CenturyLink, a VMware premier cloud provider partner, on Thursday launched the CenturyLink Private Cloud for Vmware Cloud on AWS, a fully managed service, and also announced five major enhancements to its CenturyLink Private Cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The news comes ahead of next week’s VMWorld in San Francisco. 

The new service delivers an integrated hybrid cloud solution. The platform can extend on-premises vSphere environments to a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure.  

CenturyLink’s David Shacochis

“As an innovator in the software-defined data center, this is another milestone on our journey to hybrid cloud solutions, enabling users to tap into private cloud resources anywhere our global network can reach,” said David Shacochis, vice president of product management for IT solutions at CenturyLink. “These advances are fueled by CenturyLink’s decades of expertise and mature relationships with both VMware and AWS.” 

The enhancements to CenturyLink Private Cloud on VCF help to link public cloud efficiencies to private cloud and edge-connected computing solutions. CenturyLink recently unveiled a new edge-focused strategy. 

The five enhancements include: 

CenturyLink’s Paul Savill

“These latest upgrades are great examples of CenturyLink’s innovation to give our customers more ways to tap into the power of the software-defined data center and our robust global network,” said Paul Savill, senior vice president, product management at CenturyLink. “For workloads that don’t fit cleanly into a public cloud environment, or workloads that require greater proximity to the network edge, our private cloud portfolio enables the enterprise to address these use cases with agility and efficiency.”