Last Updated: Mar 30, 2021 @ 11:09 pm

The table of information 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-west2 (Los Angeles) us-east4 (Northern Virginia) northamerica-northeast1 (Montreal) southamerica-east1 (Sao Paulo) europe-west1 (London) europe-west3 (Frankfurt) europe-west4 (Netherlands) asia-northeast1 (Tokyo)  asia-southeast1 (Singapore) australia-southeast1 (Sydney) GCVS - Cloud locations	East US West US North Central US Canada Central West Europe UK South Japan East Australia East 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% Service Level Agreement for VMware Cloud™ on AWS	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% Google Cloud VMware Engine Service Level Agreement (SLA)	Single Availability Zone 99.9% Azure VMware management tools (vCenter Server and NSX Manager) 99.9% SLA for Azure VMware Solution		Single Availability Zone 99.95% Across two or more Availability Zones 99.999%
Support Provided By	VMware	Google	Microsoft	Oracle	IBM
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	VMware Cloud on AWS Compliance	Google Cloud Compliance	Microsoft Azure Compliance	Oracle Cloud Compliance	IBM Cloud Compliance
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	32 Hosts	16 Nodes	64 Hosts	59 Hosts
Maximum Clusters Per SDDC	10 Clusters (soft limit) 20 Clusters (hard limit)		12 Clusters		30 Clusters (soft limit)
Minimum SDDC Deployment Time	~90 mins	~30 mins (Fast-Deploy) ~90 mins (Standard)	~90 mins	~150 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 Oracle VPN Connect 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
SDDC Administrator Access (vCenter & ESXi)	Restricted access	Full Administrator Access	Restricted access	Full Administrator Access	Full Administrator Access
API Access	✅ AWS APIs VMware Cloud on AWS API	X (Coming soon)	✅	✅ Oracle Cloud VMware Solution API	✅ 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	ve1-standard-72 2x 2.6 GHz (18 core) CPUs (Cascade Lake) 768 GiB RAM	AV36 2x 2.3 GHz (36 Cores) CPUs (Skylake) 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 2x vSAN Disk Groups 1x 1.73TB NVMe - Cache Tier 3x 1.73TB NVMe (Total 5.2TB) - Capacity Tier) I3en.metal 4x vSAN Disk Groups 4x 1.8TB NVME (Total 7.2TB) - Cache Tier 28x 1.8TB NVMe (Total 50.4TB) - Capacity Tier	ve1-standard-72 2x vSAN Disk Groups 1x 3.2TB NVMe - Cache Tier 3x 3.2TB NVMe (Total 9.26) - Capacity Tier	AV36 2x vSAN Disk Group 1x 1.6TB NVMe - Cache Tier 4x 1.92TB SSD (Total 7.68TB) - Capacity Tier	BM.DenseIO2.52 1x vSAN Disk Group 1x 5.82TB NVMe - Cache Tier 7x 5.82TB NVMe (Total 40.7TB) - Capacity Tier	Fully Customizable Storage Options
Support For Third-Party Storage
SDDC Networking
ESXi Networking Options	I3.metal 1 x 25Gbps I3en.metal 1 x 25Gbps	ve1-standard-72 4 x 25Gbps	AV36 2 x 25Gbps	BM.DenseIO2.52 2 x 25Gbps
Supported VMware Cloud Services
HCX (Advanced licensing)	✅	✅	✅	✅	X
VMware Cloud Site Recovery or Site Recovery Manager	✅	✅ SRM only	✅	✅ SRM only	X
vRealize Operations Cloud	✅	X	X	X	X
vRealize Log Insight Cloud	✅	X	X	X	X
VMware vRealize Automation Cloud	✅	X	X	X	X
Hybrid Linked-Mode	✅	X	X	✅	X