on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS. It creates multi-site, high-performance, secure, WAN-optimized interconnects that stretch networks, without having to change IP addresses and includes policy-based traffic engineering, intelligent routing and automated VPN set up. VMware HCX enables cloud onboarding without retrofitting source infrastructure supporting migration from vSphere 5.0+ to VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud Add-on Service provides unified visibility into infrastructure and application logs across VMware Cloud on AWS, AWS, and on-premises SDDC

VMware User Environment Manager offers personalization and dynamic policy configuration across any virtual, physical and cloud-based Windows desktop environment

Extend your existing on-premises DR strategy to the cloud by protecting some on-premises workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Site Recovery while simultaneously protecting other workloads managed by the same on-premises vCenter server to a secondary on-premises DR site

Reduce DR costs and operational complexity with support for fan-in and other multi-site topologies to pair a single VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC with multiple on-premises sites and/or other VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC(s) for disaster recovery purposes

Business continuity for mission-critical workloads: Expand and simplify existing disaster recovery operations with on-demand site protection built on proven VMware orchestration, automation and replication technologies – delivered by VMware Site Recovery, an add-on service. Based on industry leading, enterprise-grade recovery plan automation (VMware Site Recovery Manager) and native hypervisor-based replication capabilities (VMware vSphere® Replication) that are trusted by thousands of customers. Support site protection between on-premises to VMware Cloud on AWS or between two VMware Cloud on AWS environments running in separate AWS availability zones or across regions with a flexible architecture. Reduce secondary site costs, accelerate time to protection and simplify DR operations: - Lower capital costs by eliminating need for a secondary DR site and adopting granular, on-demand protection - Increase business resiliency by protecting Tier 1 apps as well as cost-effectively expanding protection to Tier 2/3 applications, without application re-architecture - Accelerate time to protection by removing complexities with the same operating environment from on-premises to cloud - Support site protection between on-premises to VMware Cloud on AWS or between two VMware Cloud on AWS environments running in separate AWS -- availability zones, or regions, with a flexible architecture - Streamline operations with automated orchestration and simple failover and failback built into a familiar management tool enhanced with an HTML5 user interface - Increase confidence and disaster readiness with non-disruptive, on-demand testing available anytime - Available as an add-on service
Accelerate time to protection by leveraging previously replicated base disks of virtual machines as the seed for new replication

Transport VMware Site Recovery replication traffic over AWS Direct Connect Private VIF

VMware Site Recovery is compatibile with multiple versions of vCenter Server, allowing you to protect sites running vCenter Server versions 6.7, 6.5, and 6.0U3

Optimize resource management of your DR cluster, by automating cluster scaling with Elastic DRS after a DR test or failover

vRealize Automation support for VMware Cloud on AWS provides automation of workload provisioning and deployment with unified control and management

VMware vRealize Code Stream support is enabled on VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware Cloud Marketplace enables customers to discover and deploy validated third-party solutions on VMware Cloud on AWS

Ability to spread a specific group of virtual machines across multiple hosts to prevent simultaneous failure of those virtual machines in the event that a host fails

Delivers live migration (VMware vSphere vMotion) of workloads between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS. This will require a customer to have vSphere 6.0U3 or above version on-premises, AWS Direct Connect (Private VIF) and NSX L2VPN. Customers can perform vMotion between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS using UI (which requires vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode to be connected) or using API and PowerCLI 2

vRealize Network Insight helps you fast-track application security and networking across private, hybrid and public. It accelerates micro-segmentation deployment, minimizes business risk during application migration, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments. This offer is also available as a SaaS Service, VMware vRealize Network Insight. Customers can use Network Insight to map app dependencies for micro-segmentation planning or application migration planning. Customers can also troubleshoot app connectivity issues across virtual, physical and multi-cloud network infrastructure. With support for VMware Cloud on AWS, customers gain visibility into configuration and flows, including all IPFIX flows. Paths can now be traced between VMs running in VMware Cloud on AWS, on-premises in vSphere, or with EC2 instances running in AWS. In addition, it provides complete overlay-underlay visibility and supports Netflow and sFlow. Customers can simplify NSX operations with intuitive UI and natural language search to quickly pinpoint issues, scale across multiple NSX managers, proactively detect misconfiguration errors and troubleshoot as well as get best practices recommendations

vRealize Operations support for VMware Cloud on AWS allows organizations to plan, manage and scale VMware SDDC across private cloud and VMware Cloud on AWS with intelligent operations, from applications to infrastructure

vRealize Orchestrator support for VMware Cloud on AWS simplifies the automation of complex IT tasks

VMware Cloud on AWS customers can now migrate their existing RedHat OpenShift subscription to their VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs version 1.12 or above. Starting with RedHat OpenShift 4.6, customers can enable their existing OpenShift subscriptions for VMware Cloud on AWS support and leverage the OpenShift on VMware Cloud on AWS deployment guide on bringing up an OpenShift 4.6 environment. Please see enabling subscription link and deployment guide link below under Resources

vSphere virtual machines on a failed host are automatically restarted on another host within the VMware SDDC cluster

VMware Tanzu Observability by VMware support for VMware Cloud on AWS allows you to visualize, alert upon, and troubleshoot applications running on VMware Cloud on AWS. It provides an open API platform supporting over 80 integrations and pre-packaged dashboards from all elements of your stack, spanning open-source, commercial, and custom data sources

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Milan), enabling the provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

"Runtime SDDC Scale up" feature enables customers to up-size their SDDCs to Large sizes after deployment as part of day-2 operations

This service dynamically adjusts the segment size during the TCP connection handshake between end points across the Network Extension, which optimizes the average packet size to reduce fragmentation and lower the overall packet rate

This service creates multiple tunnel flows for both Interconnect and Network Extension traffic to follow multiple paths across the network infrastructure from the source to the destination data centers. The service then intelligently forwards the traffic over the optimal path and dynamically switches between tunnels depending on traffic conditions

Enables customers to create more than one SDDC in an organization. Each SDDC must be connected to an AWS account


Zero RPO high availability is now available for enterprise applications virtualized on vSphere across AWS Availability Zones (AZ), leveraging multi-AZ stretched clusters. This enables you to: - Significantly improve your application's availability without needing to architect it into your application. - Stretch an SDDC cluster across two AWS AZs within a region, which means if an AZ goes down, it is simply treated as a vSphere HA event and the virtual machine is restarted in the other AZ. - 99.99% infrastructure availability provided by stretched clusters

You can enable the network encryption of the DR replication traffic data for new and existing replications to enhance data transfer security. When the network encryption is enabled for a replication, an agent on the source encrypts the replication data on the source ESXi host andit to the vSphere Replication appliance on the target site. The vSphere Replication server decrypts the data andit to the target datastore

Enabling smaller configuration purchase option at a low, predictable price for fast and flexible consumption. Ability to purchase a three host configuration of VMware Cloud on AWS. Dedicated single-tenant infrastructure delivered on AWS EC2 elastic bare-metal infrastructure

Mobility groups enable you to structure migration waves based on business requirements. You can assemble one or more VMs into logical sets to execute and monitor migrations as a group. When combined with the vRealize Network Insight integration (available as a separate license), mobility groups give you the flexibility to manage migrations for sets of VMs by application, network, pod, or other aspects of your environment

Customers can scale capacity by adding additional stretched clusters to a stretched cluster SDDC deployed on i3.metal instances. All clusters in the SDDC must be stretched clusters


Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

RAV uses a combination of VMware replication and vMotion technologies for large-scale, parallel migrations with no service interruption with the ability to specify a switchover window. It means you can now create a migration schedule during a large set of VMs (200 at this time), which can move live (without any downtime) to VMware Cloud on AWS at the scheduled migration window

Cost-effectively recover virtual machines with large storage capacity requirements using i3en.metal clusters as the recovery target

For VMs migrated using VMware HCX from a source location to VMware Cloud on AWS, this capability enables the cloud-side VMs on the HCX extended network to route traffic optimally through the cloud-side first-hop gateway instead of being routed through the source environment router. This helps you avoid a hairpin or trombone effect. Policy routes will allow control over which traffic is routed locally using the cloud gateway versus traffic through the source gateway

vCenter servers within an SDDC Group can now be linked together to manage all the resources from a single vSphere client interface. VM operations and migrations can be performed on the resources managed across all the vCenter Servers. Additionally, tags that are created on any of the vCenters within the group are automatically synced across all the other vCenters in the group

Multi-Edge SDDC capability enables customers to add network capacity for north-south network traffic. Customers can linearly scale bandwidth for migration and workload communication over VMware Transit Connect

Users can file a service request for a defect or to get help with a specific use case

VMware Cloud on AWS is now a RedHat Certified Cloud Service Provider for RedHat Enterprise Linux. This certification enables customers to bring their existing RHEL licenses to VMware Cloud on AWS with RedHat support. This certification only applies to RHEL and is not applicable to OpenShift. In order to enable your existing RHEL licenses for VMware Cloud on AWS, please follow the instructions in [here](httpsaccess.redhat.com/public-cloud) and Enable Subscriptions under Bring Your Own Golden Image

Customers can establish connectivity to on-premises/colo data centers via their AWS Direct Connect Gateway. VMware Transit Connect enables customers to centralize connectivity for SDDC Group to Direct Connect Gateway

Partition placement groups increase the availability of applications by placing hosts in different logical partitions that do not share the same underlying hardware. Partition placement groups automatically deploy hosts across as many different partitions as there are available within an AZ. Each partition within a placement group has its own set of racks, and each rack has its own network and power source. No two partitions within a placement group share the same racks, which allows for isolating host failures within an SDDC cluster

SDDC groups enable customers to organize SDDCs together and manage them as a single logical entity. This feature leverages VMware Transit Connect to connect SDDCs within a group

Per Microsoft’s 10/1/2019 licensing changes, VMware supplies Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server pre-packaged OVF instances for rapid deployment on VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware also supplies ISO binaries to allow a customer to create their own instances. Once licensed, customers can deploy an unlimited number of instances on the ESXi cluster by cluster basis

VMware Transit Connect provides network-level connectivity among SDDC group members. It leverages the AWS Transit Gateway (TGW) to enable any-to-any connectivity between SDDC group members in a single AWS region. It also enables network connectivity to AWS VPCs and on-premises/colo data centers (via a Direct Connect Gateway)

VMware NSX Advanced Firewall ensures Layer 7 security for SDDCs. It introduces NSX Distributed Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Identity Firewall, and Distributed Firewall with Layer 7 application identity and FQDN filtering capabilities to VMware Cloud on AWS

The new audit events for VMware Cloud Services dashboard and content pack in vRealize Log Insight Cloud enables VMware Cloud on AWS organization owners to monitor VMware Cloud Services audit events triggered by activity with user logins, user management, API Tokens, and OAuth applications

Now you can automate VM storage policy settings for VMware Cloud on AWS clusters to meet VMware Cloud on AWS SLA requirements

VMware vRealize Automation Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that enables self-service cloud environments. With vRealize Automation Cloud, customers can increase agility, productivity and efficiency through self-service automation, by reducing the complexity of their IT environment, streamlining IT processes and delivering a DevOps-ready automation platform. To enable frictionless onboarding to vRealize Automation Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS customers are now able to activate a vRealize Automation Cloud trial directly through the VMware Cloud on AWS console. This trial can be activated from any VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC by navigating to the SDDC’s Add-Ons tab. From the Add-Ons tab, customers can click activate, which will begin a 45-day free trial of the vRealize Automation Cloud service. After activation, all vRA Cloud service features and operations will be enabled from the vRA Cloud console


Now enterprises can take advantage of a smaller configuration purchase option at a low, predictable price for fast and flexible consumption for production environments. Organizations have the ability to purchase a two-host configuration of VMware Cloud on AWS and use dedicated single-tenant infrastructure delivered on AWS EC2 elastic bare-metal infrastructure

VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud enables customers to establish IPSec tunnel from VeloCloud SD-WAN Gateway to VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC

There is now support for jumbo frames (9000 byte MTU) on AWS Direct Connect. This enables customers to utilize jumbo frames to improve end to end performance for their Direct Connect traffic

VMware vRealize Operations Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that allows customer's infrastructure and operations teams to manage the enterprises' VMware Cloud environment, whether in the customer's own on-premises software-defined data center ("SDDC") or in the public cloud environment, such as VMware Cloud on AWS

Enables scaling of capacity by adding and removing hosts in VMware SDDC clusters

Automating VMware SDDC clusters scaling and resource optimization based on user requirements

Ability to inhibit DRS initiated vMotion for load balancing purposes. Useful for vMotion sensitive applications such as, large transactional databases, real-time transaction processing applications, etc

Minimum cluster size is 2 hosts. Customers can add capacity up to 16 hosts per cluster. Dedicated single-tenant infrastructure delivered on AWS i3 EC2 elastic bare-metal infrastructure

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant AWS EC2 I3.metal bare-metal hosts. Each host has 2 x Intel Xeon E5 2686 v4 @ 2.3GHz CPUs, 36 cores, 512GiB RAM and ~14 NVMe attached flash storage (3.6 TB cache plus 10.7 TB raw capacity tier). AWS infrastructure is based on the latest-generation Storage Optimized High I/O instances, featuring low-latency Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)-based SSDs

Failed hosts in a VMware SDDC are automatically detected by VMware and replaced with healthy hosts

Customers can now see all the historical notification events in their Activity Log tab. Example notification events include maintenance notifications, EDRS add host notifications, detailed SDDC upgrade notifications, DRaaS notifications, etc. This new feature would enable customers to audit historical notification events in the UI

Starting with Horizon release 2103, you can use a low-cost PostgreSQL database to log all events. This open-source database option is useful for the customers in reducing their Virtual Desktop Infrastructure TCO

Expand your DR strategy to include protection of your virtual machines running in VMware Cloud on AWS in addition to those running in your on-premises data center. Confidently migrate your most critical virtual machines to VMware Cloud on AWS with the knowledge that they can be easily protected to another AWS region using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

VMware integration with AWS Commerce Platform will enable multiple sellers of record within a single VMware Cloud on AWS defined organization (org). Customers who purchase from AWS can now have a VMware seller account that gives them the opportunity to purchase and run any cloud service within VMware that is compatible with VMware Cloud on AWS in a single org. The same is applicable when they have VMware as the seller and they want to add AWS as the new seller in the same org

The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information

With Tanzu Application Service support on VMware Cloud on AWS, you can now seamlessly migrate your existing Tanzu Application Service deployments to VMware Cloud on AWS. You can use your existing on-premises Tanzu Application Service licenses when running Tanzu Application Service on VMware Cloud on AWS

Virtual machine workloads can also access Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) for fully managed file service to scale the file-based storage automatically to petabyte scale with high availability and durability across multiple availability zones

Enabling automated deployment of VMware SDDCs in VMware Cloud on AWS using AWS CloudFormation templates
Deferred AWS account connection for Single-Host SDDCs, enabling provisioning of Single-Host SDDCs without connecting to an AWS account for up to 14 days

Enabling customers to delay AWS account linking for Single Host SDDC

The seed checkpoint feature provides recoverable migration progress with checkpoint seed data. With this capability, users have the option to retain replica disks at the target datastore if a migration is failed or canceled. Seed checkpoints enable VMware HCX to reuse the disks on the target for seeding replication data, avoiding the need to transfer all the data again


Customers can now access Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu through the VMC Console, where they can download and self-deploy the Application Transformer appliance into their VMware Cloud SDDC. Once deployed and configured, Administrators can now use Application Transformer to focus and accelerate their application modernization journey, enabling key workflows that remove the need to manually discover and analyze every workload, automatically building application topologies with all included application dependencies, and ultimately shortening the time needed for planning and execution. After discovering and analyzing the applications within the environment, Application Transformer also offers the ability to containerize a variety of processes and applications, generating OCI-compliance images and deployable Kubernetes YAML manifests, providing administrators the required tools to help their organization begin executing on re-platforming traditional applications

This capability helps with migration of non-VMware workloads (KVM and Hyper-V) to VMware Cloud on AWS
The Migration Solution experience delivers a prescriptive, intuitive and integrated workflow that expedites large-scale, data center-wide migrations to VMware Cloud on AWS. Customers are led through the steps of assessing, building and migrating workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS, with relevant tools such as VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud and VMware HCX and associated documentation such as on-boarding handbooks

vCenter Cloud Gateway is a new on-premises virtual appliance that delivers a single logical view and hybrid management of both on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS resources. It enables customers to manage VMware Cloud on AWS resources as extension of a on-premises data center. Customers can manage both on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS resources from on-premises using vCenter Cloud Gateway. Simplifed set up for improved user experience with integrated configuration of vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode as part of the Cloud Gateway installation. With Cloud Gateway, customers do not need to configure Active Directory (AD/LDAP) in the cloud vCenter server instance or enter their on-premises vCenter admin credentials

Simplifies hybrid resource management with a single inventory view between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS using vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode. Enhanced single logical view and hybrid management of resources by extending Hybrid Linked Mode to connect a VMware Cloud on AWS environment with multiple linked on-premises vCenter Server instances (external PSC topology)

Expanding Hybrid Linked Mode support for on-premises vCenter Server versions: 6.0u3 or above

Supports authentication with external identity providers for the vCenter Server on VMware Cloud on AWS. This will also enable Single Sign-On across the VMWare Cloud console and the vCenter Server running on VMWare Cloud on AWS

Improving application availability and performance by live migrating virtual machines between clusters in the same VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC

Enabling live migration (vMotion) of virtual machines between SDDCs deployed in different regions using VMware HCX

Enabling live migration (vMotion) to VMware Cloud on AWS by accelerating migration with vSphere replication

Delivers simple automation script that discovers your on-premises VM templates and uploads them into your SDDC

VMware HCX is a SaaS service that provides application migration and infrastructure hybridity, and it enables large-scale, seamless, bi-directional workload portability between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS with VMware HCX. Migrations can be done live and in bulk (warm and cold) between various vSphere versions on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS. It creates multi-site, high-performance, secure, WAN-optimized interconnects that stretch networks, without having to change IP addresses and includes policy-based traffic engineering, intelligent routing and automated VPN set up. VMware HCX enables cloud onboarding without retrofitting source infrastructure supporting migration from vSphere 5.0+ to VMware Cloud on AWS

Delivers live migration (VMware vSphere vMotion) of workloads between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS. This will require a customer to have vSphere 6.0U3 or above version on-premises, AWS Direct Connect (Private VIF) and NSX L2VPN. Customers can perform vMotion between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS using UI (which requires vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode to be connected) or using API and PowerCLI 2
This service dynamically adjusts the segment size during the TCP connection handshake between end points across the Network Extension, which optimizes the average packet size to reduce fragmentation and lower the overall packet rate

