Last Updated: Oct 5, 2020 @ 11:29 pm

The public cloud-hosted VMware Cloud Foundation service comparison table is not designed to be a competitive comparison table. If you are looking for an opinion on which cloud service provider you should use to host your VMware vSphere environment, then this is not the website for you.

I’ve put this table together in order to learn more about the available service offerings. Data on each service has been collected in order to have data points from all service providers available in a single place.

This page will evolve over time as new services/features become available, so follow me twitter @Simonlong_ for updates . If a cell is empty it’s because I haven’t been able to find the information yet. If you notice any incorrect information, please contact me via twitter @Simonlong_ and I will do my best to update ASAP.

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General Information
Solution Name	VMware Cloud on AWS	Google Cloud VMware Engine	Azure VMware Solution	Oracle Cloud VMware Solution	IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions (IC4V Dedicated) AKA. VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
Solution Homepage	https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws	https://cloud.google.com/vmware-engine	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-vmware	https://www.oracle.com/cloud/vmware	https://www.ibm.com/cloud/vmware
Solution Documentation	VMware Cloud on AWS Documentation	Google Cloud VMware Engine Documentation	Azure VMware Solution Documentation	Oracle Cloud VMware Solution Documentation	IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Documentation
General Availability	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Supported Regions	AWS US East (Northern Virginia) AWS US East (Ohio) AWS US West (Northern California) AWS US West (Oregon) AWS Canada (Central) AWS Europe (Stockholm) AWS Europe (Frankfurt) AWS Europe (Ireland) AWS Europe (London) AWS Europe (Paris) AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS South America (Sao Paulo) AWS GovCloud (US West)	US East4 (Northern Virginia) US West2 (South California) Europe (Frankfurt) Europe (London) Asia Pacific (Tokyo)  Asia Pacific (Sydney) Q4 2020 Canada (Montreal) Europe (Amsterdam) Asia Pacific (Singapore) South America (Sao Paulo)	US East US West US South Central Europe West Q3 2020 Australia East Q4 2020 UK South AVS - Availability by region	US East (Ashburn) US West (Phoenix) US West (San Jose) Canada Southeast (Montreal) Canada Southeast (Toronto) Netherlands Northwest (Amsterdam) Switzerland North (Zurich) UK South (London) Germany Central (Frankfurt) UAE East (Dubai) Saudi Arabia West (Jeddah) India South (Hyderabad) India West (Mumbai) Australia East (Sydney) Australia Southeast (Melbourne) Japan East (Tokyo) Japan Central (Osaka) South Korea Central (Seoul) South Korea North (Chuncheon) Brazil East (Sao Paulo)	North America West (San Jose) North America South (Dallas) North America South (Queretaro) North America East (Montreal) North America East (Toronto) North America East (Washington DC) Europe (Frankfurt) Europe (Amsterdam) Europe (London) Europe (Milan) Europe (Oslo) Europe (Paris) Asia Pacific (Chennai) Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Asia Pacific (Sydney) Asia Pacific (Singapore) Asia Pacific (Seoul) Asia Pacific (Tokyo) South America (Sao Paulo)
Service Availability SLA (%)	Single Availability Zone 99.9% Across two or more Availability Zones 99.99% vmw-cloud-aws-service-level-agreement.pdf	Single Zone Cluster with 5 to 16 nodes and FTT=2 or more = 99.99% Cluster with 3 or 4 nodes and FTT=1 = 99.9% Management Interfaces = 99.9% https://cloud.google.com/vmware-engine/sla			Single Availability Zone 99.95% Across two or more Availability Zones 99.999%
