Amazon Elastic VMware Service Doubles Host Capacity per Environment

Amazon EVS increased its maximum supported ESXi hosts per environment from 16 to 32, providing customers greater flexibility in VMware Cloud Foundation domain scaling.

By Oliver Grant · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-05-18 · 1 min read

AI-ASSISTED REPORTING · RETROSPECTIVE ARCHIVE

Retrospective edition: 2026-05-18. Source published: 2026-05-18. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

The increased limit allows customers to consolidate more hosts within a single Amazon EVS environment or partition hosts across clusters as needed, reducing the operational burden of managing multiple environments. This capacity expansion can be requested via service quota increase.

This upgrade simplifies scaling VMware workloads on AWS by allowing configurations with twice as many ESXi hosts per environment, enhancing infrastructure management in all AWS regions where Amazon EVS is offered.

Source & further reading

Amazon EVS enables support for 32 hosts per environment ↗

Source published 2026-05-18. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.