What is VMWare Cloud on AWS?

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If AWS is powered by Amazon's own hypervisor layer then What is VMWare Cloud on AWS

As I basically understand VMWare provides virtualization products such as VMWare ESXi, NSX etc. They sit in between Hardware and Guest OS (User's OS). If I see AWS services, they are powered by Amazon's own virtualization layer. Basically, what I could get as an EC2 instance is nothing but a Virtual Machine running on AWS Cloud. VMWare's ESXi can give me an equivalent VM if I have VMWare's hypervisor layer. AWS offers its services in the form of IaaS (which is possible through virtualization of course their own) If I can think of using virtualization layer from VMWare then its not AWS Cloud services anymore it will be a vitualization layer from VMWare with its pros and cons. And what would be AWS services' role here? Then would Amazon just provide bare metal harware to run VMWare virtualization layer in this case? Then how exactly VMWare Cloud on AWS is going to work? I'm struggling to grasp the understanding of working of this.

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VMware Cloud on AWS is the usage of AWS bare-metal boxes to provide a vSphere environment comprised of vSphere (which is a VCSA VM and ESXi running on bare-metal), vSAN (storage), and NSX (networking) running completely in AWS datacenters and able to access those AWS services available in the deployed region.

The docs pages can probably help answer any further questions. There's also some videos available too: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-on-AWS/index.html

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Customers who has on-premise infrastructure want to move to cloud based infra, But all servers are running on Vmware based infra. Its mainly targeted to migration of products to cloud.

There are added advantages:

Refer : https://www.2ndwatch.com/blog/vmware-cloud-aws/