Support Provided By	VMware	Google Cloud (CloudSimple)	Microsoft (CloudSimple)	Oracle Cloud	IBM Cloud
Accounts Required	AWS VMware Cloud	Google Cloud	Azure	Oracle Cloud	IBM Cloud
Required Portals	https://aws.amazon.com/console/ https://vmc.vmware.com	https://console.cloud.google.com/	https://portal.azure.com/	Oracle Cloud Console	IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions IBM Cloud Portal
Access to Native Cloud Services	✅ - via AWS Portal	✅	✅	✅	✅
Compliance Certifications	ISO 27001 ISO 27017 ISO 27018 SOC 1 SOC 2 SOC 3 HIPAA GDPR				ISO 27001 ISO 27017 ISO 27018 SOC 1 SOC 2 SOC 3 HIPAA GDPR Privacy Shield
SDDC Information
VCF Deployment (vSphere, NSX-T, VSAN)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Minimum Cluster Size	Full SLA - 2 Hosts (i3.metal hosts only) No SLA - Single-Host (i3.metal hosts only, 30 Day Maximum)	3 Hosts	3 Nodes	3 Hosts	1 Host for non-cluster 2 Hosts for Cluster
Maximum Cluster size	16 Hosts	16 Hosts	16 Nodes	64 Hosts	59 Hosts
Maximum Clusters Per SDDC	10 Clusters (soft limit) 20 Clusters (hard limit)		4 Clusters		30 Clusters (soft limit)
Minimum SDDC Deployment Time	~90 mins	~30 mins			6 hours (fully customizable)
SDDC Network Connectivity Options	AWS Direct Connect NSX L2VPN IPSec VPN (Route or Policy based) VMware HCX	Google Cloud VPN Google Cloud Interconnect Point-to-site VPN Gateway NSX L2VPN IPSec VPN (Route or Policy based) VMware HCX	Azure ExpressRoute VPN Gateway	Oracle FastConnect	Fortinet Fortigate 1G Fortinet Fortigate 10G Juniper vSRX Direct Connect 1.0, 2.0 VMware HCX NSX L2 VPN NSX IPSEC VPN SSL VPN
SDDC Administrator Access (vCenter & ESXi)	Restricted access	Full Administrator Access	Full Administrator Access	Full Administrator Access	Full Administrator Access
API Access	✅ AWS APIs VMware Cloud on AWS API	X (Coming soon)	✅		✅ IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions API
SDDC Lifecycle Management	Managed and scheduled by VMware	Managed by Google, scheduled with the customer	Managed and scheduled by Microsoft	Managed and scheduled by customer	Managed and scheduled by customer
Technical Information
SDDC Compute
ESXi Server Options	I3.metal 2x 2.3 GHz (18 core) CPUs (Broadwell) 512 GiB RAM I3en.metal 2x 2.5 GHz (48 core) CPUs (Cascade Lake - Hyper-threading enabled) 768 GiB RAM R5.metal 2x 2.5 GHz (48 core) CPUs (Skylake) 768 GiB RAM	ve1-standard-72 2x 2.6 GHz (18 core) CPUs (Cascade Lake) 768 GiB RAM	CS28 2x2.2 GHz (28 Cores) 256 GiB RAM CS36 2x 2.3 GHz (36 Cores) 512 GiB RAM CS36m 2x 2.3 GHz (36 Cores) 576 GiB RAM	BM.DenseIO2.52 2x 2.0 GHz (26 core) CPUs (Skylake) 768 GiB RAM	Fully Customizable Server Options
SDDC Storage
ESXi Storage Options	I3.metal 10.7TB NVMe storage I3en.metal ~50TB NVMe storage R5.metal 15 to 35TB in increments of 5 TB	ve1-standard-72 3.2TB NVMe for cache 19.2TB NVMe for data	CS28 5.6TB Raw, 1.6TB Cache (All-Flash) CS36 11.25TB Raw, 3.2TB Cache (All-Flash) CS36m 15.36TB Raw, 3.2TB Cache (All-Flash)	BM.DenseIO2.52 51.2TB NVMe storage	Fully Customizable Storage Options
Support For Third-Party Storage
SDDC Networking
ESXi Networking Options	I3.metal 25Gbps I3en.metal 25Gbps R5.metal 100Gbps	ve1-standard-72 100Gbps	CS36 25Gbps
Supported VMware Cloud Services
HCX (Advanced licensing)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
VMware Cloud Site Recovery or Site Recovery Manager	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
vRealize Operations Cloud	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
vRealize Log Insight Cloud	✅	✅		✅	✅
VMware vRealize Automation Cloud	✅	✅		✅	✅
Hybrid Linked-Mode	✅	X		✅	X