Less than a week after VMware Inc. announced the debut of its cloud on-demand service with Amazon Web Services Inc. in Europe, the company has detailed plans to bring the service to more new regions, including Australia and Japan.

The plans are noted in a cloud product roadmap posted on VMware’s site that was spied by The Register. The roadmap details a bunch of services – some existing and some in development – that lay out VMware’s future cloud aspirations.

The roadmap bunches each of VMware’s cloud services into one of four categories. The majority have already been tagged as “Available,” but there are a number of interesting projects categorized as “Developing,” “Planning” or in “Preview.”

During last week’s announcement, VMware promised it would make its tie-in with AWS available in the Asia Pacific region “soon,” and the product roadmap suggests that wasn’t a lie. The company clearly states its plans to add new VMware on AWS regions in Japan, Sydney, the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and elsewhere in Europe and APAC.

Other services on the “Planning” list include “vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode support for multiple software defined data centers,” which is designed to enhance the hybrid management of resources across multiple VMware SDDCs, according to the roadmap. The company is also planning to add “vMotion between SDDCs deployed in different regions” so customers can live migrate virtual machines between SDDCs in different regions.

Since they’re still in the planning stage, these services might not launch for a while, but VMware has plenty of other new initiatives in the pipeline that may not be so far off.

These include an “MSP Billing API” and an “MSP Usage API” on the “Developing” list that suggest VMware is looking offload much of the day to day running of VMware on AWS deployments to managed services providers. Backing up this theory is a newly published blog post from the company that states: “VMware Cloud on AWS will be available for VMware Cloud Provider Program (VCPP) partners via the Managed Service Provider (MSP) program using commitment based contracts.”

Another interesting tidbit from the “Developing” list is that VMware will enable customers to choose “a particular day and time” in the week to schedule VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC maintenance, which is a necessity for the service.

Finally a quick look at the “Preview” selection reveals a list of new services that will likely show up in general availability before too long. These include “Stretched Clusters for VMware Cloud on AWS,” which suggests that customers will soon have new options for higher availability of their applications.

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