This service creates multiple tunnel flows for both Interconnect and Network Extension traffic to follow multiple paths across the network infrastructure from the source to the destination data centers. The service then intelligently forwards the traffic over the optimal path and dynamically switches between tunnels depending on traffic conditions

Mobility groups enable you to structure migration waves based on business requirements. You can assemble one or more VMs into logical sets to execute and monitor migrations as a group. When combined with the vRealize Network Insight integration (available as a separate license), mobility groups give you the flexibility to manage migrations for sets of VMs by application, network, pod, or other aspects of your environment

RAV uses a combination of VMware replication and vMotion technologies for large-scale, parallel migrations with no service interruption with the ability to specify a switchover window. It means you can now create a migration schedule during a large set of VMs (200 at this time), which can move live (without any downtime) to VMware Cloud on AWS at the scheduled migration window

For VMs migrated using VMware HCX from a source location to VMware Cloud on AWS, this capability enables the cloud-side VMs on the HCX extended network to route traffic optimally through the cloud-side first-hop gateway instead of being routed through the source environment router. This helps you avoid a hairpin or trombone effect. Policy routes will allow control over which traffic is routed locally using the cloud gateway versus traffic through the source gateway

Enables customers to migrate their workloads from non-VMware to VMware environments

VMware Cloud on AWS allows cloud-side VMs on the extended network to route traffic optimally through the cloud-side first-hop gateway instead of being routed through the source environment router. Hence, organizations can avoid traffic tromboning via policy based forwarding on the cloud router

VMware Cloud on AWS SKU-based transaction allows distributors to purchase on behalf of a designated reseller and end customer. This 2-tier partner commerce motion for VMware Cloud on AWS enables distributors to streamline the purchase of VMware Cloud on AWS hosts by SKU without purchasing upfront SPP credits or signing a contract. The purchased subscription is activated immediately upon the delivery of the email invitation to onboard the service. Please Note: End customers do NOT have self-service commerce capabilities and must request further VMware Cloud on AWS subscriptions from the reseller/distributor when they want to purchase them

VMware integration with AWS Commerce Platform will enable multiple sellers of record within a single VMware Cloud on AWS defined organization (org). Customers who purchase from AWS can now have a VMware seller account that gives them the opportunity to purchase and run any cloud service within VMware that is compatible with VMware Cloud on AWS in a single org. The same is applicable when they have VMware as the seller and they want to add AWS as the new seller in the same org

A new consumption model for VMware Cloud on AWS with which VMware will partition the hosts and provide smaller consumable slices, lowering the price and removing the complexity of the SDDC. A slice is a resource pool comprising of compute, memory, network and storage. You will be able to purchase and consume multiple slices per your requirements

VMware Cloud on AWS service level costs at SDDC level are distributed to resource level, so that users can perform showback to consumer entities, leveraging the perspective construct in CloudHealth. This granular costing methodology should also factor in amortized subscription cost of committed hosts

CloudHealth add-on provides summarized dashboard of VMware Cloud on AWS spend and inventory with ability to slice-and-dice VMware Cloud on AWS spend for past 13 months using various parameters and intervals. Usage reports provide granular visibility into service level usage for host, elastic IP and data transfer


You can now take advantage of updated content, which provides an overview of the VMware Tanzu services you can use with VMware Cloud today. These services include vSphere 7 with Tanzu (in Preview), Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, and Tanzu Mission Control. Customers who are part of the vSphere 7 with Tanzu preview on VMware Cloud, can enable a managed Kubernetes service through Launchpad. Customers with Application Modernization initiatives can take advantage of the VMware App Navigator content under Resources

Discover and learn about the virtual desktops solution via VMware Cloud Launchpad. The overview, journey, and resource pages will get you the information you need to start your journey with VMware Horizon

Start your vRealize Cloud Management journey from VMware Cloud launchpad. Leverage launchpad to discover and learn more about vRealize Cloud Management services

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i4i bare-metal hosts. Each host has 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory, and Up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. It offers high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and better security with always-on encryption

The VMware Cloud service will automatically scale up any stretched cluster on AZ failure. This capability is added free of charge and will attempt to maintain the Compute resources in the event of an AZ failure by adding non-billable hosts to the surviving AZ until the cluster has returned to its original host count. Upon AZ recovery the cluster will automatically Scale-In as soon as the burst capacity is no longer needed. This functionality is dependent on free capacity and therefore carries no guarantee

This protection extends to partial failures as well. Should an instance fail on a Stretched Cluster and Auto-Remediation is unable to recover or replace the host. The service will add the instance to the other AZ until a new host can be recovered in the original AZ. This capability is added free of charge and will attempt to maintain the Compute resources in the event of a partial AZ failure by adding non-billable hosts to the surviving AZ until the cluster has returned to its original host count


Flexible Subscription is a new subscription type for VMware Cloud on AWS now available. It is available for redemption in the VMware Cloud Console as part of the subscription purchasing flow. The benefit of flexible subscription is that it allows for customers to exchange their VMware Cloud on AWS flexible subscription for any new VMware Cloud on AWS term subscription. When requesting an exchange, the leftover value of the VMware Cloud on AWS flexible subscription will be used towards purchasing a new VMware Cloud on AWS full term subscription. Flexible subscription is available for i3.metal and i3en.metal instance type in all regions. Customers can exchange an instance type, region, or duration of their Flexible Subscription. Flexible subscriptions allow customers toto VMware Cloud on AWS but maintain flexibility when their business needs change

Users will be able to choose which notifications they receive and through which supported channels. This functionality, while also provided as an API, will be present in the VMC Console. These preferences are controlled at a user level, giving you the power to control which notifications you receive, reducing the noise often caused by different events that take place within one environment

VMware SDDCs can be deployed and resized hourly for on-demand granularity. Longer-term reservation of hosts gives you up to 50% cost saving compared to on-demand hosts consumed over equivalent period. Host Reservations are available in 1 or 3 year terms. You pay upfront, but maximize your savings

Tool to estimate VMware Cloud on AWS environment size and total cost of ownership (TCO), based on user inputs

Kickstart the VMware Cloud on AWS hybrid cloud experience with a time-bound, single-host configuration, at less than ½ the price of 2-host VMware Cloud on AWS offering. This new consumption option is designed for customers who want to prove the value of VMware Cloud on AWS in their environments before scaling to the production environment. Purchase hourly on-demand payable via US based credit cards or via VMware credit funds. Seamlessly scale-up at any time: At the completion of your 60 days time-bound offering, your single host SDDC will reset. However, you can easily scale-up to the minimum 2-host purchase and continue your cloud expansion without losing any of your data before the time period ends. Take advantage of capabilities that do not require multiple hosts within your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, such as cloud migration, evaluating disaster recovery as a service add-on, and hybrid linked mode

Customers can use existing VMware purchasing vehicles -- Subscription Purchasing Program (SPP) and Hybrid Purchasing Program (HPP) credits to pay for VMware Cloud on AWS

SDDC save and restore capability that reduces configuration time by allowing customers to save their VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC configurations upon deletion and re-deploy an SDDC using these saved configurations if they need to at a later date

Users can deploy a large SDDC at deployment time with large size instances of NSX edge and vCenter

Elastic DRS enables SDDC to scale out a cluster faster by adding hosts in parallel when CPU or memory thresholds are reached. Latest enhancement enables the cluster scale out faster by adding 12 hosts in parallel compared to 4 hosts previously supported

Customers can now see all the historical notification and activity events in their vRealize Log Insight Cloud instance. In other words, all the historical events that you see in the Activity Log tab would also be available via vRealize Log Insight Cloud

VMware Cloud on AWS has expanded the custom CPU core capability to allow customers to choose a different number of physical cores per host depending on the host instance type. Specifically, a customer can enable more cores on a host instance type with a larger number of physical cores

VMware SDDCs can be consumed on-demand or via a 1 or 3-year term commitment. Now we offer the option to pay for the 1 or 3-year commitment also via monthly installments. Continue to enjoy the savings of the 1 or 3-year term commitments without upfront payment. Please note that the monthly billing option is only available to qualified pay by invoice transactions directly through VMware or purchases from a Managed Service Provider (MSP) partner under the VMware Cloud Provider Program. Please contact your VMware sales or MSP partner representative for eligibility

Customers can now leverage a more flexible permissions model with vCenter Server in VMware Cloud on AWS. This capability enables cloud administrators to create custom roles and assign more granular permissions to users and groups. These permissions can be assigned to users and groups globally or for specific vCenter objects

The ability to select the number of physical cores per host during the time of provisioning, enables customers to optimize their environments for applications that are licensed per physical core

VMware Cloud on AWS now enables customers to select another host instance type, i.e. the i3EN.metal instance

Ability to spread a specific group of virtual machines across multiple hosts to prevent simultaneous failure of those virtual machines in the event that a host fails

"Runtime SDDC Scale up" feature enables customers to up-size their SDDCs to Large sizes after deployment as part of day-2 operations

Enables customers to create more than one SDDC in an organization. Each SDDC must be connected to an AWS account

Enabling smaller configuration purchase option at a low, predictable price for fast and flexible consumption. Ability to purchase a three host configuration of VMware Cloud on AWS. Dedicated single-tenant infrastructure delivered on AWS EC2 elastic bare-metal infrastructure

Customers can scale capacity by adding additional stretched clusters to a stretched cluster SDDC deployed on i3.metal instances. All clusters in the SDDC must be stretched clusters


vCenter servers within an SDDC Group can now be linked together to manage all the resources from a single vSphere client interface. VM operations and migrations can be performed on the resources managed across all the vCenter Servers. Additionally, tags that are created on any of the vCenters within the group are automatically synced across all the other vCenters in the group

Partition placement groups increase the availability of applications by placing hosts in different logical partitions that do not share the same underlying hardware. Partition placement groups automatically deploy hosts across as many different partitions as there are available within an AZ. Each partition within a placement group has its own set of racks, and each rack has its own network and power source. No two partitions within a placement group share the same racks, which allows for isolating host failures within an SDDC cluster

SDDC groups enable customers to organize SDDCs together and manage them as a single logical entity. This feature leverages VMware Transit Connect to connect SDDCs within a group

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

Now enterprises can take advantage of a smaller configuration purchase option at a low, predictable price for fast and flexible consumption for production environments. Organizations have the ability to purchase a two-host configuration of VMware Cloud on AWS and use dedicated single-tenant infrastructure delivered on AWS EC2 elastic bare-metal infrastructure

Enables scaling of capacity by adding and removing hosts in VMware SDDC clusters

Automating VMware SDDC clusters scaling and resource optimization based on user requirements

Ability to inhibit DRS initiated vMotion for load balancing purposes. Useful for vMotion sensitive applications such as, large transactional databases, real-time transaction processing applications, etc

Minimum cluster size is 2 hosts. Customers can add capacity up to 16 hosts per cluster. Dedicated single-tenant infrastructure delivered on AWS i3 EC2 elastic bare-metal infrastructure

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant AWS EC2 I3.metal bare-metal hosts. Each host has 2 x Intel Xeon E5 2686 v4 @ 2.3GHz CPUs, 36 cores, 512GiB RAM and ~14 NVMe attached flash storage (3.6 TB cache plus 10.7 TB raw capacity tier). AWS infrastructure is based on the latest-generation Storage Optimized High I/O instances, featuring low-latency Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)-based SSDs


Customers can now see all the historical notification events in their Activity Log tab. Example notification events include maintenance notifications, EDRS add host notifications, detailed SDDC upgrade notifications, DRaaS notifications, etc. This new feature would enable customers to audit historical notification events in the UI

Enabling Managed Service Providers to download bills in an AWS consistent csv format for their managed SDDCs via API

Enabling Managed Service Providers to download utilization metrics for their managed VMware SDDCs

As part of the developer center, users can now browse NSX-T APIs through API Explorer

Allows you to manage VMware Cloud on AWS users, roles, and permissions via RESTful API

Automates monitoring and reporting of VMware SDDC activity using the VMware Cloud on AWS Tasks API

Enabling download of VMware Cloud on AWS bill in a csv format consistent with AWS bills via RESTful API

The developer center is integrated into the VMware Cloud on AWS service console giving automation experts, DevOps engineers and developers a central portal to gain access to detailed API information, software development kits, code samples and command line interfaces. It is now easy to learn and execute the VMware Cloud on AWS Service RESTful APIs with the Interactive API Explorer. Customers can quickly integrate their workflows and partner solutions with VMware and community code samples for common development languages - The Open Source software development kits (SDK's) and links to getting started guides and documentation will offer a better developer experience to VMware Cloud features - Automation experts and DevOps engineers can seamlessly tie their business workflows into VMware Cloud with a selection of command line interfaces

Automating configuration of your VMware SDDC networking and security using RESTful APIs through public and private endpoints

Get even more flexibility in purchasing VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery with VM term subscriptions. VM subscriptions can be purchased anytime using the Global DR Console for 1- or 3-year durations

Add cyber resiliency to your business continuity plan by leveraging VMware Ransomware Recovery for predictable and secure recovery from ransomware attacks. This new VMware Cloud DR add-on builds on existing ransomware recovery capabilities by adding a dedicated ransomware recovery workflow, restore point selection assistance, pre-defined and custom VM isolation levels, and embedded NextGen AV with behavioral analysis, and vulnerability scanning

Customers can now protect up to 4000 VMs per SDDC using VMware Site Recovery

Activate recovery regions by deploying orchestrator instances and manage subscriptions through a simple global DR Console


Recover a specific set of files or folders in a VM from a replicated snapshot and download it locally. Use this recovered copy to manually restore it on the source VM on your protected site

Maximize your investment in VMware Cloud on AWS by using an existing SDDC created from VMware Cloud console, for recovery with VMware Cloud DR. Clusters and hosts added to VMware Cloud DR from VMware Cloud console are automatically recognized by VMware Cloud DR

Achieve faster failover times and failback sooner by recovering your virtual machines directly onthe Scale Out Cloud File System and skipping the storage migration to VMware Cloud on AWS.The virtual machine storage continues to be served from the cloud filesystem

Use AWS Direct Connect with public virtual interfaces (Public VIF) to carry replication, failback,and management traffic between your on-premises protected site and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery over a high-bandwidth, low-latency network connection

Expand your DR strategy to include protection of your virtual machines running in VMware Cloud on AWS in addition to those running in your on-premises data center. Confidently migrate your most critical virtual machines to VMware Cloud on AWS with the knowledge that they can be easily protected to another AWS Availability Zone in the same region using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

Enable customers to provide real-time ratings and comments on workflows and features so that valuable feedback can influence the future direction of the product
Visibility into overall health of DR environment to be able to maintain DR posture
Get additional REST APIs to monitor DR operations, set up protection and recover your workloads and automate the capabilities to configure and manage DR at scale

Protect larger environments by replicating more than 6000 virtual machines to a single AWS region in a VMware Cloud organization

Protect vSphere workloads running on Google Cloud VMware Engine. Workloads will continue to be recovered to VMware Cloud on AWS

Confidently protect your most critical virtual machines running on VMware Cloud on AWS with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery by configuring protection schedules with Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for as low as 15 minutes so that the data loss from unforeseen DR events is minimized

Protect vSphere workloads running on VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts. Workloads will continue to be recovered to VMware Cloud on AWS

Have a better pulse on your DR SLAs by receiving email notifications for any SLA violations, including RTO and RPO violations

Receive guidance and best practices on all security relating to networking, data encryption, role-based access control, authentication, and more

Use Transit Connect to carry replication, failback, and management traffic between your on-premises protected site and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

Scale-up and protect your workloads across multiple VMware Cloud organizations

Protect vSphere workloads running on VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. Workloads will continue to be recovered to VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware Site Recovery received the highest level of PCI certification (PCI DSS Level 1 provider status). By being certified as PCI DSS compliant level 1 service provider, VMware Site Recovery service operates in compliance with PCI DSS compliant security measures and controls, thereby potentially addressing the needs of a broad range of customers and workloads that need to store, process, or transmit cardholder or sensitive authentication data
Continuous export of log of user actions, replication/recovery events, and site health to various log analysis and monitoring solutions via vRealize Log Insight Cloud

Use VMware Transit Connect to get high-speed and resilient connections between VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs across different AWS regions for DR replication traffic

VMware Cloud DR is a Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Trusted Cloud Provider and registered as a Security, Trust, Assurance and Risk (STAR) Level One service. CSA is an organization dedicated to defining best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. STAR Registry is aaccessibly registry that documents the security and privacy controls

Protection groups now support quiesced snapshots, which ensure that a snapshot represents a consistent state of the guest file systems of VMs in the group. From a quiesced snapshots, you can restore the VM and its application to the same state as before when a snapshot was taken. VMware Tools are required. Not supported with high-frequency snapshots

Use public RESTFUL APIs to set up protection, recover workloads, and manage the lifecycle of VMware Cloud DR instances

Confidently protect your most critical virtual machines running on VMware Cloud on AWS with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery by configuring protection schedules with Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) as low as 30 minutes so that the risk of data loss from unforeseen DR events is minimized

Accelerate your Disaster Recovery implementation with step-by-step guidance, relevant tools and a rich set of resources using VMware Cloud Launchpad. Click on "Learn More" under "Disaster Recovery" to navigate to launch your DR journey. This experience is available to everyone without requiring login to VMware Cloud


Protect larger environments by replicating up to 2500 virtual machines to a single AWS region in a VMware Cloud organization. You might need to split 2500 VMs across multiple VMware Cloud DR file systems for larger protected capacity scale. See VMware Configuration Maximum tool for operational scale limits of VMware Cloud DR

Deploy the Cloud File System for replication and recovery using a self-service wizard in the VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery UI

Cyber Essentials is a UK Government-backed, industry-supported scheme to help organizations protect themselves against common online threats. Certification of Cyber Essentials will demonstrate our commitment to preventing and protecting against the vast majority of common cyber attacks

Try out VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery as a "pilot" before committing to a term subscription. Pilot deployments are charged at a fixed hourly rate and include 5 TiB of protected capacity and 25 protected virtual machines. Any usage beyond these limits will incur charges at the applicable per-TiB overage and per-VM on-demand rates. Once you are done with your evaluation, create a 1-year or 3-year committed term subscription to seamlessly convert this to a standard deployment and continue using the service

Replication performance has been optimized such that replication throughput is up to 3X higher when using high bandwidth and low latency connectivity between the protected and recovery sites. This capability requires at least vSphere 7.0 Update 2 and vSphere Replication 8.4 at the recovery site

Re-protect your virtual machines significantly faster after a planned recovery. The re-protection operation is especially quick when run shortly after the planned recovery such that the delta between the data on the source and recovery sites is not large. VMware Site Recovery now automatically starts tracking changes on the recovered virtual machine after failover. Only those changes are then replicated to the original protected site when re-protect is run and checksum comparisons can be completely avoided. This capability requires at least vSphere 7.0 Update 2 and vSphere Replication 8.4 in both sites

