This post is co-written with Narayan Bharadwaj and Ashish Aggarwal from ModernZ
Two events make 2026 the year VMware customers cannot put infrastructure decisions off any longer. First, the three-year renewal wave following the Broadcom acquisition is landing now across thousands of enterprise accounts. Second, Broadcom has confirmed publicly that vSphere 8 reaches End of General Support on October 11, 2027 — a hard 13-month deadline for every vSphere 8 customer. For the roughly 300,000 organizations globally that built their infrastructure on VMware[IDC], the renewal conversation now has to answer a bigger question than it did a year ago: what comes next?
For AWS Partners, this is one of the most significant customer-engagement opportunities of the decade. Two cloud platforms on AWS are well suited to the conversation, and customers should choose between them based on their goals. Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) — the strategic AWS…
