Moving an IP address to VMware Cloud on AWS
Calvin Yeh, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
February 2022 (document history)
IP addresses are a strategic component of a hybrid cloud solution. You can use the Bring Your Own IP Address (BYOIP) feature from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to move your own IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to VMware Cloud on AWS. The BYOIP feature enables you to meet the business requirements and goals that are dependent on your existing IP addresses. This guide helps you identify the use cases applicable to a BYOIP solution and identify an IP address migration path for moving your own IP addresses to VMware Cloud on AWS. The migration paths described in this guide are based on AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
This guide assumes the following:
You have deployed a fully operational Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) to VMware Cloud on AWS. For more information, see Deploy an SDDC from the VMC Console
on the VMware website. Your SDDC can communicate with native AWS resources. For more information, see VMware Cloud on AWS with NSX: Communicating with Native AWS Resources
on the VMware website.
Targeted business outcomes
Use this guide as a reference to achieve the following business outcomes:
Assess the strategic value of your IP addresses.
Choose an IP address migration path that aligns with your business requirements and goals.
Reduce the risks and downtime associated with migrating IP addresses.