System & Organization Control (SOC) Reports are independent, third-party examination reports that demonstrate how VMware Cloud DR achieves key compliance controls and objectives to meet SOC 2, Type 1 requirements. The purpose of these reports is to help you and your auditors understand the controls established to support operations and compliance

System & Organization Control (SOC) Reports are independent, third-party examination reports that demonstrate how VMware Cloud DR achieves key compliance controls and objectives to meet SOC 2, Type 2 requirements. The purpose of these reports is to demonstrate the design and testing of SOC 2 controls over a period of time


Confidently protect your most critical virtual machines running on your on-premises datacenter with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery by configuring protection schedules with Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) as low as 30 minutes so that the risk of data loss from unforeseen DR events is minimized. VMware vCenter Server and ESXi on the source site should be upgraded to 7.0 Update 2c-vcdr to enable 30-minute RPOs

Efficiently and easily deploy and manage multiple instances of VMware Cloud DR within thesame VMware Cloud organization and cloud region while continuing to use a single SaaS-simple cloud-based management console to administer and configure all these instances. Recover to multiple VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs within the organization for increased scale and performance benefits

Further lower DR costs by using a two host SDDC cluster as a "pilot light" with VMware Cloud DR. Recover smaller sets of virtual machines cost-effectively by only creating a two host SDDC

Meet your PCI DSS compliance obligations for virtual machines protected by using VMware Cloud DR, under a shared responsibility model to maximize flexibility and control. Benefit from enhancements in security controls and operational processes undertaken by VMware to make VMware Cloud DR a PCI DSS 3.2.1 Level 1 Service Provider, the highest level of assessment available. Further reinforce your compliance status with VMware Cloud DR's end-to-end and daily data integrity checks, continuous DR health checks, and audit-ready, detailed DR reports. In the event of a DR incident, the protected virtual machines can be recovered to a PCI compliant environment in VMware Cloud on AWS

Benefit from various enhancements and optimizations of VMware Cloud DR's scale-out cloud file system and achieve production-grade performance on your most critical virtual machines recovered on the VMware Cloud DR live mount datastore

Protect and recover your vSphere virtual machines using VMware Cloud DR in additional regions

VMware Site Recovery now supports seamless resizing of virtual disks of protected virtual machines without disrupting the ongoing replications

Import and/or export configuration data of the replications created in vSphere Replication for use cases such as migrating vSphere Replication configuration to a different host

Take advantage of significantly discounted pricing for the VMware Site Recovery add-on by committing to 1-year or 3-year subscription terms


VMware Site Recovery can be consumed on-demand or via a 1 or 3-year term commitment. Now we offer the option to pay for the 1 or 3-year commitment via monthly installments. Continue to enjoy the savings of the 1 or 3-year term commitments without upfront payment. Please note that the monthly billing option is only available to qualified pay by invoice transactions directly through VMware or purchases from a Managed Service Provider (MSP) partner under the VMware Cloud Provider Program. Please contact your VMware sales or MSP partner representative for eligibility

Cyber Essentials is a UK Government-backed, industry-supported scheme to help organizations protect themselves against common online threats. Certification of Cyber Essentials demonstrates our commitment to preventing and protecting against the vast majority of common cyber attacks

Now you can configure the retention of replicas from multiple points in time

Extend your existing on-premises DR strategy to the cloud by protecting some on-premises workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Site Recovery while simultaneously protecting other workloads managed by the same on-premises vCenter server to a secondary on-premises DR site

Reduce DR costs and operational complexity with support for fan-in and other multi-site topologies to pair a single VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC with multiple on-premises sites and/or other VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC(s) for disaster recovery purposes

Business continuity for mission-critical workloads: Expand and simplify existing disaster recovery operations with on-demand site protection built on proven VMware orchestration, automation and replication technologies – delivered by VMware Site Recovery, an add-on service. Based on industry leading, enterprise-grade recovery plan automation (VMware Site Recovery Manager) and native hypervisor-based replication capabilities (VMware vSphere® Replication) that are trusted by thousands of customers. Support site protection between on-premises to VMware Cloud on AWS or between two VMware Cloud on AWS environments running in separate AWS availability zones or across regions with a flexible architecture. Reduce secondary site costs, accelerate time to protection and simplify DR operations: - Lower capital costs by eliminating need for a secondary DR site and adopting granular, on-demand protection - Increase business resiliency by protecting Tier 1 apps as well as cost-effectively expanding protection to Tier 2/3 applications, without application re-architecture - Accelerate time to protection by removing complexities with the same operating environment from on-premises to cloud - Support site protection between on-premises to VMware Cloud on AWS or between two VMware Cloud on AWS environments running in separate AWS -- availability zones, or regions, with a flexible architecture - Streamline operations with automated orchestration and simple failover and failback built into a familiar management tool enhanced with an HTML5 user interface - Increase confidence and disaster readiness with non-disruptive, on-demand testing available anytime - Available as an add-on service
Accelerate time to protection by leveraging previously replicated base disks of virtual machines as the seed for new replication

Transport VMware Site Recovery replication traffic over AWS Direct Connect Private VIF

VMware Site Recovery is compatibile with multiple versions of vCenter Server, allowing you to protect sites running vCenter Server versions 6.7, 6.5, and 6.0U3

Optimize resource management of your DR cluster, by automating cluster scaling with Elastic DRS after a DR test or failover

You can enable the network encryption of the DR replication traffic data for new and existing replications to enhance data transfer security. When the network encryption is enabled for a replication, an agent on the source encrypts the replication data on the source ESXi host andit to the vSphere Replication appliance on the target site. The vSphere Replication server decrypts the data andit to the target datastore

Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

Cost-effectively recover virtual machines with large storage capacity requirements using i3en.metal clusters as the recovery target


Expand your DR strategy to include protection of your virtual machines running in VMware Cloud on AWS in addition to those running in your on-premises data center. Confidently migrate your most critical virtual machines to VMware Cloud on AWS with the knowledge that they can be easily protected to another AWS region using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

VMware Cloud on AWS has successfully completed the IRAP cloud security assessment. The IRAP Cloud Security Assessment demonstrates our compliance against the Australian Information Security Manual (ISM) and Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) and shows VMware Cloud on AWS’s suitability to handle Australian Government data
The OSPAR report demonstrates VMware Cloud on AWS compliance against the outsourcing guidelines prescribed for by the Association of Banks in Singapore

Information System Security Management and Assessment Program (ISMAP) is a compliance program mandated by the Japanese authorities to work with the public sector agencies in Japan

System & Organization Control (SOC) Reports are independent third-party examination reports that demonstrate how VMware Cloud on AWS achieves key compliance controls and objectives to meet SOC 2, Type 2 requirements. The purpose of these reports is to demonstrate the design and testing of SOC 2 controls over a period of time

ISO 27017 provides guidance on the information security aspects of cloud computing, recommending the implementation of cloud-specific information security controls that supplement the guidance of the ISO 27002 and ISO 27001 standards

ISO/IEC 27001:2013 specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system within the context of the organization

ISO 27018 is a code of practice that focuses on protection of personal data in the cloud. It is based on ISO information security standard 27002 and provides implementation guidance on ISO 27002 controls applicable to public cloud Personally Identifiable Information (PII). It also provides a set of additional controls and associated guidance intended to address public cloud PII protection requirements not addressed by the existing ISO 27002 control set

G-Cloud is a framework agreement published by the UK Crown Commercial Service. VMware Cloud on AWS is listed on the G-Cloud digital marketplace. Check out the digital marketplace portal below for a detailed overview of our service, support, relevant pricing documents, terms and conditions, and sales contacts


The 3 Guidelines from 3 Ministries is a collection of security and compliance guidelines published by the three ministries in Japan - Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. In Japan, medical institutions that store medical data such as patient records and medical images in an external facility such as a public cloud should align with the requirements specified in these guidelines

FISC (The Center for Financial Industry Information Systems) is an organization under the Japanese Minister of Finance. FISC issued security guidelines that prescribe security measures for financial institutions in Japan. VMware Cloud on AWS aligns with FISC guidelines

European Banking Authority (EBA) outsourcing guidelines prescribe the governance framework and guidelines for financial institutions within the scope of the EBA's mandate when outsourcing internal functions to service providers (including cloud outsourcing)

The Fourteen Cloud Security Principles are a set of cloud security guidelines prescribed by the UK National Cyber Security Center (NCSC). VMware Cloud on AWS aligns with Cloud Security Principles and the objectives of these principles as part of NCSC Cloud Security Guidance

Completing Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ). CAIQ provides industry-accepted ways to document what security controls exist in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings

|Compliance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) protects European Union data subjects' fundamental right to privacy and the protection of personal data. It introduces robust requirements that will raise and harmonize standards for data protection, security, and compliance.|
The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information

This feature enables VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC Groups to peer their native Transit Gateways (TGW) with VMware Transit Connect, simplifying access between VMware Cloud on AWS and AWS resources across accounts and across regions, while retaining control over connectivity in the respective environments

VMware Cloud on AWS customers can utilize NSX Traceflow to inspect the path of a packet from source to destination in the SDDC. Traceflow also provides visibility for external communication over VMware Transit Connect

The existing legacy view is deprecating. The new dashboard view provides a summary of your networking status with improved performance

Introduces the VMware NSX Manager user interface with a streamlined layout and separate tabs for Networking, Security and Troubleshooting


Customers can use IPv6 for their VMware Cloud on AWS workload VMs to communicate within and outside the SDDC

VMware Transit Connect supports SDDC Group connectivity to Transit VPC. Customers can manually configure routes pointing to a VPC attachment in the same region

VMware Transit Connect now provides network connectivity among SDDC Group members in multiple AWS regions

NSX Advanced Firewall introduces NSX Distributed IDS/IPS for VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs. NSX Distributed IDS/IPSin detecting attempts at exploiting vulnerabilities in applications

Enabling deployment of scalable applications requiring a load balancer powered by VMware NSX

Support for DFW IPFIX that enables the vRNI solution within VMware Cloud on AWS. The vRNI solution provides support for operationalizing DFW interms in planning the day to day monitoring and troubleshooting

This enables the customer to utilize one Direct Connect link with VPN as Standby. To use this, Direct Connect Private VIF can be configured with IPSEC VPN as Standby for non-ESXi and non-vMotion traffic

Using two factor authentication systems to login to the VMware Cloud on AWS Console (console.cloud.vmware.com)

Using Active Directory as a federated authentication provider for VMware Cloud on AWS Console login (console.cloud.vmware.com)

Equal Cost Multi Pathing (ECMP) enables customers to scale the bandwidth across multiple links. With this release, multiple route-based IPSEC VPN tunnels can be used with ECMP to provide additional bandwidth and connectivity resiliency to on-premises, AWS VPCs and to AWS TGW

DHCP Relay can be configured within VMware Cloud on AWS so DHCP requests can be forwarded to an external/3rd party DHCP server. Customers can use the native NSX DHCP capabilities in VMware Cloud on AWS or use DHCP Relay to leverage an advanced external/3rd party DHCP server

Improves set-up speed and consistency with usability improvements for Layer 3 IPSec VPN set-up through an easy to use configuration template

Simplifying the creation of the required firewall rules in VMware Cloud on AWS Console, to allow communication across on-premises networks and VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC components. For example, automated configuration of the firewall rules allow necessary ports for vCenter, SRM, and other service communication for Hybrid Linked Mode and VMware Site Recovery use cases

Multi-Edge SDDC capability enables customers to add network capacity for north-south network traffic. Customers can linearly scale bandwidth for migration and workload communication over VMware Transit Connect

Customers can establish connectivity to on-premises/colo data centers via their AWS Direct Connect Gateway. VMware Transit Connect enables customers to centralize connectivity for SDDC Group to Direct Connect Gateway

VMware Transit Connect provides network-level connectivity among SDDC group members. It leverages the AWS Transit Gateway (TGW) to enable any-to-any connectivity between SDDC group members in a single AWS region. It also enables network connectivity to AWS VPCs and on-premises/colo data centers (via a Direct Connect Gateway)

VMware NSX Advanced Firewall ensures Layer 7 security for SDDCs. It introduces NSX Distributed Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Identity Firewall, and Distributed Firewall with Layer 7 application identity and FQDN filtering capabilities to VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud enables customers to establish IPSec tunnel from VeloCloud SD-WAN Gateway to VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC

There is now support for jumbo frames (9000 byte MTU) on AWS Direct Connect. This enables customers to utilize jumbo frames to improve end to end performance for their Direct Connect traffic

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka), enabling the provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Africa (Cape Town), enabling the provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Zurich), enabling the provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Customers will now have the ability to view all the VMs with SLA non-compliant policies in one place and will have an easy path to remediate these VMs to an SLA compliant policy. They will have the flexibility to choose which VMs to remediate and can seamlessly do so with a single button click

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service is now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Ireland), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (London). Enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region


VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Frankfurt), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Canada (Central), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS South America (Sao Paulo), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS US East (Ohio), enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Paris), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS US East (N. Virginia), enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS US West (N. California), enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS US West (Oregon), enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Milan), enabling the provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Stretch cluster is now supporting a 2 host configuration across multi-AZ. A customer who wants a 2-host configuration can choose to deploy it across AZs

Stretch cluster is now supporting a 4-host configuration across multi-AZ. A customer who wants a 4-host configuration can choose to deploy it across AZs

VMware Cloud on AWS customers can now migrate their existing RedHat OpenShift subscription to their VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs version 1.12 or above. Starting with RedHat OpenShift 4.6, customers can enable their existing OpenShift subscriptions for VMware Cloud on AWS support and leverage the OpenShift on VMware Cloud on AWS deployment guide on bringing up an OpenShift 4.6 environment. Please see enabling subscription link and deployment guide link below under Resources

vSphere virtual machines on a failed host are automatically restarted on another host within the VMware SDDC cluster


Zero RPO high availability is now available for enterprise applications virtualized on vSphere across AWS Availability Zones (AZ), leveraging multi-AZ stretched clusters. This enables you to: - Significantly improve your application's availability without needing to architect it into your application. - Stretch an SDDC cluster across two AWS AZs within a region, which means if an AZ goes down, it is simply treated as a vSphere HA event and the virtual machine is restarted in the other AZ. - 99.99% infrastructure availability provided by stretched clusters

Failed hosts in a VMware SDDC are automatically detected by VMware and replaced with healthy hosts

Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

A fully managed, low cost, high performance external NFS datastore that can be attached to VMware Cloud on AWS host. It is built on NetApp’s ONTAP file system that provides VMware Cloud on AWS customers up to 192TiB Flash Capacity and 2PiB of data storage depending on storage efficiency savings depending on storage efficiency

Customers will now have the ability to view all the VMs with SLA non-compliant policies in one place and will have an easy path to remediate these VMs to an SLA compliant policy. They will have the flexibility to choose which VMs to remediate and can seamlessly do so with a single button click

Attach external storage to a SDDC managed by the Managed Service Provider (MSP). The SDDC has three NFS datastores that are backed by the Managed Service Provider (MSP) cloud storage. This capability is currently offered through Faction as the Managed Service Provider (MSP)

Supporting SQL Clusters in Active Passive with shared disk configuration via SCSI 3 PR. This enables customers to cut down on the SQL Server licensing costs, by paying only for active SQL nodes

VMware Cloud on AWS now provides automated space reclamation support with TRIM and SCSI UNMAP to reclaim previously allocated storage as free space

Customers can provision and scale file shares alongside block volumes on vSAN datastore on VMware Cloud on AWS

Integrated data protection for your VMware Cloud on AWS workloads with VM-level protection policies

Now you can automate VM storage policy settings for VMware Cloud on AWS clusters to meet VMware Cloud on AWS SLA requirements

Reducing configuration time by persisting VMware SDDC networking configuration as a template that can be used to deploy a new VMware SDDC

Enabling customers to select a particular day and time of the week for VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC maintenance

Enabling customers to see a particular day and time of the week for VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC maintenance


Deliver in-service guided walk-throughs for on-boarding and common configuration tasks to accelerate time to value

Customers can now run their business-critical operations on VMware Cloud on AWS. This means high-value technical support is very critical for delivering operational efficiency, risk reduction, and business continuity. VMware's new In-Product Support gives customers a truly unique and effortless support experience to meet the dynamic needs of their digital business. VMware's In-Product Support provides access to support channels and resources, including: **Intelligent Search Surfaces popular content based on the user's location and contextual usage in the product. Powerful search relevant content across VMware Knowledge Base Articles, Product Docs & Community Posts to answer questions without contacting support. **Chat with VMware Support Quickly address questions or issues with highly skilled VMware Support Engineers and Customer Support Representatives. Continue to search and interact with the product interface while chatting with the support. **Support Requests (SRs For situations that go beyond chat, customers can create and manage SRs or our Support Engineers can create SRs on their behalf via chat without leaving the product. **Ask the Community Engage and pose questions to actively moderated communities backed by passionate VMware Support Engineers and VMware Experts around the globe. **Service Health Review live status of VMware Cloud Services and receive important service notifications

Enables customers to get fast responses to any question, product help, log defects, or get use case help

Contextual Help delivers in-service page sensitive help menu, with searchable list of questions

Users can file a service request for a defect or to get help with a specific use case

Telco Cloud Platform Public Cloud is a new Public Cloud platform that caters directly to Telecommunications Service Providers. This platform builds on top of existing Telco-class platforms VMware Cloud on AWS, Telco Cloud Platform and Telco Cloud Infrastructure, catering to Telco Requirements. VMware Telco Cloud Platform – Public Cloud is a cloud-smart solution, tightly integrated with VMware Cloud. The joint solution allows our customers to extend their on-premises telcobuilt with VMware Telco Cloud Platform. This first release is available on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC Version 16.2

Microsoft introduced new minimum virtual hardware requirements with the Windows 11 operating system. Microsoft requires a vTPM device to be present during Windows 11 virtual machine installation and upgrades. In SDDC version 1.19, VMware Cloud on AWS is introducing a new feature to enable adding a Virtual Trusted Platform Module together with the vSphere Native Key Provider in vCenter

Customers can opt-in to deploy new SDDCs with 1.19. This feature is available as PREVIEW and will be enabled on a request basis. Please contact your account team if you are interested in having this feature enabled for a new 1.19 SDDC

Enables customers to run development and test and non-business critical workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS

Per Microsoft’s 10/1/2019 licensing changes, VMware supplies Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server pre-packaged OVF instances for rapid deployment on VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware also supplies ISO binaries to allow a customer to create their own instances. Once licensed, customers can deploy an unlimited number of instances on the ESXi cluster by cluster basis

Starting with Horizon release 2103, you can use a low-cost PostgreSQL database to log all events. This open-source database option is useful for the customers in reducing their Virtual Desktop Infrastructure TCO
With enterprise federation, enterprises can use their corporate identities and credentials and link their VMware ID (My VMware) accounts to both log in to VMware Cloud Services and manage access to services/organizations/features within VMware Cloud services. With the new enhancement, customers will get self-service experience to setup enterprise federation so that any customer can setup federation without the need of engagement with VMware

VMware Cloud on AWS enables customers to add a vTPM device to a virtual machine. Customers can add a vTPM device to virtual machines running Windows Server 2008 and later, Windows desktop 7 and later, or Linux. To support vTPMs in VMware Cloud on AWS, SDDCs created using version 1.19 and later will automatically include the provisioning of vSphere Native Key Provider in vCenter. Customers can opt-in to deploy new SDDCs with 1.19. This feature is available as PREVIEW and will be enabled on a request basis. Please contact your account team if you are interested in having this feature enabled for a new 1.19 SDDC

Extend on-premises Horizon Pods to directly manage virtual desktop capacity in VMware Cloud on AWS by leveraging the Horizon Remote Agent feature. No need to create a separate Horizon Pod on VMware Cloud on AWS

Provides capabilities such as networking limit-based alerts and intents, alert categories, alert types, setting max limits, current usage, criticality, description, fix recommendations, and "VMware Cloud on AWS Limit" alert types


These alerts will allow the VMware Cloud on AWS users in their VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC planning and troubleshooting efforts

Users will be able to create VMware Cloud on AWS networking intents in vRealize Network Insight for properly designing and managing their VMware Cloud on AWS network

Provide the option for select VMware Cloud on AWS customers to 'Activate' vRealize Operations Cloud from within VMware Cloud console within the 'Add-Ons' section in the VMware Cloud console UI. When customer 'activates' vRealize Operations Cloud, all the integration tasks needed will be programmatically performed for the user in the background such as:
VMware Cloud on AWS dashboards allow you to track the capacity, cost, and inventory overviews of the VMware SDDCs. You can also track the monitoring of virtual machines and the utilization and performance of these SDDCs. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well.

