- Now let's talk about VMware Cloud on AWS.
With VMware Cloud on AWS,
we have the ability to access an integrated solution
developed by AWS and VMware.
So AWS and VMware got together and said hey,
there's some synergy here.
There's a lot of people still using VMware,
a lotta people that still want to continue using it,
but at the same time,
want to leverage the extensibility
or the ability to expand into AWS
and gain the benefits of AWS as well.
And so this allows us
to either migrate our vSphere-based environments to AWS
or simply extend those existing vSphere environments
that we already have.
And so by doing that, by extending our existing environment
into AWS, we still get a single pane of glass
across both on premises and AWS,
allowing us to manage
those existing vSphere-based environments.
Now it is worth noting that this is sold, delivered
and supported by VMware.
So in order for us to sign up for this
and to start using this,
we go directly to VMware in order to make this happen.
And so when we provision VMware on AWS,
this is launched on bare metal, single tenant environments.
And so it means that we can continue using
all of the tools that we've come to rely on,
such as vSphere, vSAN, NSX and vCenter Server.
So for those of us who have significant environments
that are already based on vSphere
and we want to continue using those,
VMware Cloud on AWS is a really great option.