Amazon EVS runs VMware Cloud Foundation inside your VPC on bare-metal EC2, with your own Broadcom licences. Rehosting with AWS Application Migration Service drops VMware entirely. Modernizing takes longest and saves most. The cost, speed and risk of each.
Broadcom's move to subscription-only VMware Cloud Foundation bundles pushed many companies to price an exit. On AWS there are three realistic paths, and most estates end up using more than one.
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EVS: a data-center exit with a hard deadline, a team whose skills and tooling are VMware, or workloads that cannot be touched yet. It moves the hardware problem, not the licence problem. Treat it as a staging area.
Rehost: most general-purpose Windows and Linux VMs. AWS Application Migration Service is free for 90 days per server, replicates continuously and lets you test cutover before you commit. Right-size as you go; on-premises VMs are typically over-provisioned.
Modernize: the handful of applications that matter most and change most often, where containers or a managed database will pay back the effort.
Inventory and group VMs by application, owner and dependency. The dependency map decides the wave plan.
Price all three paths per group, including the VCF subscription you would keep under EVS.
Move the easy rehost waves first to build confidence and shrink the VMware footprint, and with it the next licence renewal.
Use EVS only for what cannot move by the deadline, with an exit date written down.
Modernize the few applications where the business case is clear, after they are safely on AWS.
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