End-to-End VM to VM MPLS path visibility for VMware Cloud on AWS Direct Connect using vRealize Network Insight
Flow Based Application Discovery with Machine Learning with improved scale for number of VMs and application scale supported
Cloud Zone Insights helps maintain visibility of VMware Cloud on AWS consumption and capacity for the cloud zones that users have defined. Combining the power of vRealize Operations Cloud with vRealize Automation Cloud, Cloud Zone Insights bring users the information they need and the actions they need to take on the same platform to tighten up hybrid cloud operations

The Cloud Management Assessment (CMA) is the next generation assessment offered by vRealize Operations Cloud. CMA aligns with VMware Cloud on AWS and helps customers prepare for a move to VMware Cloud on AWS as well as guides them to how to best manage VMware Cloud on AWS, including assessing capacity needed, performance optimization and ROI

With vRealize Operations Cloud and vRealize Operations, VMware Cloud on AWS customers can now measure, alert and report on the key configuration maximums for more predictable costing of their SDDC environments. vRealize Operations Cloud provides a rich set of configuration maximum metrics with limits (both hard limits and soft limits), calculates the provisioned resources and alerts if some of these key configuration limits are being breached. Keys areas of configuration maximums covered with this feature are: - Organization Maximums - SDDC Maximums - vCenter Maximums - vSAN Maximums


It helps manage user teams more efficiently with Property Groups. Property groups let users templatize their VMware Cloud on AWS environment properties and reuse them for new catalog requests within a VMware Cloud Template
VMware Cloud Partner Navigator support for vRealize Network Insight Cloud so MSPs can utilize a multi-tenant version for network visibility of VMware Cloud on AWS VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud, now available through VMware Cloud Partner Navigator, takes a flexible and modular SaaS approach to delivering network visibility and analytics. This enables partners to help optimize and secure their tenant’s network infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The cloud-based solution provides a rapid path to monetizing new professional service offerings at scale—like security, network and application assessments—and new ongoing services, like quarterly security assessments or self-service assessments, reducing the time to market

It reduces the exposure of sensitive data by keeping them encrypted in the database. vRealize Automation Cloud helps users create and encrypt secret variables for VMware Cloud on AWS and consume them as part of VMware Cloud Templates or extensibility workflows (e.g., with ABX or vRealize Orchestrator)

Traditional Horizon Instant Clone maintains internal VMs, called parentVMs, for ease of operation. These parentVMs take up previous memory on each host, which adds to the cost of deployment. With smart provisioning, Horizon can now intelligently choose to provision instant clones with or without parentVMs, depending on the situation. Administrators also have the freedom to choose to provision all instant clones without parentVMs

AppVolumes makes it easy to deliver, update, manage and monitor applications and users across virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and published application environments

VMware Horizon support for VMware Cloud on AWS enables customers to: - Easily add and extend on-premises desktop services without buying additional hardware - Co-locate virtual desktops or published application (remote desktop session) hosts near latency-sensitive applications in the cloud - Leverage elastic capacity as a cost-effective way to protect on-premises Horizon deployments or temporary needs

Horizon Instant Clone Support is available for VMware Cloud on AWS. Customers can create clones from a base image in seconds to rapidly scale virtual desktop and app deployments


VMware Horizon now offers full clone support for VMware Cloud on AWS. Customers can now rapidly scale Horizon desktops and apps to VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware Horizon for VMware Cloud on AWS delivers a seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud for virtual desktops and applications. It combines the enterprise capabilities of VMware Cloud on AWS, with the market-leading capabilities of VMware Horizon - for a simple, secure and scalable solution. Now, customers can easily extend desktop services to address on-demand capacity, protection of desktop workloads and AWS cloud co-location for latency-sensitive applications without buying additional data center resources

VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency

Monitor heath, availability, capacity, and cost of Kubernetes clusters on VMC with vRealize Operations Cloud. With enhanced dashboards, reports, and alerts content, gain full-stack visibility on VMware Cloud, upstream Kubernetes to SDDC and Orgs

New out-of-the-box dashboards to cover seven key operational use cases: availability, performance, compliance, capacity, cost, configuration and inventory

Application performance monitoring (APM) tool integration with AppDynamics, Datadog, Dynatrace, and NewRelic to observe the performance, availability, security, and user experience of software applications

With 1-click, enable near real-time monitoring at a 20 second granularity for better observability of metrics and events in vRealize Operations Cloud. Persist data for up to 3-days to ensure historical evidence and observe data through dashboards and charts in near real-time

Avoid integration overhead and ensure operational consistency with third-party tools. VMware Cloud on AWS has a broadening ISV technology ecosystem support with support for categories across data protection, DevOps, cloud migration, security and more. Technology partners validate that their solutions work with VMware Cloud on AWS. For a complete list of technology partners who have validated that their solution works with VMware Cloud on AWS, please visit [VMware Solution Exchange](httpsmarketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/featured?product=3450,3429)
Monitor the health and performance of Horizon virtual desktops running on VMware Cloud on AWS

Improved visibility of network relationships and metrics to monitor the health of network components to better correlate with potential infrastructure issues

Pricing API’s for integration with vRealize Automation Cloud to enable showback and chargeback use cases

As a native solution to vRealize Operations Cloud, the management pack for AWS utilizes AWS Cloudwatch to collect operations data for AWS services including EC2, EBS, ASG, EMG, and others to provide pre-configured dashboards, alerts, and reports. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

Manage your VMware Cloud on AWS instances in vRealize Operations Cloud using the CSP API token for authorization and communication. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

Generate VMware Cloud on AWS assessment reports and compliance using the vSphere Security hardening guidelines, PCI, HIPPA, FISMA, ISO (and more) benchmarks to ensure compliance of VMware on cloud infrastructure from applications to objects that need to be compliant as per the cloud infrastructure rules for virtual machines. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

VMware Cloud Assembly is a multi-cloud, declarative blueprint orchestration and automation solution that enables infrastructure code for expedited infrastructure consumption and application delivery, while reducing manual effort and the need for cloud specific knowledge. The ability to share content and deployments among project teams also increases collaboration and agility

VMware Code Stream Add-on Service provides release automation and continuous delivery to enable frequent, reliable releases of application and IT code for development and operations teams

With vRealize Operations Cloud, you can determine how many hosts will be needed and the potential cost of a new VMware Cloud on AWS environment based on existing VMs in your environment, or for net new VMs that will be provisioned for the first time in VMware Cloud on AWS. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

Workload optimization provides support for moving virtual compute resources and their file systems dynamically across datastore clusters. Using workload optimization, you can rebalance virtual machines and storage across clusters, relieving demand on an overloaded individual cluster, and maintaining or improving cluster performance. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

VMware Service Broker Add-on Service is an aggregator of services across multiple cloud platforms, as well as, a single access point for consumption (catalog) with guardrails for a range of services, including Cloud Assembly, Kubernetes Helm charts, AWS Cloud Formation and vRealize Orchestrator workflows


VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud is a SaaS service that can help you fast-track application security and networking across private, hybrid and public. It accelerates micro-segmentation deployment, minimizes business risk during application migration, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments. It is also available as an on-premises perpetual product, VMware vRealize Network Insight. Customers use vRealize Network Insight Cloud to map app dependencies for micro-segmentation planning or application migration planning. Customers can troubleshoot app connectivity issues across virtual, physical and multi-cloud network infrastructure. Support for VMware Cloud on AWS, provides visibility into configuration and flows, including all IPFIX flows. Paths can now be traced between VMs running in VMware Cloud on AWS, on premises in vSphere, or with EC2 instances running in AWS. In addition, it provides complete overlay-underlay visibility and supports Netflow and sFlow. It includes integration with leading firewall and networking vendors such as F5, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco ASA, Cisco ACI, and more. Customers can simplify NSX operations with intuitive UI and natural language search to quickly pinpoint issues, scale across multiple NSX managers, proactively detect misconfiguration errors and troubleshoot as well as get best practices recommendations

VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud Add-on Service provides unified visibility into infrastructure and application logs across VMware Cloud on AWS, AWS, and on-premises SDDC

VMware User Environment Manager offers personalization and dynamic policy configuration across any virtual, physical and cloud-based Windows desktop environment

vRealize Automation support for VMware Cloud on AWS provides automation of workload provisioning and deployment with unified control and management

VMware vRealize Code Stream support is enabled on VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware Cloud Marketplace enables customers to discover and deploy validated third-party solutions on VMware Cloud on AWS

vRealize Network Insight helps you fast-track application security and networking across private, hybrid and public. It accelerates micro-segmentation deployment, minimizes business risk during application migration, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments. This offer is also available as a SaaS Service, VMware vRealize Network Insight. Customers can use Network Insight to map app dependencies for micro-segmentation planning or application migration planning. Customers can also troubleshoot app connectivity issues across virtual, physical and multi-cloud network infrastructure. With support for VMware Cloud on AWS, customers gain visibility into configuration and flows, including all IPFIX flows. Paths can now be traced between VMs running in VMware Cloud on AWS, on-premises in vSphere, or with EC2 instances running in AWS. In addition, it provides complete overlay-underlay visibility and supports Netflow and sFlow. Customers can simplify NSX operations with intuitive UI and natural language search to quickly pinpoint issues, scale across multiple NSX managers, proactively detect misconfiguration errors and troubleshoot as well as get best practices recommendations

vRealize Operations support for VMware Cloud on AWS allows organizations to plan, manage and scale VMware SDDC across private cloud and VMware Cloud on AWS with intelligent operations, from applications to infrastructure

vSphere Client plugins can be enabled on VMware Cloud on AWS, allowing VMware Cloud Admin customers to register VMware Cloud-certified vSphere Client plugins securely to the VMware Cloud SDDC(s) they manage

vRealize Orchestrator support for VMware Cloud on AWS simplifies the automation of complex IT tasks


The Plugin Marketplace and the integration with Cloud Marketplace is available in the vSphere Client interface, showing available plugins, lifecycle management, notification on available updates

VMware Cloud on AWS is now a RedHat Certified Cloud Service Provider for RedHat Enterprise Linux. This certification enables customers to bring their existing RHEL licenses to VMware Cloud on AWS with RedHat support. This certification only applies to RHEL and is not applicable to OpenShift. In order to enable your existing RHEL licenses for VMware Cloud on AWS, please follow the instructions in [here](httpsaccess.redhat.com/public-cloud) and Enable Subscriptions under Bring Your Own Golden Image

The new audit events for VMware Cloud Services dashboard and content pack in vRealize Log Insight Cloud enables VMware Cloud on AWS organization owners to monitor VMware Cloud Services audit events triggered by activity with user logins, user management, API Tokens, and OAuth applications

VMware vRealize Automation Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that enables self-service cloud environments. With vRealize Automation Cloud, customers can increase agility, productivity and efficiency through self-service automation, by reducing the complexity of their IT environment, streamlining IT processes and delivering a DevOps-ready automation platform. To enable frictionless onboarding to vRealize Automation Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS customers are now able to activate a vRealize Automation Cloud trial directly through the VMware Cloud on AWS console. This trial can be activated from any VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC by navigating to the SDDC’s Add-Ons tab. From the Add-Ons tab, customers can click activate, which will begin a 45-day free trial of the vRealize Automation Cloud service. After activation, all vRA Cloud service features and operations will be enabled from the vRA Cloud console

VMware vRealize Operations Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that allows customer's infrastructure and operations teams to manage the enterprises' VMware Cloud environment, whether in the customer's own on-premises software-defined data center ("SDDC") or in the public cloud environment, such as VMware Cloud on AWS

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid is an enterprise-ready Kubernetes runtime that packages open source technologies and automation tooling to help you get up and running quickly with a scalable, multi-cluster Kubernetes environment. Now with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid support, customers can deploy, scale and manage Kubernetes clusters on VMware Cloud on AWS


This feature supports the forwarding of VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC vRLIC logs to forward to either Europe (Frankfurt) or Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS regions if those SDDCs are deployed to those regions

VMware Cloud's Tanzu services is a full-managed and integrated offering containing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Tanzu Mission Control Essentials where Customers are responsible for providing and maintaining a basic collection of networks, which are used for deploying both Tanzu infrastructure as well as workloads. VMware is responsible for the management of the Tanzu infrastructure in addition to SDDC software components and the IaaS infrastructure resources. As part of this managed service, VMware also provides tighter integrations in the VMC Console as well as Tanzu Mission Control Essentials

Customers can now enable Tanzu services on existing VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs upgraded to version 1.16 and above. There is no longer a need to create new SDDCs or new Clusters, allowing customers to leverage their existing environments

VMware Tanzu Mission Control simplifies deployment and operation of Kubernetes, centralizing management and governance for many clusters and teams across multiple environments. With Tanzu Kubernetes Grid integrated with Tanzu Mission Control on VMware Cloud on AWS, customers can easily deploy and run Kubernetes on VMware Cloud on AWS with consistent operations and management across clusters and applications to support their infrastructure and app modernization

Cloud Native Storage is now utilized on VMware Cloud on AWS with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Plus

With support for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, customers can monitor Kubernetes clusters on VMware vRealize Operations Cloud using the VMware vRealize Operations management pack for container monitoring. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well where customers need to go to marketplace and download and configure the management pack from marketplace
VMware Tanzu Observability by VMware support for VMware Cloud on AWS allows you to visualize, alert upon, and troubleshoot applications running on VMware Cloud on AWS. It provides an open API platform supporting over 80 integrations and pre-packaged dashboards from all elements of your stack, spanning open-source, commercial, and custom data sources

With Tanzu Application Service support on VMware Cloud on AWS, you can now seamlessly migrate your existing Tanzu Application Service deployments to VMware Cloud on AWS. You can use your existing on-premises Tanzu Application Service licenses when running Tanzu Application Service on VMware Cloud on AWS

Get even more flexibility in purchasing VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery with VM term subscriptions. VM subscriptions can be purchased anytime using the Global DR Console for 1- or 3-year durations

Add cyber resiliency to your business continuity plan by leveraging VMware Ransomware Recovery for predictable and secure recovery from ransomware attacks. This new VMware Cloud DR add-on builds on existing ransomware recovery capabilities by adding a dedicated ransomware recovery workflow, restore point selection assistance, pre-defined and custom VM isolation levels, and embedded NextGen AV with behavioral analysis, and vulnerability scanning

Telco Cloud Platform Public Cloud is a new Public Cloud platform that caters directly to Telecommunications Service Providers. This platform builds on top of existing Telco-class platforms VMware Cloud on AWS, Telco Cloud Platform and Telco Cloud Infrastructure, catering to Telco Requirements. VMware Telco Cloud Platform – Public Cloud is a cloud-smart solution, tightly integrated with VMware Cloud. The joint solution allows our customers to extend their on-premises telcobuilt with VMware Telco Cloud Platform. This first release is available on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC Version 16.2

This feature enables VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC Groups to peer their native Transit Gateways (TGW) with VMware Transit Connect, simplifying access between VMware Cloud on AWS and AWS resources across accounts and across regions, while retaining control over connectivity in the respective environments

VMware Cloud on AWS customers can utilize NSX Traceflow to inspect the path of a packet from source to destination in the SDDC. Traceflow also provides visibility for external communication over VMware Transit Connect

Customers can now protect up to 4000 VMs per SDDC using VMware Site Recovery

VMware Cloud's Tanzu services is a full-managed and integrated offering containing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Tanzu Mission Control Essentials where Customers are responsible for providing and maintaining a basic collection of networks, which are used for deploying both Tanzu infrastructure as well as workloads. VMware is responsible for the management of the Tanzu infrastructure in addition to SDDC software components and the IaaS infrastructure resources. As part of this managed service, VMware also provides tighter integrations in the VMC Console as well as Tanzu Mission Control Essentials

Activate recovery regions by deploying orchestrator instances and manage subscriptions through a simple global DR Console


Recover a specific set of files or folders in a VM from a replicated snapshot and download it locally. Use this recovered copy to manually restore it on the source VM on your protected site

The seed checkpoint feature provides recoverable migration progress with checkpoint seed data. With this capability, users have the option to retain replica disks at the target datastore if a migration is failed or canceled. Seed checkpoints enable VMware HCX to reuse the disks on the target for seeding replication data, avoiding the need to transfer all the data again

Maximize your investment in VMware Cloud on AWS by using an existing SDDC created from VMware Cloud console, for recovery with VMware Cloud DR. Clusters and hosts added to VMware Cloud DR from VMware Cloud console are automatically recognized by VMware Cloud DR

