SERVICES
Amazon Elastic VMware Service
(Amazon EVS)
Effectual helps organizations efficiently migrate and run VMware workloads on AWS using Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), delivering a seamless transition, optimized performance, and long-term operational success.

Amazon EVS delivers a modern, cloud-native platform for VMware workloads, designed to give organizations more flexibility, control, and efficiency in the cloud.
By running VMware on AWS with EVS, businesses can seamlessly migrate existing environments, reduce operational complexity, and unlock new opportunities to modernize and innovate with the option to extend storage and performance using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.
Benefits of Effectual’s Amazon Elastic VMware Service offering

Native AWS Management
Configure, monitor, and optimize EVS directly from the AWS Management Console.

Bring Your VMware Skills and Workflows to the Cloud
Leverage your team's existing VMware skills and processes while unlocking AWS integration.

Flexible and Balaced Performance
Launch on i4i instances for balanced performance, with additional instance types coming for CPU or memory intensive workloads.

Seamless Integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
EVS integrates seamlessly with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for high performance, flexible storage that delivers even greater efficiency and scalability for VMware workloads.

Modernize NOW
EVS gives you the efficiency of VMware on AWS today with a direct path to cloud native transformation tomorrow.
Use cases

Data Center Exit
Quickly migrate VMware workloads to AWS without rearchitecting applications or changing IP addresses.

Disaster Recovery
Establish a cost effective DR site in the cloud using the VMware tools your team already knows.

Capacity Expansion
Instantly scale workloads in AWS without new hardware purchases or delays.

Cloud Modernization
Use EVS as a strategic stepping stone to modernize and enhance applications with AWS native services.

Hybrid Cloud Operations
Maintain a consistent VMware experience across both on-premises and AWS environments.
Effectual: Your Partner for Driving Efficiency with AWS

Plan with Precision
Assess your VMware environment and design a migration strategy that maximizes efficiency and minimizes risk.

Execute with Confidence
Deliver smooth, disruption-free migrations using best practices honed from complex enterprise projects.

Operate for Impact
Manage, monitor, and fine tune your EVS environment to unlock cost savings and performance gains, then hand over control when your team is ready.
“Amazon Elastic VMware Service enables customers to achieve accelerated timelines and unlock business agility by quickly migrating their VMware based workloads to the cloud, enabling them to maintain existing operational processes so they can focus on delivering value instead of managing infrastructure.”
Matt Crognale, Senior Manager, Migrations and Modernization, Effectual
Amazon EVS Announcement
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