Amazon Elastic VMware Service (AWS EVS) – Links & Resources
My role at Broadcom is to look after VMware-based AWS HyperScaler Solutions — including VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) and Amazon Elastic VMware Service (AWS EVS). This page is a curated, regularly updated collection of shortcuts to the public-facing EVS documentation on Broadcom and AWS’s websites, covering design, pricing, networking, operations, HCX, workloads, and the latest service announcements.
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 |
Setting Up (Prerequisites & Hosts)
Operations
Environment Lifecycle Management
AI-Powered Operational Monitoring (Digital Twin)
Networking
EVS Architecture (VPC, VLAN Subnets, Route Server, NSX)
Monitoring
Monitor EVS VPCs with Amazon CloudWatch
Security
Identity & Access Management (IAM)
IAM Identity-Based Policy Examples
Secure EVS with AWS Network Firewall
Pricing
External Storage
Performance
Walkthrough
HCX
Migrating from VMware Cloud on AWS to EVS
Workloads
Oracle Database on EVS + FSx for ONTAP: Best Practices
IAC
Automated Setup for Amazon EVS (AWS Solution)
Deploying VCF 9.1 on EVS: End-to-End Automation
Deploy FSx for ONTAP with Terraform