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VMware Cloud Services Security Overview

August 5, 2019

This document provides a general overview of the security controls implemented in various VMware Cloud™ Services offerings that run on the Amazon Web Services infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The intent is to provide readers with an understanding of how VMware approaches security for its cloud offerings, the key mechanisms and processes VMware uses to manage information security, and insight into the shared responsibility for providing security in a modern cloud computing environment.

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