---
title: "Amazon Web Services (AWS)"
type: entity
tags:
  - AWS
  - Cloud
  - Hybrid-Cloud
sources: [cloud-operating-model-key-strategies-and-best-practices, public-cloud-learning-sessions-opentext-evolving-from-dr-to-recovery-assurance-2]
last_updated: 2026-04-29
---

## Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.

## Aliases
- AWS
- Amazon Web Services

## Key Partnerships
- **VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS)**: AWS partnered with VMware to run VMware workloads natively on AWS infrastructure. The underlying hardware consists of i3.metal and i3en.metal bare metal servers, organized into clusters within availability zones and regions.

## Infrastructure for VMC on AWS
- **i3.metal**: Bare metal server instance used for VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC deployment
- **i3en.metal**: Enhanced bare metal instance with larger storage capacity
- **Clusters**: Organized within availability zones and regions globally
- **Stretched Clusters**: Available across availability zones for increased resilience

## Connections
- [[VMware-Cloud-on-AWS]] ← powered_by ← [[AWS]]
- [[ctp-topic-43-vmware-cloud-on-aws]] ← source ← [[AWS]]
- [[VMware]] ← partners ← [[AWS]]
- [[AWS-Transit-Gateway-TGW]] ← 服务 ← [[AWS]]
- [[ctp-topic-18-wide-area-networking-in-aws-cloud]] ← 平台 ← [[AWS]]

## Sources
- [[ctp-topic-43-vmware-cloud-on-aws]]
- [[ctp-topic-72-implementing-an-enterprise-dr-strategy-using-aws-backup.md]]
- [[ctp-topic-18-wide-area-networking-in-aws-cloud]]