- Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ:AMZN) announces an expansion of VMware Cloud on AWS.
- VMware Cloud availability will now include the AWS U.S. East (N. Virginia) region.
- Regions are AWS geographic areas, which are further broken down into isolated locations called Availability Zones.
- VMware was previously available in the US West (Oregon) region.
- "The momentum for VMware Cloud on AWS is growing rapidly, and VMware and AWS are delivering major new capabilities after only three months of availability while enhancing our strategic relationship with new integrations across our platforms. Customers of VMware Cloud on AWS will be able to migrate application portfolios to the cloud even more rapidly with Hybrid Cloud Extension and AWS Direct Connect, while maintaining the optimal levels of performance, scale, and availability required for mission-critical apps,” says Mark Lohmeyer, VP and GM of VMware’s Cloud Platform Business Unit.
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VMware shares are up 0.4% premarket.
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