Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 @ 6:17 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.

NOTE: Table is horizonatally scrollable

General Information
Solution Name	VMware Cloud on AWS	Google Cloud VMware Engine	IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions (IC4V Dedicated) AKA. VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud	Oracle Cloud VMware Solution	Azure VMware Solution
Solution Homepage	https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws	https://cloud.google.com/vmware-engine	https://www.ibm.com/cloud/vmware	https://www.oracle.com/cloud/vmware	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-vmware
Solution FAQ	AWS FAQ VMware FAQ		https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-getting-started		https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-vmware/#faq
General Availability	✅	✅	✅	✅	X (Preview Only)
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) Q3 2020 Europe (Frankfurt) Europe (London) Asia Pacific (Sydney) Asia Pacific (Tokyo)  Q4 2020 Canada (Montreal) Europe (Amsterdam) Asia Pacific (Singapore) South America (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)		In Preview US East Europe West Q3 2020 Australia East Q4 2020 UK South AVS - Availability by region
Service Availability SLA (%)	Single Availability Zone 99.9% Across two or more Availability Zones 99.99%	Single Zone 99.99%	Single Availability Zone 99.95% Across two or more Availability Zones 99.999%
Support Provided By	VMware	Google Cloud	IBM Cloud	Oracle Cloud	Microsoft
Accounts Required	AWS VMware Cloud	Google Cloud	IBM Cloud
Required Portals	https://aws.amazon.com/console/ https://vmc.vmware.com	https://console.cloud.google.com/	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, VSAN)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Minimum Cluster Size	Full SLA - 3 Hosts No SLA - Single-Host (I3 hosts only, 30 Day Maximum)	3 Hosts	1 Host for non-cluster 2 Hosts for Cluster	3 Hosts
Maximum Cluster size	16 Hosts	16 Hosts	59 Hosts
Maximum Clusters Per SDDC	10 (soft limit) 20 (hard limit)		30 (soft limit)
Minimum SDDC Deployment Time	~90 mins	~30 mins	6 hours (fully customizable)
SDDC Network Connectivity Options	AWS Direct Connect NSX L2VPN NSX IPSec VPN VMware HCX	Google Cloud VPN Google Cloud Interconnect NSX L2VPN NSX IPSec VPN VMware HCX	Fortinet Fortigate 1G Fortinet Fortigate 10G Juniper vSRX Direct Connect 1.0, 2.0 VMware HCX NSX L2 VPN NSX IPSEC VPN SSL VPN	Oracle FastConnect
SDDC vCenter Access	Restricted access	Full Administrator Access	Full Administrator Access	Full Administrator Access
API Access	AWS APIs VMware Cloud on AWS API	X (Coming soon)	Full API access for all IBM Cloud VMware automation Full API availability for Native VMware Full API access to IBM Cloud Native services Full API Access to 3rd party vendors deployed on SDDC stack
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 (Skylake) 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	Fully Customizable Server Options	BM.DenseIO2.52 2x 2.0 GHz (26 core) CPUs (Skylake) 768 GiB RAM	CS28 2x2.2 GHz (28 Cores) 256 GiB RAM CS36 2x 2.3 GHz (36 Cores) 512 GiB RAM
SDDC Storage
ESXi Storage Options	I3.metal 10.7TB NVMe storage I3en.metal 45.8TB NVMe storage R5.metal 15 to 35TB in increments of 5 TB	ve1-standard-72 19.2TB NVMe storage	Fully Customizable Storage Options	BM.DenseIO2.52 51.2TB NVMe storage	CS36 5.6TB Raw, 1.6TB Cache (All-Flash) CS28 11.25TB Raw, 3.2TB Cache (All-Flash)
Support For Third-Party Storage
SDDC Networking
ESXi Networking Options	I3.metal 25Gbps I3en.metal 100Gbps R5.metal 100Gbps	ve1-standard-72 100Gbps
Supported VMware Cloud Services
HCX	✅	✅	✅	X	✅
Site Recovery	✅	✅	✅
vRealize Operations Cloud	✅	✅	✅		✅
vRealize Log Insight Cloud	✅	✅	✅
VMware vRealize Automation Cloud	✅	✅	✅
Horizon 7 Support	✅	✅	✅
Hybrid Linked-Mode	✅	X	X