Document history for the Amazon Elastic VMware Service User Guide
The following table describes the documentation releases for Amazon Elastic VMware Service.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Added documentation for accessing the Amazon EVS Custom Addon depot. You can use the | May 21, 2026 | |
Amazon EVS now supports up to 32 hosts per EVS environment. | May 18, 2026 | |
Updated the Setting up guide and the deployment prerequisite checklist to identify which setup tasks apply only when Amazon EVS installs VCF (VCF 5.2.x). In Self-deployed mode, VCF license keys and VCF management appliance DNS records are not required at environment creation time. | May 6, 2026 | |
Updated the Getting started guide to clarify that it covers environment creation with VCF 5.2.x (where Amazon EVS installs VCF), and to reference the new Self-deployed mode guide. | May 6, 2026 | |
Amazon EVS now supports Self-deployed mode, in which Amazon EVS provisions the AWS infrastructure for your environment and you install VCF yourself. Self-deployed mode enables VCF 9.0.x and 9.1.x deployments and gives you direct control over VCF installation. The new Getting started with Self-deployed mode guide covers prerequisites, environment creation with | May 6, 2026 | |
Amazon EVS now supports the i7i.metal-24xl instance type for use with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments. This bare-metal instance type is available across all VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) versions. | April 27, 2026 | |
Added user guides for managing Amazon EVS environment connectors and entitlements. Connectors establish a persistent connection between Amazon EVS and a VCF appliance, enabling features such as Windows License Included. Entitlements allow you to enable or remove Windows Server license coverage for virtual machines in your Amazon EVS environment. | April 20, 2026 | |
Amazon EVS has updated the managed policy | March 23, 2026 | |
Amazon EVS now supports VCF-5.2.2 allowing the ability to specify supported combinations of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and ESX software versions when setting up your EVS environments and hosts. | January 20, 2026 | |
Amazon EVS was released in the US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan), Mexico (Central), and South America (São Paulo) Regions. | December 15, 2025 | |
Amazon EVS was released in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central) and Europe (Paris) Regions. | November 6, 2025 | |
Amazon EVS released in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Europe (London) Regions | Amazon EVS was released in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Europe (London) Regions. | September 30, 2025 |
Amazon EVS now allows you to securely migrate and stretch your layer 2 networks from your on-premises data centers to Amazon EVS environments over the public internet. | September 18, 2025 | |
Amazon EVS has updated the managed policy | August 14, 2025 | |
Updated the AWS managed policy AmazonEVSServiceRolePolicy. | August 4, 2025 | |
Amazon EVS released environment count per AWS account quota. The environment count per AWS account quota represents the maximum number of Amazon EVS environments that can be created in a given account and Region. | July 8, 2025 | |
Amazon EVS was released in the Europe (Ireland) Region. | June 18, 2025 | |
The AWS managed policy AmazonEVSServiceRolePolicy was released. | June 9, 2025 | |
The Amazon Elastic VMware Service User Guide was released. The Amazon EVS User Guide describes all Amazon EVS concepts and provides instructions on using the various features with both the console and the command line interface. | June 9, 2025 |
