A collection of useful links for the Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS)
My role at Broadcom is to look after the VMware based on AWS HyperScaler Solutions. As of today that is VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) and Elastic VMware Service EVS.
This is a collection of my shortcuts to the public facing EVS docs on Broadcom and AWS’s websites.
It will get updated as more information becomes public
Table of Contents
Service Status
Service Announcement
Amazon Elastic VMware Service: Start your modernization journey
Reinvent Media
2025
A complete guide to Amazon EVS: Unlock AWS scale for VMware workloads (MAM201)
Optimizing storage costs for Amazon EVS with FSx for ONTAP (MAM101)
2024
Amazon Elastic VMware Service: Start your modernization journey with AWS (MAM119)
Design
NSX Edge Cluster Deployment – For Operations Automation and Logs
Management Sizing
A few people have asked me what the management stack in VCF looks like and how much resource is consumed. Here are the specs of the virtual machines that get deployed in the current version
| Component | vCPU | Memory (GB) | Disk (Gib) |
|---|---|---|---|
| vCentre | 8 | 30 | 916 |
| SDDC Manager | 4 | 16 | 909 |
| NSX Manager | 6 | 24 | 300 |
| NSX Manager | 6 | 24 | 300 |
| NSX Manager | 6 | 24 | 300 |
| NSX Edge | 4 | 8 | 197 |
| NSX Edge | 4 | 8 | 197 |
| Total | 38 | 134 | 3118 |