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A guide to budgeting for AWS Backup in VMware virtual environments

As VMware customers navigate the imperative to modernize their virtual environments, the need for reliable and cost-effective data protection has become paramount. Traditionally, evaluating data protection solutions has involved intricate calculations around software licensing, storage costs, and operational expenses. AWS Backup offers VMware customers a simpler, more transparent path forward. By eliminating upfront software fees […]

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Attach an Amazon EC2 key pair to an AWS Backup restore of a VMware virtual machine

Customers run thousands of VMware virtual machines on premises, in VMware Cloud on AWS, and VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts. They use AWS Backup to centrally manage data protection of these VMware environments. Customers, who initiate an Amazon EC2 restore from an AWS Backup for VMware recovery point, encounter a situation where there is no […]

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Simplifying operations for VMware workloads using AWS Backup and VMware Cloud on AWS

Customers use VMware to power their business critical applications on premises. As they adopt cloud, they leverage VMware Cloud on AWS as a vehicle to migrate without refactoring their applications. Customers will still need to protect their application data, provide disaster recovery from events, and migrate data if needed. For a large-scale migration with limited […]

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Automate Amazon S3 File Gateway deployments in VMware with Terraform by HashiCorp

Many customers have adopted an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) process within their organization to streamline and optimize provisioning infrastructure. Without an IaC practice in place, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage the scale of today’s infrastructure. IaC can help your organization manage IT infrastructure needs while also improving consistency and reducing errors and manual configuration. […]

VMware Carbon Black cuts workload costs using Amazon EBS gp3 volumes

VMware Carbon Black is a leader in global cybersecurity specializing in endpoint detection, application control, and next-generation antivirus. They currently support over 8,000 customers using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to orchestrate containers in their microservice architecture and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for their Amazon EKS data volumes. Using Amazon EBS gp2 volumes, […]

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VMware vCenter Disaster Recovery using CloudEndure Disaster Recovery

IT disasters such as data center failures, data corruption, or cyber-attacks can not only disrupt your business, but also cause data loss, impact your revenue, and damage your reputation. Organizations using infrastructure on-premises can significantly reduce disaster recovery (DR) TCO by shifting their secondary data center to the public cloud. CloudEndure Disaster Recovery can replicate […]

Creating and activating File Gateway on VMware

Wouldn’t it be great if your on-premises applications could use AWS Cloud Storage, without the need for any modifications? Do you want to use standard file storage protocols, such as SMB or NFS? If so, you can use File Gateway, which is part of AWS Storage Gateway. File Gateway presents SMB or NFS file shares for […]

Deploy a highly available AWS Storage Gateway on a VMware vSphere cluster

Tens of thousands of customers are using AWS Storage Gateway today for business-critical applications. By providing common storage protocols such as iSCSI, NFS, SMB, and iSCSI VTL, Storage Gateway makes it easy for customers to continue using their existing applications while taking advantage of virtually unlimited cloud storage. Customers use Storage Gateway to simplify storage […]

New on the APN Blog: Storing and Sharing Files with Amazon FSx in a VMware Cloud on AWS Environment

On the AWS Partner Network (APN) blog there is a very informative new post showing you how to deploy a fully managed, shared Windows file system with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and mount it to your virtual machines (VMs) by using VMware Cloud on AWS. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides a fully managed […]