Purchasing and onboarding

When purchasing the service and preparing for the first SDDC deployment, you need to choose a couple of options. These options may have a large impact on the further operations of the service, so make sure your choices are well thought out, as you will not be able to change some of them moving forward.

Purchasing and funding

When purchasing the service, you can select one of the following options:

• A direct VMware purchase
• AWS resell
• Purchasing through a Managed Service Provider (MSP)

VMware Cloud on AWS supports all three routes to the market. Depending on your purchase strategy, you may find one or other better suited to your needs.

Note

Some services available for VMware Cloud on AWS can only be purchased directly from VMware, for example, Microsoft host-based licenses for workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS.

When purchasing from VMware, you can choose how you want to pay for the service:

• VMware Purchasing Programs...