evs

For a mid-market software estate (~280 VMs, $340k/yr Broadcom renewal), splitting 60% MGN rehost + 25% EVS relocate + 15% replatform cut parallel-run from 22 to 16 weeks — without forcing one hypervisor strategy.

Amazon EVS runs vSphere/NSX/vSAN natively on AWS bare metal. No VMware license renegotiation, no application changes, no VMC on AWS partnership. The 2025 VMware cloud migration path.