Customers brace for bumpy ride
Broadcom has ended the right of Amazon Web Services to resell VMware Cloud on AWS, meaning customers will now have a direct relationship only with VMware by Broadcom, casting doubt over the long-term future of the product.that AWS was somewhat confusingly pitching for users of the VMware Cloud on AWS service – which is hosted on AWS – to migrate their workloads to native AWS services instead.
However, customers who have active one or three-year subscriptions with monthly payments that were purchased from AWS will continue to be invoiced by the cloud giant for the duration of the contract term. VMware Cloud on AWS is an oddity in that it was jointly engineered by both VMware and AWS to operate on dedicated, bare-metal infrastructure. It is also operated as a managed service by VMware. The service is based onBefore now, customers had two options for purchasing – through VMware, with it as the seller of record and doing the billing, or by AWS, with it as seller of record and doing the billing.
At the same time, it appears that Microsoft's attempt to lure disaffected VMware customers is not as appealing as it might appear at first glance.
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