With enterprise federation, enterprises can use their corporate identities and credentials and link their VMware ID (My VMware) accounts to both log in to VMware Cloud Services and manage access to services/organizations/features within VMware Cloud services. With the new enhancement, customers will get self-service experience to setup enterprise federation so that any customer can setup federation without the need of engagement with VMware

Achieve faster failover times and failback sooner by recovering your virtual machines directly onthe Scale Out Cloud File System and skipping the storage migration to VMware Cloud on AWS.The virtual machine storage continues to be served from the cloud filesystem

Use AWS Direct Connect with public virtual interfaces (Public VIF) to carry replication, failback,and management traffic between your on-premises protected site and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery over a high-bandwidth, low-latency network connection

Expand your DR strategy to include protection of your virtual machines running in VMware Cloud on AWS in addition to those running in your on-premises data center. Confidently migrate your most critical virtual machines to VMware Cloud on AWS with the knowledge that they can be easily protected to another AWS Availability Zone in the same region using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

Enable customers to provide real-time ratings and comments on workflows and features so that valuable feedback can influence the future direction of the product
Visibility into overall health of DR environment to be able to maintain DR posture
Get additional REST APIs to monitor DR operations, set up protection and recover your workloads and automate the capabilities to configure and manage DR at scale


A fully managed, low cost, high performance external NFS datastore that can be attached to VMware Cloud on AWS host. It is built on NetApp’s ONTAP file system that provides VMware Cloud on AWS customers up to 192TiB Flash Capacity and 2PiB of data storage depending on storage efficiency savings depending on storage efficiency

A new consumption model for VMware Cloud on AWS with which VMware will partition the hosts and provide smaller consumable slices, lowering the price and removing the complexity of the SDDC. A slice is a resource pool comprising of compute, memory, network and storage. You will be able to purchase and consume multiple slices per your requirements

VMware Cloud on AWS enables customers to add a vTPM device to a virtual machine. Customers can add a vTPM device to virtual machines running Windows Server 2008 and later, Windows desktop 7 and later, or Linux. To support vTPMs in VMware Cloud on AWS, SDDCs created using version 1.19 and later will automatically include the provisioning of vSphere Native Key Provider in vCenter. Customers can opt-in to deploy new SDDCs with 1.19. This feature is available as PREVIEW and will be enabled on a request basis. Please contact your account team if you are interested in having this feature enabled for a new 1.19 SDDC

Microsoft introduced new minimum virtual hardware requirements with the Windows 11 operating system. Microsoft requires a vTPM device to be present during Windows 11 virtual machine installation and upgrades. In SDDC version 1.19, VMware Cloud on AWS is introducing a new feature to enable adding a Virtual Trusted Platform Module together with the vSphere Native Key Provider in vCenter

Customers can opt-in to deploy new SDDCs with 1.19. This feature is available as PREVIEW and will be enabled on a request basis. Please contact your account team if you are interested in having this feature enabled for a new 1.19 SDDC

Protect larger environments by replicating more than 6000 virtual machines to a single AWS region in a VMware Cloud organization

Protect vSphere workloads running on Google Cloud VMware Engine. Workloads will continue to be recovered to VMware Cloud on AWS

Confidently protect your most critical virtual machines running on VMware Cloud on AWS with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery by configuring protection schedules with Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for as low as 15 minutes so that the data loss from unforeseen DR events is minimized

Protect vSphere workloads running on VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts. Workloads will continue to be recovered to VMware Cloud on AWS

Have a better pulse on your DR SLAs by receiving email notifications for any SLA violations, including RTO and RPO violations


Receive guidance and best practices on all security relating to networking, data encryption, role-based access control, authentication, and more

Use Transit Connect to carry replication, failback, and management traffic between your on-premises protected site and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

Scale-up and protect your workloads across multiple VMware Cloud organizations

The existing legacy view is deprecating. The new dashboard view provides a summary of your networking status with improved performance

Protect vSphere workloads running on VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. Workloads will continue to be recovered to VMware Cloud on AWS
Customers can now enable Tanzu services on existing VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs upgraded to version 1.16 and above. There is no longer a need to create new SDDCs or new Clusters, allowing customers to leverage their existing environments

Customers can now access Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu through the VMC Console, where they can download and self-deploy the Application Transformer appliance into their VMware Cloud SDDC. Once deployed and configured, Administrators can now use Application Transformer to focus and accelerate their application modernization journey, enabling key workflows that remove the need to manually discover and analyze every workload, automatically building application topologies with all included application dependencies, and ultimately shortening the time needed for planning and execution. After discovering and analyzing the applications within the environment, Application Transformer also offers the ability to containerize a variety of processes and applications, generating OCI-compliance images and deployable Kubernetes YAML manifests, providing administrators the required tools to help their organization begin executing on re-platforming traditional applications

VMware Cloud on AWS service level costs at SDDC level are distributed to resource level, so that users can perform showback to consumer entities, leveraging the perspective construct in CloudHealth. This granular costing methodology should also factor in amortized subscription cost of committed hosts

VMware Site Recovery received the highest level of PCI certification (PCI DSS Level 1 provider status). By being certified as PCI DSS compliant level 1 service provider, VMware Site Recovery service operates in compliance with PCI DSS compliant security measures and controls, thereby potentially addressing the needs of a broad range of customers and workloads that need to store, process, or transmit cardholder or sensitive authentication data
Introduces the VMware NSX Manager user interface with a streamlined layout and separate tabs for Networking, Security and Troubleshooting

CloudHealth add-on provides summarized dashboard of VMware Cloud on AWS spend and inventory with ability to slice-and-dice VMware Cloud on AWS spend for past 13 months using various parameters and intervals. Usage reports provide granular visibility into service level usage for host, elastic IP and data transfer

Continuous export of log of user actions, replication/recovery events, and site health to various log analysis and monitoring solutions via vRealize Log Insight Cloud

Use VMware Transit Connect to get high-speed and resilient connections between VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs across different AWS regions for DR replication traffic

VMware Cloud DR is a Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Trusted Cloud Provider and registered as a Security, Trust, Assurance and Risk (STAR) Level One service. CSA is an organization dedicated to defining best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. STAR Registry is aaccessibly registry that documents the security and privacy controls

Protect vSphere workloads running on Azure VMware solution. Workloads will continue to be recovered to VMware Cloud on AWS

Extend on-premises Horizon Pods to directly manage virtual desktop capacity in VMware Cloud on AWS by leveraging the Horizon Remote Agent feature. No need to create a separate Horizon Pod on VMware Cloud on AWS

Protection groups now support quiesced snapshots, which ensure that a snapshot represents a consistent state of the guest file systems of VMs in the group. From a quiesced snapshots, you can restore the VM and its application to the same state as before when a snapshot was taken. VMware Tools are required. Not supported with high-frequency snapshots

Use public RESTFUL APIs to set up protection, recover workloads, and manage the lifecycle of VMware Cloud DR instances

The VMware Cloud service will automatically scale up any stretched cluster on AZ failure. This capability is added free of charge and will attempt to maintain the Compute resources in the event of an AZ failure by adding non-billable hosts to the surviving AZ until the cluster has returned to its original host count. Upon AZ recovery the cluster will automatically Scale-In as soon as the burst capacity is no longer needed. This functionality is dependent on free capacity and therefore carries no guarantee


This protection extends to partial failures as well. Should an instance fail on a Stretched Cluster and Auto-Remediation is unable to recover or replace the host. The service will add the instance to the other AZ until a new host can be recovered in the original AZ. This capability is added free of charge and will attempt to maintain the Compute resources in the event of a partial AZ failure by adding non-billable hosts to the surviving AZ until the cluster has returned to its original host count

You can now take advantage of updated content, which provides an overview of the VMware Tanzu services you can use with VMware Cloud today. These services include vSphere 7 with Tanzu (in Preview), Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, and Tanzu Mission Control. Customers who are part of the vSphere 7 with Tanzu preview on VMware Cloud, can enable a managed Kubernetes service through Launchpad. Customers with Application Modernization initiatives can take advantage of the VMware App Navigator content under Resources

Discover and learn about the virtual desktops solution via VMware Cloud Launchpad. The overview, journey, and resource pages will get you the information you need to start your journey with VMware Horizon

Start your vRealize Cloud Management journey from VMware Cloud launchpad. Leverage launchpad to discover and learn more about vRealize Cloud Management services

Stretch cluster is now supporting a 2 host configuration across multi-AZ. A customer who wants a 2-host configuration can choose to deploy it across AZs

Confidently protect your most critical virtual machines running on VMware Cloud on AWS with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery by configuring protection schedules with Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) as low as 30 minutes so that the risk of data loss from unforeseen DR events is minimized

This capability helps with migration of non-VMware workloads (KVM and Hyper-V) to VMware Cloud on AWS
Accelerate your Disaster Recovery implementation with step-by-step guidance, relevant tools and a rich set of resources using VMware Cloud Launchpad. Click on "Learn More" under "Disaster Recovery" to navigate to launch your DR journey. This experience is available to everyone without requiring login to VMware Cloud

Protect larger environments by replicating up to 2500 virtual machines to a single AWS region in a VMware Cloud organization. You might need to split 2500 VMs across multiple VMware Cloud DR file systems for larger protected capacity scale. See VMware Configuration Maximum tool for operational scale limits of VMware Cloud DR


Flexible Subscription is a new subscription type for VMware Cloud on AWS now available. It is available for redemption in the VMware Cloud Console as part of the subscription purchasing flow. The benefit of flexible subscription is that it allows for customers to exchange their VMware Cloud on AWS flexible subscription for any new VMware Cloud on AWS term subscription. When requesting an exchange, the leftover value of the VMware Cloud on AWS flexible subscription will be used towards purchasing a new VMware Cloud on AWS full term subscription. Flexible subscription is available for i3.metal and i3en.metal instance type in all regions. Customers can exchange an instance type, region, or duration of their Flexible Subscription. Flexible subscriptions allow customers toto VMware Cloud on AWS but maintain flexibility when their business needs change

Deploy the Cloud File System for replication and recovery using a self-service wizard in the VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery UI

Customers can use IPv6 for their VMware Cloud on AWS workload VMs to communicate within and outside the SDDC

Cyber Essentials is a UK Government-backed, industry-supported scheme to help organizations protect themselves against common online threats. Certification of Cyber Essentials will demonstrate our commitment to preventing and protecting against the vast majority of common cyber attacks

Users will be able to choose which notifications they receive and through which supported channels. This functionality, while also provided as an API, will be present in the VMC Console. These preferences are controlled at a user level, giving you the power to control which notifications you receive, reducing the noise often caused by different events that take place within one environment

Try out VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery as a "pilot" before committing to a term subscription. Pilot deployments are charged at a fixed hourly rate and include 5 TiB of protected capacity and 25 protected virtual machines. Any usage beyond these limits will incur charges at the applicable per-TiB overage and per-VM on-demand rates. Once you are done with your evaluation, create a 1-year or 3-year committed term subscription to seamlessly convert this to a standard deployment and continue using the service

VMware Transit Connect supports SDDC Group connectivity to Transit VPC. Customers can manually configure routes pointing to a VPC attachment in the same region

Replication performance has been optimized such that replication throughput is up to 3X higher when using high bandwidth and low latency connectivity between the protected and recovery sites. This capability requires at least vSphere 7.0 Update 2 and vSphere Replication 8.4 at the recovery site

Re-protect your virtual machines significantly faster after a planned recovery. The re-protection operation is especially quick when run shortly after the planned recovery such that the delta between the data on the source and recovery sites is not large. VMware Site Recovery now automatically starts tracking changes on the recovered virtual machine after failover. Only those changes are then replicated to the original protected site when re-protect is run and checksum comparisons can be completely avoided. This capability requires at least vSphere 7.0 Update 2 and vSphere Replication 8.4 in both sites


System & Organization Control (SOC) Reports are independent third-party examination reports that demonstrate how VMware Cloud on AWS achieves key compliance controls and objectives to meet SOC 2, Type 2 requirements. The purpose of these reports is to demonstrate the design and testing of SOC 2 controls over a period of time

VMware Transit Connect now provides network connectivity among SDDC Group members in multiple AWS regions

VMware Cloud on AWS dashboards allow you to track the capacity, cost, and inventory overviews of the VMware SDDCs. You can also track the monitoring of virtual machines and the utilization and performance of these SDDCs. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well.

System & Organization Control (SOC) Reports are independent, third-party examination reports that demonstrate how VMware Cloud DR achieves key compliance controls and objectives to meet SOC 2, Type 1 requirements. The purpose of these reports is to help you and your auditors understand the controls established to support operations and compliance

System & Organization Control (SOC) Reports are independent, third-party examination reports that demonstrate how VMware Cloud DR achieves key compliance controls and objectives to meet SOC 2, Type 2 requirements. The purpose of these reports is to demonstrate the design and testing of SOC 2 controls over a period of time

NSX Advanced Firewall introduces NSX Distributed IDS/IPS for VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs. NSX Distributed IDS/IPSin detecting attempts at exploiting vulnerabilities in applications

ISO 27017 provides guidance on the information security aspects of cloud computing, recommending the implementation of cloud-specific information security controls that supplement the guidance of the ISO 27002 and ISO 27001 standards

The Migration Solution experience delivers a prescriptive, intuitive and integrated workflow that expedites large-scale, data center-wide migrations to VMware Cloud on AWS. Customers are led through the steps of assessing, building and migrating workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS, with relevant tools such as VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud and VMware HCX and associated documentation such as on-boarding handbooks

VMware SDDCs can be deployed and resized hourly for on-demand granularity. Longer-term reservation of hosts gives you up to 50% cost saving compared to on-demand hosts consumed over equivalent period. Host Reservations are available in 1 or 3 year terms. You pay upfront, but maximize your savings

Enabling Managed Service Providers to download bills in an AWS consistent csv format for their managed SDDCs via API

ISO/IEC 27001:2013 specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system within the context of the organization

ISO 27018 is a code of practice that focuses on protection of personal data in the cloud. It is based on ISO information security standard 27002 and provides implementation guidance on ISO 27002 controls applicable to public cloud Personally Identifiable Information (PII). It also provides a set of additional controls and associated guidance intended to address public cloud PII protection requirements not addressed by the existing ISO 27002 control set

VMware Tanzu Mission Control simplifies deployment and operation of Kubernetes, centralizing management and governance for many clusters and teams across multiple environments. With Tanzu Kubernetes Grid integrated with Tanzu Mission Control on VMware Cloud on AWS, customers can easily deploy and run Kubernetes on VMware Cloud on AWS with consistent operations and management across clusters and applications to support their infrastructure and app modernization

Tool to estimate VMware Cloud on AWS environment size and total cost of ownership (TCO), based on user inputs

Enabling Managed Service Providers to download utilization metrics for their managed VMware SDDCs

Kickstart the VMware Cloud on AWS hybrid cloud experience with a time-bound, single-host configuration, at less than ½ the price of 2-host VMware Cloud on AWS offering. This new consumption option is designed for customers who want to prove the value of VMware Cloud on AWS in their environments before scaling to the production environment. Purchase hourly on-demand payable via US based credit cards or via VMware credit funds. Seamlessly scale-up at any time: At the completion of your 60 days time-bound offering, your single host SDDC will reset. However, you can easily scale-up to the minimum 2-host purchase and continue your cloud expansion without losing any of your data before the time period ends. Take advantage of capabilities that do not require multiple hosts within your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, such as cloud migration, evaluating disaster recovery as a service add-on, and hybrid linked mode

As part of the developer center, users can now browse NSX-T APIs through API Explorer

Attach external storage to a SDDC managed by the Managed Service Provider (MSP). The SDDC has three NFS datastores that are backed by the Managed Service Provider (MSP) cloud storage. This capability is currently offered through Faction as the Managed Service Provider (MSP)

Enabling deployment of scalable applications requiring a load balancer powered by VMware NSX

Cloud Zone Insights helps maintain visibility of VMware Cloud on AWS consumption and capacity for the cloud zones that users have defined. Combining the power of vRealize Operations Cloud with vRealize Automation Cloud, Cloud Zone Insights bring users the information they need and the actions they need to take on the same platform to tighten up hybrid cloud operations


The Cloud Management Assessment (CMA) is the next generation assessment offered by vRealize Operations Cloud. CMA aligns with VMware Cloud on AWS and helps customers prepare for a move to VMware Cloud on AWS as well as guides them to how to best manage VMware Cloud on AWS, including assessing capacity needed, performance optimization and ROI

Supporting SQL Clusters in Active Passive with shared disk configuration via SCSI 3 PR. This enables customers to cut down on the SQL Server licensing costs, by paying only for active SQL nodes

With vRealize Operations Cloud and vRealize Operations, VMware Cloud on AWS customers can now measure, alert and report on the key configuration maximums for more predictable costing of their SDDC environments. vRealize Operations Cloud provides a rich set of configuration maximum metrics with limits (both hard limits and soft limits), calculates the provisioned resources and alerts if some of these key configuration limits are being breached. Keys areas of configuration maximums covered with this feature are: - Organization Maximums - SDDC Maximums - vCenter Maximums - vSAN Maximums

It helps manage user teams more efficiently with Property Groups. Property groups let users templatize their VMware Cloud on AWS environment properties and reuse them for new catalog requests within a VMware Cloud Template
vCenter Cloud Gateway is a new on-premises virtual appliance that delivers a single logical view and hybrid management of both on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS resources. It enables customers to manage VMware Cloud on AWS resources as extension of a on-premises data center. Customers can manage both on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS resources from on-premises using vCenter Cloud Gateway. Simplifed set up for improved user experience with integrated configuration of vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode as part of the Cloud Gateway installation. With Cloud Gateway, customers do not need to configure Active Directory (AD/LDAP) in the cloud vCenter server instance or enter their on-premises vCenter admin credentials

Simplifies hybrid resource management with a single inventory view between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS using vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode. Enhanced single logical view and hybrid management of resources by extending Hybrid Linked Mode to connect a VMware Cloud on AWS environment with multiple linked on-premises vCenter Server instances (external PSC topology)

Support for DFW IPFIX that enables the vRNI solution within VMware Cloud on AWS. The vRNI solution provides support for operationalizing DFW interms in planning the day to day monitoring and troubleshooting

Customers can use existing VMware purchasing vehicles -- Subscription Purchasing Program (SPP) and Hybrid Purchasing Program (HPP) credits to pay for VMware Cloud on AWS


Stretch cluster is now supporting a 4-host configuration across multi-AZ. A customer who wants a 4-host configuration can choose to deploy it across AZs

It reduces the exposure of sensitive data by keeping them encrypted in the database. vRealize Automation Cloud helps users create and encrypt secret variables for VMware Cloud on AWS and consume them as part of VMware Cloud Templates or extensibility workflows (e.g., with ABX or vRealize Orchestrator)

