AWS offers hybrid cloud with on-prem hardware, VMware help

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has taken square aim at the data centre by tying in VMware technology and rolling out two new services and on-premise hardware to help customers build and support hybrid clouds.The new service, called Outposts, lets users choose between on premises servers and storage, which they can order in quarter, half, and full rack units.Outposts can be upgraded with the latest hardware and next-generation instances to run all native AWS and VMware applications, AWS stated.A second version VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts lets customers use the a VMware control plane and APIs to run the hybrid environment.“The AWS native variant of AWS Outposts allows you to use the same exact APIs and control plane you use in the AWS cloud, but on-premises," AWS wrote on its website. "You will be able to run Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Elastic Block Store on Outposts.