What You Need To Know About VMware Cloud On Amazon Web Services

Almost after a year of the announcement, VMware Cloud on AWS is finally available to customers. At VMWorld 2017, both the companies highlighted the benefits of the partnership. Existing businesses using VMware stack can easily extend their virtualized data center to Amazon’s public cloud.

VMware’s decision to embrace AWS as its public cloud surprised industry analysts as well as customers. After all, AWS was an arch rival that continued to threaten the core business model of virtualization and private cloud.

Subsequently, VMware sold vCloud Air, the original public cloud offering that was launched with much fanfare in 2008. It gave the company the opportunity to stay focused on its bets.

Will this deal help VMware in the long term? What does it mean to AWS, who is already the leader in the public cloud market? How will this partnership influence Microsoft? Let's find out.

VMware has done the right thing by getting rid of its public cloud business. Developing the data center management software is very different from managing the data center in itself. While VMware has proven track record of developing the virtualization platform and management tools, it realized it cannot handle massive data centers spread across the globe. Having taken the crucial decision of moving away from the public cloud, VMware swallowed its pride when it approached its key competitor for partnership.

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Janakiram MSV is an analyst, advisor, and architect. Follow him on Twitter,  Facebook and LinkedIn.