Expanding Hybrid Linked Mode support for on-premises vCenter Server versions: 6.0u3 or above

Supports authentication with external identity providers for the vCenter Server on VMware Cloud on AWS. This will also enable Single Sign-On across the VMWare Cloud console and the vCenter Server running on VMWare Cloud on AWS

Allows you to manage VMware Cloud on AWS users, roles, and permissions via RESTful API

Traditional Horizon Instant Clone maintains internal VMs, called parentVMs, for ease of operation. These parentVMs take up previous memory on each host, which adds to the cost of deployment. With smart provisioning, Horizon can now intelligently choose to provision instant clones with or without parentVMs, depending on the situation. Administrators also have the freedom to choose to provision all instant clones without parentVMs

Reducing configuration time by persisting VMware SDDC networking configuration as a template that can be used to deploy a new VMware SDDC

Improving application availability and performance by live migrating virtual machines between clusters in the same VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC

SDDC save and restore capability that reduces configuration time by allowing customers to save their VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC configurations upon deletion and re-deploy an SDDC using these saved configurations if they need to at a later date

Confidently protect your most critical virtual machines running on your on-premises datacenter with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery by configuring protection schedules with Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) as low as 30 minutes so that the risk of data loss from unforeseen DR events is minimized. VMware vCenter Server and ESXi on the source site should be upgraded to 7.0 Update 2c-vcdr to enable 30-minute RPOs

AppVolumes makes it easy to deliver, update, manage and monitor applications and users across virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and published application environments


Efficiently and easily deploy and manage multiple instances of VMware Cloud DR within thesame VMware Cloud organization and cloud region while continuing to use a single SaaS-simple cloud-based management console to administer and configure all these instances. Recover to multiple VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs within the organization for increased scale and performance benefits

Enabling live migration (vMotion) of virtual machines between SDDCs deployed in different regions using VMware HCX

Further lower DR costs by using a two host SDDC cluster as a "pilot light" with VMware Cloud DR. Recover smaller sets of virtual machines cost-effectively by only creating a two host SDDC

Purchase VMware Cloud DR through your preferred VMware Cloud on AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP) to benefit from your existing relationship with the MSP and leverage their unique value-added managed services in conjunction with VMware Cloud DR and VMware Cloud on AWS

Enabling customers to select a particular day and time of the week for VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC maintenance

Meet your PCI DSS compliance obligations for virtual machines protected by using VMware Cloud DR, under a shared responsibility model to maximize flexibility and control. Benefit from enhancements in security controls and operational processes undertaken by VMware to make VMware Cloud DR a PCI DSS 3.2.1 Level 1 Service Provider, the highest level of assessment available. Further reinforce your compliance status with VMware Cloud DR's end-to-end and daily data integrity checks, continuous DR health checks, and audit-ready, detailed DR reports. In the event of a DR incident, the protected virtual machines can be recovered to a PCI compliant environment in VMware Cloud on AWS

Automates monitoring and reporting of VMware SDDC activity using the VMware Cloud on AWS Tasks API

Benefit from various enhancements and optimizations of VMware Cloud DR's scale-out cloud file system and achieve production-grade performance on your most critical virtual machines recovered on the VMware Cloud DR live mount datastore

Enabling customers to see a particular day and time of the week for VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC maintenance

Virtual machine workloads can also access Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) for fully managed file service to scale the file-based storage automatically to petabyte scale with high availability and durability across multiple availability zones

Cloud Native Storage is now utilized on VMware Cloud on AWS with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Plus

Users can deploy a large SDDC at deployment time with large size instances of NSX edge and vCenter

VMware Horizon support for VMware Cloud on AWS enables customers to: - Easily add and extend on-premises desktop services without buying additional hardware - Co-locate virtual desktops or published application (remote desktop session) hosts near latency-sensitive applications in the cloud - Leverage elastic capacity as a cost-effective way to protect on-premises Horizon deployments or temporary needs

Deliver in-service guided walk-throughs for on-boarding and common configuration tasks to accelerate time to value

Elastic DRS enables SDDC to scale out a cluster faster by adding hosts in parallel when CPU or memory thresholds are reached. Latest enhancement enables the cluster scale out faster by adding 12 hosts in parallel compared to 4 hosts previously supported

Horizon Instant Clone Support is available for VMware Cloud on AWS. Customers can create clones from a base image in seconds to rapidly scale virtual desktop and app deployments

VMware Horizon now offers full clone support for VMware Cloud on AWS. Customers can now rapidly scale Horizon desktops and apps to VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware Horizon for VMware Cloud on AWS delivers a seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud for virtual desktops and applications. It combines the enterprise capabilities of VMware Cloud on AWS, with the market-leading capabilities of VMware Horizon - for a simple, secure and scalable solution. Now, customers can easily extend desktop services to address on-demand capacity, protection of desktop workloads and AWS cloud co-location for latency-sensitive applications without buying additional data center resources

Customers can now see all the historical notification and activity events in their vRealize Log Insight Cloud instance. In other words, all the historical events that you see in the Activity Log tab would also be available via vRealize Log Insight Cloud

VMware Site Recovery now supports seamless resizing of virtual disks of protected virtual machines without disrupting the ongoing replications

Monitor heath, availability, capacity, and cost of Kubernetes clusters on VMC with vRealize Operations Cloud. With enhanced dashboards, reports, and alerts content, gain full-stack visibility on VMware Cloud, upstream Kubernetes to SDDC and Orgs

VMware Cloud on AWS has expanded the custom CPU core capability to allow customers to choose a different number of physical cores per host depending on the host instance type. Specifically, a customer can enable more cores on a host instance type with a larger number of physical cores


VMware SDDCs can be consumed on-demand or via a 1 or 3-year term commitment. Now we offer the option to pay for the 1 or 3-year commitment also via monthly installments. Continue to enjoy the savings of the 1 or 3-year term commitments without upfront payment. Please note that the monthly billing option is only available to qualified pay by invoice transactions directly through VMware or purchases from a Managed Service Provider (MSP) partner under the VMware Cloud Provider Program. Please contact your VMware sales or MSP partner representative for eligibility

New out-of-the-box dashboards to cover seven key operational use cases: availability, performance, compliance, capacity, cost, configuration and inventory

Import and/or export configuration data of the replications created in vSphere Replication for use cases such as migrating vSphere Replication configuration to a different host

Application performance monitoring (APM) tool integration with AppDynamics, Datadog, Dynatrace, and NewRelic to observe the performance, availability, security, and user experience of software applications

Customers can now run their business-critical operations on VMware Cloud on AWS. This means high-value technical support is very critical for delivering operational efficiency, risk reduction, and business continuity. VMware's new In-Product Support gives customers a truly unique and effortless support experience to meet the dynamic needs of their digital business. VMware's In-Product Support provides access to support channels and resources, including: **Intelligent Search Surfaces popular content based on the user's location and contextual usage in the product. Powerful search relevant content across VMware Knowledge Base Articles, Product Docs & Community Posts to answer questions without contacting support. **Chat with VMware Support Quickly address questions or issues with highly skilled VMware Support Engineers and Customer Support Representatives. Continue to search and interact with the product interface while chatting with the support. **Support Requests (SRs For situations that go beyond chat, customers can create and manage SRs or our Support Engineers can create SRs on their behalf via chat without leaving the product. **Ask the Community Engage and pose questions to actively moderated communities backed by passionate VMware Support Engineers and VMware Experts around the globe. **Service Health Review live status of VMware Cloud Services and receive important service notifications

With 1-click, enable near real-time monitoring at a 20 second granularity for better observability of metrics and events in vRealize Operations Cloud. Persist data for up to 3-days to ensure historical evidence and observe data through dashboards and charts in near real-time


Avoid integration overhead and ensure operational consistency with third-party tools. VMware Cloud on AWS has a broadening ISV technology ecosystem support with support for categories across data protection, DevOps, cloud migration, security and more. Technology partners validate that their solutions work with VMware Cloud on AWS. For a complete list of technology partners who have validated that their solution works with VMware Cloud on AWS, please visit [VMware Solution Exchange](httpsmarketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/featured?product=3450,3429)
Monitor the health and performance of Horizon virtual desktops running on VMware Cloud on AWS

Improved visibility of network relationships and metrics to monitor the health of network components to better correlate with potential infrastructure issues

Take advantage of significantly discounted pricing for the VMware Site Recovery add-on by committing to 1-year or 3-year subscription terms

Enabling automated deployment of VMware SDDCs in VMware Cloud on AWS using AWS CloudFormation templates
VMware Site Recovery can be consumed on-demand or via a 1 or 3-year term commitment. Now we offer the option to pay for the 1 or 3-year commitment via monthly installments. Continue to enjoy the savings of the 1 or 3-year term commitments without upfront payment. Please note that the monthly billing option is only available to qualified pay by invoice transactions directly through VMware or purchases from a Managed Service Provider (MSP) partner under the VMware Cloud Provider Program. Please contact your VMware sales or MSP partner representative for eligibility

Pricing API’s for integration with vRealize Automation Cloud to enable showback and chargeback use cases

Cyber Essentials is a UK Government-backed, industry-supported scheme to help organizations protect themselves against common online threats. Certification of Cyber Essentials demonstrates our commitment to preventing and protecting against the vast majority of common cyber attacks

Enabling download of VMware Cloud on AWS bill in a csv format consistent with AWS bills via RESTful API

As a native solution to vRealize Operations Cloud, the management pack for AWS utilizes AWS Cloudwatch to collect operations data for AWS services including EC2, EBS, ASG, EMG, and others to provide pre-configured dashboards, alerts, and reports. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

Now you can configure the retention of replicas from multiple points in time

VMware Cloud on AWS now provides automated space reclamation support with TRIM and SCSI UNMAP to reclaim previously allocated storage as free space

Manage your VMware Cloud on AWS instances in vRealize Operations Cloud using the CSP API token for authorization and communication. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

Enables customers to get fast responses to any question, product help, log defects, or get use case help


Customers can provision and scale file shares alongside block volumes on vSAN datastore on VMware Cloud on AWS

Enabling live migration (vMotion) to VMware Cloud on AWS by accelerating migration with vSphere replication

Generate VMware Cloud on AWS assessment reports and compliance using the vSphere Security hardening guidelines, PCI, HIPPA, FISMA, ISO (and more) benchmarks to ensure compliance of VMware on cloud infrastructure from applications to objects that need to be compliant as per the cloud infrastructure rules for virtual machines. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

VMware Cloud Assembly is a multi-cloud, declarative blueprint orchestration and automation solution that enables infrastructure code for expedited infrastructure consumption and application delivery, while reducing manual effort and the need for cloud specific knowledge. The ability to share content and deployments among project teams also increases collaboration and agility

VMware Code Stream Add-on Service provides release automation and continuous delivery to enable frequent, reliable releases of application and IT code for development and operations teams

With vRealize Operations Cloud, you can determine how many hosts will be needed and the potential cost of a new VMware Cloud on AWS environment based on existing VMs in your environment, or for net new VMs that will be provisioned for the first time in VMware Cloud on AWS. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

Workload optimization provides support for moving virtual compute resources and their file systems dynamically across datastore clusters. Using workload optimization, you can rebalance virtual machines and storage across clusters, relieving demand on an overloaded individual cluster, and maintaining or improving cluster performance. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well

VMware Service Broker Add-on Service is an aggregator of services across multiple cloud platforms, as well as, a single access point for consumption (catalog) with guardrails for a range of services, including Cloud Assembly, Kubernetes Helm charts, AWS Cloud Formation and vRealize Orchestrator workflows

Completing Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ). CAIQ provides industry-accepted ways to document what security controls exist in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings

This enables the customer to utilize one Direct Connect link with VPN as Standby. To use this, Direct Connect Private VIF can be configured with IPSEC VPN as Standby for non-ESXi and non-vMotion traffic

With support for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, customers can monitor Kubernetes clusters on VMware vRealize Operations Cloud using the VMware vRealize Operations management pack for container monitoring. This functionality is available in vRealize Operations as well where customers need to go to marketplace and download and configure the management pack from marketplace
Deferred AWS account connection for Single-Host SDDCs, enabling provisioning of Single-Host SDDCs without connecting to an AWS account for up to 14 days

Contextual Help delivers in-service page sensitive help menu, with searchable list of questions

Delivers simple automation script that discovers your on-premises VM templates and uploads them into your SDDC

Using two factor authentication systems to login to the VMware Cloud on AWS Console (console.cloud.vmware.com)

Customers can now leverage a more flexible permissions model with vCenter Server in VMware Cloud on AWS. This capability enables cloud administrators to create custom roles and assign more granular permissions to users and groups. These permissions can be assigned to users and groups globally or for specific vCenter objects

The ability to select the number of physical cores per host during the time of provisioning, enables customers to optimize their environments for applications that are licensed per physical core

Using Active Directory as a federated authentication provider for VMware Cloud on AWS Console login (console.cloud.vmware.com)

Enables customers to run development and test and non-business critical workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS

Enabling customers to delay AWS account linking for Single Host SDDC

Equal Cost Multi Pathing (ECMP) enables customers to scale the bandwidth across multiple links. With this release, multiple route-based IPSEC VPN tunnels can be used with ECMP to provide additional bandwidth and connectivity resiliency to on-premises, AWS VPCs and to AWS TGW


The developer center is integrated into the VMware Cloud on AWS service console giving automation experts, DevOps engineers and developers a central portal to gain access to detailed API information, software development kits, code samples and command line interfaces. It is now easy to learn and execute the VMware Cloud on AWS Service RESTful APIs with the Interactive API Explorer. Customers can quickly integrate their workflows and partner solutions with VMware and community code samples for common development languages - The Open Source software development kits (SDK's) and links to getting started guides and documentation will offer a better developer experience to VMware Cloud features - Automation experts and DevOps engineers can seamlessly tie their business workflows into VMware Cloud with a selection of command line interfaces

DHCP Relay can be configured within VMware Cloud on AWS so DHCP requests can be forwarded to an external/3rd party DHCP server. Customers can use the native NSX DHCP capabilities in VMware Cloud on AWS or use DHCP Relay to leverage an advanced external/3rd party DHCP server

Improves set-up speed and consistency with usability improvements for Layer 3 IPSec VPN set-up through an easy to use configuration template

VMware Cloud on AWS now enables customers to select another host instance type, i.e. the i3EN.metal instance

Automating configuration of your VMware SDDC networking and security using RESTful APIs through public and private endpoints

|Compliance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) protects European Union data subjects' fundamental right to privacy and the protection of personal data. It introduces robust requirements that will raise and harmonize standards for data protection, security, and compliance.|
VMware HCX is a SaaS service that provides application migration and infrastructure hybridity, and it enables large-scale, seamless, bi-directional workload portability between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS with VMware HCX. Migrations can be done live and in bulk (warm and cold) between various vSphere versions on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS. It creates multi-site, high-performance, secure, WAN-optimized interconnects that stretch networks, without having to change IP addresses and includes policy-based traffic engineering, intelligent routing and automated VPN set up. VMware HCX enables cloud onboarding without retrofitting source infrastructure supporting migration from vSphere 5.0+ to VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud Add-on Service provides unified visibility into infrastructure and application logs across VMware Cloud on AWS, AWS, and on-premises SDDC

Simplifying the creation of the required firewall rules in VMware Cloud on AWS Console, to allow communication across on-premises networks and VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC components. For example, automated configuration of the firewall rules allow necessary ports for vCenter, SRM, and other service communication for Hybrid Linked Mode and VMware Site Recovery use cases

VMware User Environment Manager offers personalization and dynamic policy configuration across any virtual, physical and cloud-based Windows desktop environment


Extend your existing on-premises DR strategy to the cloud by protecting some on-premises workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Site Recovery while simultaneously protecting other workloads managed by the same on-premises vCenter server to a secondary on-premises DR site

Reduce DR costs and operational complexity with support for fan-in and other multi-site topologies to pair a single VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC with multiple on-premises sites and/or other VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC(s) for disaster recovery purposes

Business continuity for mission-critical workloads: Expand and simplify existing disaster recovery operations with on-demand site protection built on proven VMware orchestration, automation and replication technologies – delivered by VMware Site Recovery, an add-on service. Based on industry leading, enterprise-grade recovery plan automation (VMware Site Recovery Manager) and native hypervisor-based replication capabilities (VMware vSphere® Replication) that are trusted by thousands of customers. Support site protection between on-premises to VMware Cloud on AWS or between two VMware Cloud on AWS environments running in separate AWS availability zones or across regions with a flexible architecture. Reduce secondary site costs, accelerate time to protection and simplify DR operations: - Lower capital costs by eliminating need for a secondary DR site and adopting granular, on-demand protection - Increase business resiliency by protecting Tier 1 apps as well as cost-effectively expanding protection to Tier 2/3 applications, without application re-architecture - Accelerate time to protection by removing complexities with the same operating environment from on-premises to cloud - Support site protection between on-premises to VMware Cloud on AWS or between two VMware Cloud on AWS environments running in separate AWS -- availability zones, or regions, with a flexible architecture - Streamline operations with automated orchestration and simple failover and failback built into a familiar management tool enhanced with an HTML5 user interface - Increase confidence and disaster readiness with non-disruptive, on-demand testing available anytime - Available as an add-on service
Accelerate time to protection by leveraging previously replicated base disks of virtual machines as the seed for new replication

Transport VMware Site Recovery replication traffic over AWS Direct Connect Private VIF

VMware Site Recovery is compatibile with multiple versions of vCenter Server, allowing you to protect sites running vCenter Server versions 6.7, 6.5, and 6.0U3

Optimize resource management of your DR cluster, by automating cluster scaling with Elastic DRS after a DR test or failover


vRealize Automation support for VMware Cloud on AWS provides automation of workload provisioning and deployment with unified control and management

VMware vRealize Code Stream support is enabled on VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware Cloud Marketplace enables customers to discover and deploy validated third-party solutions on VMware Cloud on AWS

Ability to spread a specific group of virtual machines across multiple hosts to prevent simultaneous failure of those virtual machines in the event that a host fails

