back to article VMware, AWS preview database-on-vSphere

VMware's quest to automate admins out of a job continued at VMworld, with the company bedding down with Amazon to add a bit of its virtualisation sauce to the AWS Relational Database Service (RDS). The tie-up is pitched at letting VMware customers pull Amazon's cloudy database admin capabilities into their on-premises and …

  1. ozmark
    Pint

    "on premises"

    "on premises" - tears of joy, thank you.

  2. thondwe

    AWS dependency on ESXi

    Wonder what AWS dependencies exist on ESXi then? Baking in more stuff to what should be just a VM management solution smells a bit wrong? (Risks to Security/Performance/Functionality/…)

    But clearly the kick back for VMware running in AWS datacentres - Amazon tries to buy VMware (or Dell, keep VMware and spit out the rest)????

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