AWS promotes itself as alternative to its own VMware service

Amazon Web Services is doing something rather odd – promoting itself as a migration target for users of its own VMware Cloud on AWS service. The promo appeared in recent days with the title "Save when you migrate VMware Cloud on AWS workloads to AWS." Those who take up the offer are even eligible for $400 in cloudy credit for …

[vogon00]

"Perhaps because The Register understands the service is unlikely to continue in its present form."

That, or the marketeers have been using AI to write their content and conveniently forgetting to proof-read, or think!

[Crypto Monad]

AWS: "We had an agreement with VMware to resell their service"

Broadcom: "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further"

[An_Old_Dog]

"Software-Defined Data Center"?

That sounds like yet another useless abstraction.

[JamesTGrant]

Re: "Software-Defined Data Center"?

Eventually there will be a single API call: PUT ‘doTheStuff’ that’ll be it - for everything.

[sedregj]

Re: "Software-Defined Data Center"?

"That sounds like yet another useless abstraction."

When you have enough stuff in your data centre(s) it becomes impractical to fire up the web/ssh/pigeon interface of each device/switch/whatevs to configure them. At that point you discover things like Ansible and the rest.

This is "orchestration". You define your networks: VLANs, 802.1Q tags, QinQ n that and IP schemes. You define your network access policies (firewall rules). You define your host systems and then your virty systems and so on and so on. On top of all that you define your apps and how they work. That is a very simplistic description.

Software defined really isn't useless - its just programming or scripting something.

[43300]

"Amazon Web Services is doing something rather odd – promoting itself as a migration target for users of its own VMware Cloud on AWS service."

Not sure why it's odd - the Broadcom takeover of VMWare has made everyone wary. Plus by hosting direct on AWS, Amazon then controls and owns the whole stack without any of the customer payments going to a third party hypervisor provider.