Delivers live migration (VMware vSphere vMotion) of workloads between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS. This will require a customer to have vSphere 6.0U3 or above version on-premises, AWS Direct Connect (Private VIF) and NSX L2VPN. Customers can perform vMotion between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS using UI (which requires vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode to be connected) or using API and PowerCLI 2
vRealize Network Insight helps you fast-track application security and networking across private, hybrid and public. It accelerates micro-segmentation deployment, minimizes business risk during application migration, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments. This offer is also available as a SaaS Service, VMware vRealize Network Insight. Customers can use Network Insight to map app dependencies for micro-segmentation planning or application migration planning. Customers can also troubleshoot app connectivity issues across virtual, physical and multi-cloud network infrastructure. With support for VMware Cloud on AWS, customers gain visibility into configuration and flows, including all IPFIX flows. Paths can now be traced between VMs running in VMware Cloud on AWS, on-premises in vSphere, or with EC2 instances running in AWS. In addition, it provides complete overlay-underlay visibility and supports Netflow and sFlow. Customers can simplify NSX operations with intuitive UI and natural language search to quickly pinpoint issues, scale across multiple NSX managers, proactively detect misconfiguration errors and troubleshoot as well as get best practices recommendations

vRealize Operations support for VMware Cloud on AWS allows organizations to plan, manage and scale VMware SDDC across private cloud and VMware Cloud on AWS with intelligent operations, from applications to infrastructure

vSphere Client plugins can be enabled on VMware Cloud on AWS, allowing VMware Cloud Admin customers to register VMware Cloud-certified vSphere Client plugins securely to the VMware Cloud SDDC(s) they manage

vRealize Orchestrator support for VMware Cloud on AWS simplifies the automation of complex IT tasks

Integrated data protection for your VMware Cloud on AWS workloads with VM-level protection policies

The Plugin Marketplace and the integration with Cloud Marketplace is available in the vSphere Client interface, showing available plugins, lifecycle management, notification on available updates

VMware Cloud on AWS customers can now migrate their existing RedHat OpenShift subscription to their VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs version 1.12 or above. Starting with RedHat OpenShift 4.6, customers can enable their existing OpenShift subscriptions for VMware Cloud on AWS support and leverage the OpenShift on VMware Cloud on AWS deployment guide on bringing up an OpenShift 4.6 environment. Please see enabling subscription link and deployment guide link below under Resources

vSphere virtual machines on a failed host are automatically restarted on another host within the VMware SDDC cluster

VMware Tanzu Observability by VMware support for VMware Cloud on AWS allows you to visualize, alert upon, and troubleshoot applications running on VMware Cloud on AWS. It provides an open API platform supporting over 80 integrations and pre-packaged dashboards from all elements of your stack, spanning open-source, commercial, and custom data sources

"Runtime SDDC Scale up" feature enables customers to up-size their SDDCs to Large sizes after deployment as part of day-2 operations

This service dynamically adjusts the segment size during the TCP connection handshake between end points across the Network Extension, which optimizes the average packet size to reduce fragmentation and lower the overall packet rate

This service creates multiple tunnel flows for both Interconnect and Network Extension traffic to follow multiple paths across the network infrastructure from the source to the destination data centers. The service then intelligently forwards the traffic over the optimal path and dynamically switches between tunnels depending on traffic conditions

Enables customers to create more than one SDDC in an organization. Each SDDC must be connected to an AWS account


Zero RPO high availability is now available for enterprise applications virtualized on vSphere across AWS Availability Zones (AZ), leveraging multi-AZ stretched clusters. This enables you to: - Significantly improve your application's availability without needing to architect it into your application. - Stretch an SDDC cluster across two AWS AZs within a region, which means if an AZ goes down, it is simply treated as a vSphere HA event and the virtual machine is restarted in the other AZ. - 99.99% infrastructure availability provided by stretched clusters

You can enable the network encryption of the DR replication traffic data for new and existing replications to enhance data transfer security. When the network encryption is enabled for a replication, an agent on the source encrypts the replication data on the source ESXi host andit to the vSphere Replication appliance on the target site. The vSphere Replication server decrypts the data andit to the target datastore

Enabling smaller configuration purchase option at a low, predictable price for fast and flexible consumption. Ability to purchase a three host configuration of VMware Cloud on AWS. Dedicated single-tenant infrastructure delivered on AWS EC2 elastic bare-metal infrastructure

Mobility groups enable you to structure migration waves based on business requirements. You can assemble one or more VMs into logical sets to execute and monitor migrations as a group. When combined with the vRealize Network Insight integration (available as a separate license), mobility groups give you the flexibility to manage migrations for sets of VMs by application, network, pod, or other aspects of your environment

Customers can scale capacity by adding additional stretched clusters to a stretched cluster SDDC deployed on i3.metal instances. All clusters in the SDDC must be stretched clusters

RAV uses a combination of VMware replication and vMotion technologies for large-scale, parallel migrations with no service interruption with the ability to specify a switchover window. It means you can now create a migration schedule during a large set of VMs (200 at this time), which can move live (without any downtime) to VMware Cloud on AWS at the scheduled migration window

Cost-effectively recover virtual machines with large storage capacity requirements using i3en.metal clusters as the recovery target

For VMs migrated using VMware HCX from a source location to VMware Cloud on AWS, this capability enables the cloud-side VMs on the HCX extended network to route traffic optimally through the cloud-side first-hop gateway instead of being routed through the source environment router. This helps you avoid a hairpin or trombone effect. Policy routes will allow control over which traffic is routed locally using the cloud gateway versus traffic through the source gateway


vCenter servers within an SDDC Group can now be linked together to manage all the resources from a single vSphere client interface. VM operations and migrations can be performed on the resources managed across all the vCenter Servers. Additionally, tags that are created on any of the vCenters within the group are automatically synced across all the other vCenters in the group

Multi-Edge SDDC capability enables customers to add network capacity for north-south network traffic. Customers can linearly scale bandwidth for migration and workload communication over VMware Transit Connect

Users can file a service request for a defect or to get help with a specific use case

VMware Cloud on AWS is now a RedHat Certified Cloud Service Provider for RedHat Enterprise Linux. This certification enables customers to bring their existing RHEL licenses to VMware Cloud on AWS with RedHat support. This certification only applies to RHEL and is not applicable to OpenShift. In order to enable your existing RHEL licenses for VMware Cloud on AWS, please follow the instructions in [here](httpsaccess.redhat.com/public-cloud) and Enable Subscriptions under Bring Your Own Golden Image

Customers can establish connectivity to on-premises/colo data centers via their AWS Direct Connect Gateway. VMware Transit Connect enables customers to centralize connectivity for SDDC Group to Direct Connect Gateway

Partition placement groups increase the availability of applications by placing hosts in different logical partitions that do not share the same underlying hardware. Partition placement groups automatically deploy hosts across as many different partitions as there are available within an AZ. Each partition within a placement group has its own set of racks, and each rack has its own network and power source. No two partitions within a placement group share the same racks, which allows for isolating host failures within an SDDC cluster

SDDC groups enable customers to organize SDDCs together and manage them as a single logical entity. This feature leverages VMware Transit Connect to connect SDDCs within a group

Per Microsoft’s 10/1/2019 licensing changes, VMware supplies Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server pre-packaged OVF instances for rapid deployment on VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware also supplies ISO binaries to allow a customer to create their own instances. Once licensed, customers can deploy an unlimited number of instances on the ESXi cluster by cluster basis

VMware Transit Connect provides network-level connectivity among SDDC group members. It leverages the AWS Transit Gateway (TGW) to enable any-to-any connectivity between SDDC group members in a single AWS region. It also enables network connectivity to AWS VPCs and on-premises/colo data centers (via a Direct Connect Gateway)


VMware NSX Advanced Firewall ensures Layer 7 security for SDDCs. It introduces NSX Distributed Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Identity Firewall, and Distributed Firewall with Layer 7 application identity and FQDN filtering capabilities to VMware Cloud on AWS

The new audit events for VMware Cloud Services dashboard and content pack in vRealize Log Insight Cloud enables VMware Cloud on AWS organization owners to monitor VMware Cloud Services audit events triggered by activity with user logins, user management, API Tokens, and OAuth applications

Now you can automate VM storage policy settings for VMware Cloud on AWS clusters to meet VMware Cloud on AWS SLA requirements

Enables customers to migrate their workloads from non-VMware to VMware environments
Now enterprises can take advantage of a smaller configuration purchase option at a low, predictable price for fast and flexible consumption for production environments. Organizations have the ability to purchase a two-host configuration of VMware Cloud on AWS and use dedicated single-tenant infrastructure delivered on AWS EC2 elastic bare-metal infrastructure

VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud enables customers to establish IPSec tunnel from VeloCloud SD-WAN Gateway to VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC

VMware Cloud on AWS allows cloud-side VMs on the extended network to route traffic optimally through the cloud-side first-hop gateway instead of being routed through the source environment router. Hence, organizations can avoid traffic tromboning via policy based forwarding on the cloud router

There is now support for jumbo frames (9000 byte MTU) on AWS Direct Connect. This enables customers to utilize jumbo frames to improve end to end performance for their Direct Connect traffic

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid is an enterprise-ready Kubernetes runtime that packages open source technologies and automation tooling to help you get up and running quickly with a scalable, multi-cluster Kubernetes environment. Now with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid support, customers can deploy, scale and manage Kubernetes clusters on VMware Cloud on AWS

Enables scaling of capacity by adding and removing hosts in VMware SDDC clusters

Automating VMware SDDC clusters scaling and resource optimization based on user requirements

Ability to inhibit DRS initiated vMotion for load balancing purposes. Useful for vMotion sensitive applications such as, large transactional databases, real-time transaction processing applications, etc

Minimum cluster size is 2 hosts. Customers can add capacity up to 16 hosts per cluster. Dedicated single-tenant infrastructure delivered on AWS i3 EC2 elastic bare-metal infrastructure

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant AWS EC2 I3.metal bare-metal hosts. Each host has 2 x Intel Xeon E5 2686 v4 @ 2.3GHz CPUs, 36 cores, 512GiB RAM and ~14 NVMe attached flash storage (3.6 TB cache plus 10.7 TB raw capacity tier). AWS infrastructure is based on the latest-generation Storage Optimized High I/O instances, featuring low-latency Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)-based SSDs

Failed hosts in a VMware SDDC are automatically detected by VMware and replaced with healthy hosts

Customers can now see all the historical notification events in their Activity Log tab. Example notification events include maintenance notifications, EDRS add host notifications, detailed SDDC upgrade notifications, DRaaS notifications, etc. This new feature would enable customers to audit historical notification events in the UI

Starting with Horizon release 2103, you can use a low-cost PostgreSQL database to log all events. This open-source database option is useful for the customers in reducing their Virtual Desktop Infrastructure TCO
Expand your DR strategy to include protection of your virtual machines running in VMware Cloud on AWS in addition to those running in your on-premises data center. Confidently migrate your most critical virtual machines to VMware Cloud on AWS with the knowledge that they can be easily protected to another AWS region using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

VMware integration with AWS Commerce Platform will enable multiple sellers of record within a single VMware Cloud on AWS defined organization (org). Customers who purchase from AWS can now have a VMware seller account that gives them the opportunity to purchase and run any cloud service within VMware that is compatible with VMware Cloud on AWS in a single org. The same is applicable when they have VMware as the seller and they want to add AWS as the new seller in the same org

With Tanzu Application Service support on VMware Cloud on AWS, you can now seamlessly migrate your existing Tanzu Application Service deployments to VMware Cloud on AWS. You can use your existing on-premises Tanzu Application Service licenses when running Tanzu Application Service on VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Africa (Cape Town), enabling the provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

Protect and recover your vSphere virtual machines using VMware Cloud DR in additional regions


VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region


Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka), enabling the provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents


The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information

VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i4i bare-metal hosts. Each host has 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory, and Up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. It offers high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and better security with always-on encryption

The OSPAR report demonstrates VMware Cloud on AWS compliance against the outsourcing guidelines prescribed for by the Association of Banks in Singapore

Provide the option for select VMware Cloud on AWS customers to 'Activate' vRealize Operations Cloud from within VMware Cloud console within the 'Add-Ons' section in the VMware Cloud console UI. When customer 'activates' vRealize Operations Cloud, all the integration tasks needed will be programmatically performed for the user in the background such as:
VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region


Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

VMware vRealize Automation Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that enables self-service cloud environments. With vRealize Automation Cloud, customers can increase agility, productivity and efficiency through self-service automation, by reducing the complexity of their IT environment, streamlining IT processes and delivering a DevOps-ready automation platform. To enable frictionless onboarding to vRealize Automation Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS customers are now able to activate a vRealize Automation Cloud trial directly through the VMware Cloud on AWS console. This trial can be activated from any VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC by navigating to the SDDC’s Add-Ons tab. From the Add-Ons tab, customers can click activate, which will begin a 45-day free trial of the vRealize Automation Cloud service. After activation, all vRA Cloud service features and operations will be enabled from the vRA Cloud console

VMware vRealize Operations Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that allows customer's infrastructure and operations teams to manage the enterprises' VMware Cloud environment, whether in the customer's own on-premises software-defined data center ("SDDC") or in the public cloud environment, such as VMware Cloud on AWS

The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information

VMware Cloud on AWS has successfully completed the IRAP cloud security assessment. The IRAP Cloud Security Assessment demonstrates our compliance against the Australian Information Security Manual (ISM) and Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) and shows VMware Cloud on AWS’s suitability to handle Australian Government data

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i4i bare-metal hosts. Each host has 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory, and Up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. It offers high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and better security with always-on encryption

Provides capabilities such as networking limit-based alerts and intents, alert categories, alert types, setting max limits, current usage, criticality, description, fix recommendations, and "VMware Cloud on AWS Limit" alert types

These alerts will allow the VMware Cloud on AWS users in their VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC planning and troubleshooting efforts

Users will be able to create VMware Cloud on AWS networking intents in vRealize Network Insight for properly designing and managing their VMware Cloud on AWS network

Provide the option for select VMware Cloud on AWS customers to 'Activate' vRealize Operations Cloud from within VMware Cloud console within the 'Add-Ons' section in the VMware Cloud console UI. When customer 'activates' vRealize Operations Cloud, all the integration tasks needed will be programmatically performed for the user in the background such as:
End-to-End VM to VM MPLS path visibility for VMware Cloud on AWS Direct Connect using vRealize Network Insight
Flow Based Application Discovery with Machine Learning with improved scale for number of VMs and application scale supported
VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region


VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud is a SaaS service that can help you fast-track application security and networking across private, hybrid and public. It accelerates micro-segmentation deployment, minimizes business risk during application migration, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments. It is also available as an on-premises perpetual product, VMware vRealize Network Insight. Customers use vRealize Network Insight Cloud to map app dependencies for micro-segmentation planning or application migration planning. Customers can troubleshoot app connectivity issues across virtual, physical and multi-cloud network infrastructure. Support for VMware Cloud on AWS, provides visibility into configuration and flows, including all IPFIX flows. Paths can now be traced between VMs running in VMware Cloud on AWS, on premises in vSphere, or with EC2 instances running in AWS. In addition, it provides complete overlay-underlay visibility and supports Netflow and sFlow. It includes integration with leading firewall and networking vendors such as F5, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco ASA, Cisco ACI, and more. Customers can simplify NSX operations with intuitive UI and natural language search to quickly pinpoint issues, scale across multiple NSX managers, proactively detect misconfiguration errors and troubleshoot as well as get best practices recommendations

Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

VMware vRealize Automation Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that enables self-service cloud environments. With vRealize Automation Cloud, customers can increase agility, productivity and efficiency through self-service automation, by reducing the complexity of their IT environment, streamlining IT processes and delivering a DevOps-ready automation platform. To enable frictionless onboarding to vRealize Automation Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS customers are now able to activate a vRealize Automation Cloud trial directly through the VMware Cloud on AWS console. This trial can be activated from any VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC by navigating to the SDDC’s Add-Ons tab. From the Add-Ons tab, customers can click activate, which will begin a 45-day free trial of the vRealize Automation Cloud service. After activation, all vRA Cloud service features and operations will be enabled from the vRA Cloud console

VMware vRealize Operations Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that allows customer's infrastructure and operations teams to manage the enterprises' VMware Cloud environment, whether in the customer's own on-premises software-defined data center ("SDDC") or in the public cloud environment, such as VMware Cloud on AWS

This feature supports the forwarding of VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC vRLIC logs to forward to either Europe (Frankfurt) or Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS regions if those SDDCs are deployed to those regions

The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i4i bare-metal hosts. Each host has 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory, and Up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. It offers high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and better security with always-on encryption

Information System Security Management and Assessment Program (ISMAP) is a compliance program mandated by the Japanese authorities to work with the public sector agencies in Japan

Provides capabilities such as networking limit-based alerts and intents, alert categories, alert types, setting max limits, current usage, criticality, description, fix recommendations, and "VMware Cloud on AWS Limit" alert types

These alerts will allow the VMware Cloud on AWS users in their VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC planning and troubleshooting efforts

Users will be able to create VMware Cloud on AWS networking intents in vRealize Network Insight for properly designing and managing their VMware Cloud on AWS network

End-to-End VM to VM MPLS path visibility for VMware Cloud on AWS Direct Connect using vRealize Network Insight
Flow Based Application Discovery with Machine Learning with improved scale for number of VMs and application scale supported

VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

The 3 Guidelines from 3 Ministries is a collection of security and compliance guidelines published by the three ministries in Japan - Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. In Japan, medical institutions that store medical data such as patient records and medical images in an external facility such as a public cloud should align with the requirements specified in these guidelines

FISC (The Center for Financial Industry Information Systems) is an organization under the Japanese Minister of Finance. FISC issued security guidelines that prescribe security measures for financial institutions in Japan. VMware Cloud on AWS aligns with FISC guidelines

VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud is a SaaS service that can help you fast-track application security and networking across private, hybrid and public. It accelerates micro-segmentation deployment, minimizes business risk during application migration, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments. It is also available as an on-premises perpetual product, VMware vRealize Network Insight. Customers use vRealize Network Insight Cloud to map app dependencies for micro-segmentation planning or application migration planning. Customers can troubleshoot app connectivity issues across virtual, physical and multi-cloud network infrastructure. Support for VMware Cloud on AWS, provides visibility into configuration and flows, including all IPFIX flows. Paths can now be traced between VMs running in VMware Cloud on AWS, on premises in vSphere, or with EC2 instances running in AWS. In addition, it provides complete overlay-underlay visibility and supports Netflow and sFlow. It includes integration with leading firewall and networking vendors such as F5, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco ASA, Cisco ACI, and more. Customers can simplify NSX operations with intuitive UI and natural language search to quickly pinpoint issues, scale across multiple NSX managers, proactively detect misconfiguration errors and troubleshoot as well as get best practices recommendations


Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i4i bare-metal hosts. Each host has 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory, and Up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. It offers high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and better security with always-on encryption

Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

Provide the option for select VMware Cloud on AWS customers to 'Activate' vRealize Operations Cloud from within VMware Cloud console within the 'Add-Ons' section in the VMware Cloud console UI. When customer 'activates' vRealize Operations Cloud, all the integration tasks needed will be programmatically performed for the user in the background such as:
VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency


VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Canada (Central), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

