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Amazon EVS is now available in Seoul, Zurich, and Stockholm!

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Hi, I'm Shii-chan! Today I've got a Region expansion announcement from AWS, so let's dive in!

AWS What's New aws.amazon.com

What was announced?

According to AWS What's New, Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now available in three additional Regions:

  • Asia Pacific (Seoul)
  • Europe (Zurich)
  • Europe (Stockholm)

Amazon EVS lets you run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within your own Amazon VPC, on EC2 bare-metal instances powered by AWS Nitro. You can set up a complete VCF environment in just a few hours.

The story so far

Until now, Amazon EVS was only available in a limited set of Regions. That meant organizations wanting to move their on-premises VMware workloads to the cloud sometimes didn't have a nearby Region to choose from, which could be a real obstacle if data residency or low latency mattered to them.

What changes

With this expansion, users in and around Korea, and in central and northern Europe, can now run Amazon EVS closer to home. That brings a few benefits:

  • Lower latency thanks to closer proximity to end users
  • Easier compliance with data residency or sovereignty requirements
  • More options for high availability and resiliency as part of a redundancy strategy

This should make it easier for organizations looking to retire aging data center infrastructure, reduce operational risk, or meet a deadline for exiting a data center.

Dive Deep

All existing Amazon EVS features carry over to the new Regions. Per the announcement, that includes support for VCF 9.0 and 9.1, along with the latest VMware features such as memory tiering. The original announcement doesn't mention pricing or setup steps, so if you're curious, check out the Amazon EVS product detail page and user guide.

Wrap-up

  • Amazon EVS is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Stockholm)
  • Amazon EVS runs VCF directly inside your VPC on EC2 bare-metal instances
  • Existing features, including VCF 9.0/9.1 support and memory tiering, are available in the new Regions too
  • Expect lower latency, easier data residency compliance, and stronger redundancy options

This is great news if you're planning to move an on-premises VMware environment to AWS, especially if you're based around Korea, central Europe, or northern Europe!

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