Amazon Web Services is taking the battle to VMware with new plugin

In case you didn’t believe Amazon is hungry for public cloud revenue from the biggest businesses, get this: Amazon has announced a new plugin for VMware’s popular vCenter software for managing data center infrastructure. Admins of VMware-based on-premises data centers can now set up and manage Amazon cloud resources right from within vCenter with the new AWS Management Portal, according to a blog post on the new plugin from Amazon cloud chief evangelist Jeff Barr. And admins can move virtual machines from their data centers to Amazon’s cloud.