AWS for VMware Partner Offerings

AWS offers the most comprehensive set of migration and modernization options for VMware-based workloads - from relocating to Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), to rehosting on Amazon EC2, containerizing with Amazon EKS, or transitioning to running third-party hypervisors in the cloud like Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS. AWS Partners have the skills, expertise, and AWS-validated capabilities to tackle any of these pathways so you can focus on business outcomes rather than migration complexity. Whether your priority is speed, cost optimization, operational continuity, or long-term modernization, partners work across every stage of your journey to reduce uncertainty, accelerate execution, and deliver measurable results.

Organizations migrating VMware workloads without specialized tools face weeks or months of manual dependency mapping, limited visibility into compatibility issues, and high risk of extended downtime. ISV technology partners eliminate these bottlenecks with validated tools that automate discovery, assessment, migration execution, and ongoing operations across the entire cloud journey. Consulting partners pair ISV tooling with AWS Transform - an agentic AI-powered service that automates the full modernization lifecycle from dependency mapping to network translation and Amazon EC2 optimization, performing networking translations nearly 80 times faster than traditional manual approaches. Together, they compress multi-year migration plans into months or weeks - with partners in pilot programs reporting execution times improved by up to 90% while reducing manual effort by 80%

AWS Partners absorb the complexity of large-scale VMware migrations so you can focus on achieving scale. Mapping dependencies across thousands of VMs, predicting resource requirements, and maintaining business continuity are challenges these partners have already solved repeatedly across diverse industries and workload types. To earn APN specializations such as the AWS Migration and Modernization Competency, partners must pass rigorous technical validation and demonstrate proven customer success, ensuring you work with teams whose expertise is battle-tested. The results speak for themselves: MAP partners helped customers reach their first migration milestone 41% faster, with 37% faster migrations on average in 2025.

Choose the engagement model that fits your needs: self-managed migrations with partner tooling and advisory support, co-managed approaches that blend your team's expertise with partner capabilities, or fully managed services where partners handle everything from migration execution to ongoing operations including monitoring, patching, capacity planning, and 24/7 support. AWS funding programs provide assessment support, implementation assistance, and service credits to offset migration costs.