AWS bends to Broadcom's will with VMware Cloud Foundation as-a-service

Amazon Web Services has introduced a VMware-as-a-service offering that conforms to Broadcom's licensing schemes. The forthcoming Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) will offer the chance to run Broadcom's flagship VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud stack in the Amazonian cloud. Amazon promises it will be …

[Andy Mac]

AWS bends to Broadcom's will…

More like bends over, and forces their customers down with them…

[Anonymous Coward]

I think AWS just got a humbling lesson in negotiation and realised they are not as dominant as they thought. Now they get to carry on quietly persuading clients to stop Vmware developments and Broadcom get their maximum cake slice while Vmware slowly declines to a lower level like mainframes.

[S O]

Honestly confused why you bothered with the first part, this doesn't hurt Amazon at all. In fact all it means is good pr they can use to demonstrate their own offerings. Also VMware isn't "declining" *to* large servers, they are declining *away* from them in the cloud and have always been a questionable investment off-prem.

The main selling point has always been under the table mass over-provisioning of Windows licenses, that and other features are covered better by dozens of cheaper alternatives and the fact that most services don't need Windows at all any more.

[Anonymous Coward]

Why bother with VMware anything on AWS?

It may be useful as a transition from on-prem to cloud, but you’re not taking advantage of the cloud.

[S O]

This is just a regular business deal, it's not like they were going to turn down contracts for cloud hosting, we are talking about AWS here. As for the terms? Who cares, we don't have to use VMware and I don't plan to.