Amazon Elastic VMware Service now integrates with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), an AWS service that enables you to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, now integrates with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed AWS service built on NetApp’s ONTAP file system. With this integration, Amazon EVS customers can use FSx for ONTAP as a scalable, high-performance external datastore for their VCF environments on AWS, enabling them to benefit from cost savings through independent scaling of storage and compute, and automated data tiering. If you’re running VMware with ONTAP on-premises, you can use the same tools and workflows to easily migrate those workloads to AWS and maintain operational consistency.

NetApp ONTAP is commonly used as the underlying storage for VMware workloads like databases, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and line-of-business applications due to its advanced data management features such as snapshots, clones, replication, and storage efficiencies. With this integration, you can improve agility and reduce costs by scaling storage independently from compute, improve data protection, and further optimize costs with automated data tiering to low-cost storage and storage efficiencies. And, you can now migrate and extend your VMware workloads easily to AWS while leveraging the same data management capabilities.

The Amazon EVS integration with FSx for ONTAP is now available for public preview in all AWS Regions where both Amazon EVS and FSx for ONTAP are available. To get started, visit the Amazon EVS website. For more information, visit the FSx for ONTAP documentation.