VMware vRealize Automation Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that enables self-service cloud environments. With vRealize Automation Cloud, customers can increase agility, productivity and efficiency through self-service automation, by reducing the complexity of their IT environment, streamlining IT processes and delivering a DevOps-ready automation platform. To enable frictionless onboarding to vRealize Automation Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS customers are now able to activate a vRealize Automation Cloud trial directly through the VMware Cloud on AWS console. This trial can be activated from any VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC by navigating to the SDDC’s Add-Ons tab. From the Add-Ons tab, customers can click activate, which will begin a 45-day free trial of the vRealize Automation Cloud service. After activation, all vRA Cloud service features and operations will be enabled from the vRA Cloud console

VMware vRealize Operations Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that allows customer's infrastructure and operations teams to manage the enterprises' VMware Cloud environment, whether in the customer's own on-premises software-defined data center ("SDDC") or in the public cloud environment, such as VMware Cloud on AWS

Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i4i bare-metal hosts. Each host has 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory, and Up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. It offers high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and better security with always-on encryption

Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

Provide the option for select VMware Cloud on AWS customers to 'Activate' vRealize Operations Cloud from within VMware Cloud console within the 'Add-Ons' section in the VMware Cloud console UI. When customer 'activates' vRealize Operations Cloud, all the integration tasks needed will be programmatically performed for the user in the background such as:
VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency


VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Frankfurt), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

European Banking Authority (EBA) outsourcing guidelines prescribe the governance framework and guidelines for financial institutions within the scope of the EBA's mandate when outsourcing internal functions to service providers (including cloud outsourcing)

Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts


VMware vRealize Automation Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that enables self-service cloud environments. With vRealize Automation Cloud, customers can increase agility, productivity and efficiency through self-service automation, by reducing the complexity of their IT environment, streamlining IT processes and delivering a DevOps-ready automation platform. To enable frictionless onboarding to vRealize Automation Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS customers are now able to activate a vRealize Automation Cloud trial directly through the VMware Cloud on AWS console. This trial can be activated from any VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC by navigating to the SDDC’s Add-Ons tab. From the Add-Ons tab, customers can click activate, which will begin a 45-day free trial of the vRealize Automation Cloud service. After activation, all vRA Cloud service features and operations will be enabled from the vRA Cloud console

VMware vRealize Operations Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that allows customer's infrastructure and operations teams to manage the enterprises' VMware Cloud environment, whether in the customer's own on-premises software-defined data center ("SDDC") or in the public cloud environment, such as VMware Cloud on AWS

This feature supports the forwarding of VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC vRLIC logs to forward to either Europe (Frankfurt) or Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS regions if those SDDCs are deployed to those regions

The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i4i bare-metal hosts. Each host has 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory, and Up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. It offers high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and better security with always-on encryption

VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Ireland), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

European Banking Authority (EBA) outsourcing guidelines prescribe the governance framework and guidelines for financial institutions within the scope of the EBA's mandate when outsourcing internal functions to service providers (including cloud outsourcing)


Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i4i bare-metal hosts. Each host has 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory, and Up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. It offers high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and better security with always-on encryption

Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

Provides capabilities such as networking limit-based alerts and intents, alert categories, alert types, setting max limits, current usage, criticality, description, fix recommendations, and "VMware Cloud on AWS Limit" alert types

These alerts will allow the VMware Cloud on AWS users in their VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC planning and troubleshooting efforts

Users will be able to create VMware Cloud on AWS networking intents in vRealize Network Insight for properly designing and managing their VMware Cloud on AWS network

End-to-End VM to VM MPLS path visibility for VMware Cloud on AWS Direct Connect using vRealize Network Insight
Flow Based Application Discovery with Machine Learning with improved scale for number of VMs and application scale supported
VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (London). Enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

G-Cloud is a framework agreement published by the UK Crown Commercial Service. VMware Cloud on AWS is listed on the G-Cloud digital marketplace. Check out the digital marketplace portal below for a detailed overview of our service, support, relevant pricing documents, terms and conditions, and sales contacts

European Banking Authority (EBA) outsourcing guidelines prescribe the governance framework and guidelines for financial institutions within the scope of the EBA's mandate when outsourcing internal functions to service providers (including cloud outsourcing)

The Fourteen Cloud Security Principles are a set of cloud security guidelines prescribed by the UK National Cyber Security Center (NCSC). VMware Cloud on AWS aligns with Cloud Security Principles and the objectives of these principles as part of NCSC Cloud Security Guidance

VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud is a SaaS service that can help you fast-track application security and networking across private, hybrid and public. It accelerates micro-segmentation deployment, minimizes business risk during application migration, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments. It is also available as an on-premises perpetual product, VMware vRealize Network Insight. Customers use vRealize Network Insight Cloud to map app dependencies for micro-segmentation planning or application migration planning. Customers can troubleshoot app connectivity issues across virtual, physical and multi-cloud network infrastructure. Support for VMware Cloud on AWS, provides visibility into configuration and flows, including all IPFIX flows. Paths can now be traced between VMs running in VMware Cloud on AWS, on premises in vSphere, or with EC2 instances running in AWS. In addition, it provides complete overlay-underlay visibility and supports Netflow and sFlow. It includes integration with leading firewall and networking vendors such as F5, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco ASA, Cisco ACI, and more. Customers can simplify NSX operations with intuitive UI and natural language search to quickly pinpoint issues, scale across multiple NSX managers, proactively detect misconfiguration errors and troubleshoot as well as get best practices recommendations


Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information

Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Milan), enabling the provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region


Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i4i bare-metal hosts. Each host has 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory, and Up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. It offers high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and better security with always-on encryption

Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Paris), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

European Banking Authority (EBA) outsourcing guidelines prescribe the governance framework and guidelines for financial institutions within the scope of the EBA's mandate when outsourcing internal functions to service providers (including cloud outsourcing)


Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency

VMware Cloud on AWS service is now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

European Banking Authority (EBA) outsourcing guidelines prescribe the governance framework and guidelines for financial institutions within the scope of the EBA's mandate when outsourcing internal functions to service providers (including cloud outsourcing)

Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS Europe (Zurich), enabling the provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

Protect and recover your vSphere virtual machines using VMware Cloud DR in additional regions

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS South America (Sao Paulo), enabling provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region


Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i4i bare-metal hosts. Each host has 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory, and Up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. It offers high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and better security with always-on encryption

Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

VMware Cloud on AWS SKU-based transaction allows distributors to purchase on behalf of a designated reseller and end customer. This 2-tier partner commerce motion for VMware Cloud on AWS enables distributors to streamline the purchase of VMware Cloud on AWS hosts by SKU without purchasing upfront SPP credits or signing a contract. The purchased subscription is activated immediately upon the delivery of the email invitation to onboard the service. Please Note: End customers do NOT have self-service commerce capabilities and must request further VMware Cloud on AWS subscriptions from the reseller/distributor when they want to purchase them

VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency


VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS US East (N. Virginia), enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i4i bare-metal hosts. Each host has 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory, and Up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. It offers high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and better security with always-on encryption


Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

VMware Cloud on AWS SKU-based transaction allows distributors to purchase on behalf of a designated reseller and end customer. This 2-tier partner commerce motion for VMware Cloud on AWS enables distributors to streamline the purchase of VMware Cloud on AWS hosts by SKU without purchasing upfront SPP credits or signing a contract. The purchased subscription is activated immediately upon the delivery of the email invitation to onboard the service. Please Note: End customers do NOT have self-service commerce capabilities and must request further VMware Cloud on AWS subscriptions from the reseller/distributor when they want to purchase them

VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS US East (Ohio), enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i4i bare-metal hosts. Each host has 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory, and Up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. It offers high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and better security with always-on encryption

Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

VMware Cloud on AWS SKU-based transaction allows distributors to purchase on behalf of a designated reseller and end customer. This 2-tier partner commerce motion for VMware Cloud on AWS enables distributors to streamline the purchase of VMware Cloud on AWS hosts by SKU without purchasing upfront SPP credits or signing a contract. The purchased subscription is activated immediately upon the delivery of the email invitation to onboard the service. Please Note: End customers do NOT have self-service commerce capabilities and must request further VMware Cloud on AWS subscriptions from the reseller/distributor when they want to purchase them


VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS US West (N. California), enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information


VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i4i bare-metal hosts. Each host has 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processors with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory, and Up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. It offers high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and better security with always-on encryption

Expand storage capacity without adding hosts and streamline operations with VMware Cloud Flex Storage. Delivered with simple cloud economics, our cloud storage service offers an elastic and natively integrated solution for VMware Cloud on AWS that is fully managed by VMware. And it allows you to pay for only the resources you need with a straightforward, consumption-based pricing model

VMware Cloud on AWS SKU-based transaction allows distributors to purchase on behalf of a designated reseller and end customer. This 2-tier partner commerce motion for VMware Cloud on AWS enables distributors to streamline the purchase of VMware Cloud on AWS hosts by SKU without purchasing upfront SPP credits or signing a contract. The purchased subscription is activated immediately upon the delivery of the email invitation to onboard the service. Please Note: End customers do NOT have self-service commerce capabilities and must request further VMware Cloud on AWS subscriptions from the reseller/distributor when they want to purchase them

Provides capabilities such as networking limit-based alerts and intents, alert categories, alert types, setting max limits, current usage, criticality, description, fix recommendations, and "VMware Cloud on AWS Limit" alert types

These alerts will allow the VMware Cloud on AWS users in their VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC planning and troubleshooting efforts

Users will be able to create VMware Cloud on AWS networking intents in vRealize Network Insight for properly designing and managing their VMware Cloud on AWS network

Provide the option for select VMware Cloud on AWS customers to 'Activate' vRealize Operations Cloud from within VMware Cloud console within the 'Add-Ons' section in the VMware Cloud console UI. When customer 'activates' vRealize Operations Cloud, all the integration tasks needed will be programmatically performed for the user in the background such as:
End-to-End VM to VM MPLS path visibility for VMware Cloud on AWS Direct Connect using vRealize Network Insight
Flow Based Application Discovery with Machine Learning with improved scale for number of VMs and application scale supported

VMware Cloud Partner Navigator support for vRealize Network Insight Cloud so MSPs can utilize a multi-tenant version for network visibility of VMware Cloud on AWS VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud, now available through VMware Cloud Partner Navigator, takes a flexible and modular SaaS approach to delivering network visibility and analytics. This enables partners to help optimize and secure their tenant’s network infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The cloud-based solution provides a rapid path to monetizing new professional service offerings at scale—like security, network and application assessments—and new ongoing services, like quarterly security assessments or self-service assessments, reducing the time to market

VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-based service that makes VMware Cloud on AWS more accessible to a wider set of customers. VMware Cloud Director service enables cloud providers and MSPs to deliver proven multi-tenancy to VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling them to provision custom-sized slices of VMware Cloud on AWS for customers. This cloud-based solution helps cloud providerstheir customer base, accelerate business expansion, and increase business agility. VMware Cloud Director service instances are deployed in US West, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and are available to any SDDC within 150ms of latency

VMware Cloud on AWS service availability in AWS US West (Oregon), enables provisioning of VMware SDDCs in that region

VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud is a SaaS service that can help you fast-track application security and networking across private, hybrid and public. It accelerates micro-segmentation deployment, minimizes business risk during application migration, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments. It is also available as an on-premises perpetual product, VMware vRealize Network Insight. Customers use vRealize Network Insight Cloud to map app dependencies for micro-segmentation planning or application migration planning. Customers can troubleshoot app connectivity issues across virtual, physical and multi-cloud network infrastructure. Support for VMware Cloud on AWS, provides visibility into configuration and flows, including all IPFIX flows. Paths can now be traced between VMs running in VMware Cloud on AWS, on premises in vSphere, or with EC2 instances running in AWS. In addition, it provides complete overlay-underlay visibility and supports Netflow and sFlow. It includes integration with leading firewall and networking vendors such as F5, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco ASA, Cisco ACI, and more. Customers can simplify NSX operations with intuitive UI and natural language search to quickly pinpoint issues, scale across multiple NSX managers, proactively detect misconfiguration errors and troubleshoot as well as get best practices recommendations

Reliably and cost-effectively protect your vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud and recover them rapidly to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery helps lower the cost of DR by storing backups in cloud storage in a highly efficient manner and allowing you to pay for recovery host capacity only when you want to conduct a DR test or perform a failover. Rapid recovery is possible at scale because of the "live mount" capability which enables fast power-on of the recovered VMs in VMware Cloud on AWS without a time-consuming data rehydration process. A full-featured SaaS-simple DR orchestrator is built-in to minimize the need for manual effort during recovery. The service is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS for efficient recovery and a consistent operational experience without error-prone VM format conversions. End-to-end and daily data integrity checks of the backups and continuous DR health checks of the DR plans ensure a high level of reliability and minimize recovery risk. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also supports a deep history of immutable snapshots for effective recovery from ransomware attacks- a fast-emerging cause of DR incidents

VMware SDDCs are deployed with dedicated, single-tenant i3en bare-metal hosts. Each host has Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake Processors @ 2.5GHz CPUs, 48 cores, 96 logical cores with hyperthreading enabled, 768GiB RAM, 8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD and native encryption at NIC-level for east-west traffic within SDDC boundaries. Compression is enabled by default to provide storage efficiencies on i3en bare-metal hosts

VMware vRealize Automation Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that enables self-service cloud environments. With vRealize Automation Cloud, customers can increase agility, productivity and efficiency through self-service automation, by reducing the complexity of their IT environment, streamlining IT processes and delivering a DevOps-ready automation platform. To enable frictionless onboarding to vRealize Automation Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS customers are now able to activate a vRealize Automation Cloud trial directly through the VMware Cloud on AWS console. This trial can be activated from any VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC by navigating to the SDDC’s Add-Ons tab. From the Add-Ons tab, customers can click activate, which will begin a 45-day free trial of the vRealize Automation Cloud service. After activation, all vRA Cloud service features and operations will be enabled from the vRA Cloud console

VMware vRealize Operations Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that allows customer's infrastructure and operations teams to manage the enterprises' VMware Cloud environment, whether in the customer's own on-premises software-defined data center ("SDDC") or in the public cloud environment, such as VMware Cloud on AWS

The new VMware Cloud on AWS PCI compliant environment will provide a standardized architecture based on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v3.2.1. The VMware Cloud on AWS PCI DSS offering enabled customers to leverage this secure platform for storing, processing, and transmitting credit card information

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Optimized for general purpose workloads that need increased scale. Great for database workloads, VDI workloads, mission/business critical workloads, memory intensive workloads, and real time applications. Provides more memory, compute, storage, and networking speed

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Optimized for general purpose workloads that need increased scale. Great for database workloads, VDI workloads, mission/business critical workloads, memory intensive workloads, and real time applications. Provides more memory, compute, storage, and networking speed

What is the difference between on-demand and subscription pricing? On-Demand Pricing
On-Demand consumption allows you to pay for physical hosts by the hour. There are no upfront costs, and you have the flexibility to scale the number of hosts up or down without long-term commitments. You only pay for each hour that the host is active in your account. If you choose the on-demand option, you will be billed at the end of the month in arrears. Subscription Pricing Prepay longer-term subscription of hosts gives you up to 50% cost saving compared to on-demand hosts consumed over the equivalent period. Host subscriptions are available in 1-year or 3-year terms with standard or flexible subscription option. If you choose standard 1-year or 3-year subscription option, you can choose to prepay upfront or pay monthly. To avail the new flexible subscription model, customers must purchase new flexible 1-year or 3-year term commitments, paid upfront. They will not be able to change previously purchased non-flexible 1-year or 3-year term commitments

Additional charges not included Data Transfer charges:
• Data transfer IN to VMware Cloud on AWS from internet: $0.00/GB
• Data transfer IN to VMware Cloud on AWS from another region: $0.00/GB
• Data transfer IN/OUT/BETWEEN same Availability Zone: $0.00/GB

• Data transfer IN/OUT/BETWEEN different Availability Zones or using elastic IP or ELB: $0.00/GB (no charge for stretch clusters data transfer)
• Data transfer OUT from VMware Cloud on AWS to the internet: $0.05/GB
• Data transfer OUT from VMware Cloud on AWS to another AWS region: $0.02/GB
IP address charges:
• Elastic IP address associated with a running instance: $0.005/IP/hour
• Elastic IP address not associated with a running instance: $0.005/IP/hour
• Elastic IP address remap: $0.1/IP Note: These charges are for US West (Oregon) region only. For other regions, please check here

• VMW has introduced a new policy for EIP charges where you will be charged only for the IPs unattached to a running instance. This means additional cost savings that we pass on to you for these charges

VMware Transit Connect Pricing:
• Price per VMware Transit Connect attachment: $0.05/hour
• Price per GB of data processed by VMware Transit Connect: $0.02
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VMware Cloud™ on AWS brings VMware’s enterprise-class SDDC software to the AWS Cloud with optimized access to AWS services. Powered by VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Cloud on AWS integrates our compute, storage and network virtualization products (VMware vSphere®, vSAN™ and NSX®) along with VMware vCenter management, optimized to run on dedicated, elastic, bare-metal AWS infrastructure

VMware Cloud on AWS is newly available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. Apart from that, it has been available in AWS US East (N. Virginia), AWS US East (Ohio), AWS US West (N. California), AWS US West (Oregon), AWS Canada (Central), AWS Europe (Frankfurt), AWS Europe (Ireland), AWS Europe (London), AWS Europe (Paris), AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore), AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney), AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo), AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, AWS South America (Sao Paulo), AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul), AWS Europe (Stockholm), AWS Europe (Milan), AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka), AWS GovCloud (US West) and AWS GovCloud (US East) regions. Please note that some regions require customers to explicitly opt-in to link their own AWS account to SDDCs

VMware Cloud on AWS is designed with multiple layers of protection. The service inherits all of the physical and network protections of the AWS infrastructure and adds dedicated compute and storage along with the security capabilities built into vSphere, vSAN and NSX. All data transmitted between your customer site and the service can be encrypted via VPN. All data between the VMware Cloud on AWS service and your SDDCs is encrypted. Data at rest is encrypted. The VMware Cloud on AWS infrastructure is monitored and regularly tested for security vulnerabilities and hardened to enhance security

VMware Cloud on AWS is available on-demand or in 1 year and 3 year subscriptions. Please visit the pricing page for the latest information on pricing

VMware Cloud on AWS infrastructure runs on dedicated, single tenant hosts provided by AWS in a single account. Each host is equivalent to an Amazon EC2 I3.metal instance (2 sockets with 18 cores per socket, 512 GiB RAM, and 15.2 TB Raw SSD storage). Each host is capable of running many VMware Virtual Machines (tens to hundreds depending on their compute, memory and storage requirements). Clusters can range from a minimum of 2 hosts up to a maximum of 16 hosts per cluster. A single VMware vCenter server is deployed per SDDC environment

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