This IDC Market Note discusses AWS’ introduction of the Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) — a native AWS service allowing customers to deploy VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) within their Amazon VPCs — at re:Invent. EVS offers full VCF license portability as well as various consumption models and enables partners to offer more managed experiences. This announcement is the latest evolution of the “coopetition” AWS-VMware relationship post–Broadcom acquisition.