How to Migrate VM from Amazon EC2 to VMware with Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

Vinchin Backup & Recovery supports easy VM migration from Amazon EC2 to VMware. Learn the steps for a fast and secure move. This guide helps you keep your business running during the process.

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Updated by Darlene Yan on 2025/08/21

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  • How to migrate VM from Amazon EC2 to VMware in Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

Vinchin Backup & Recovery is a powerful solution for data protection, disaster recovery, and virtual machine migration. One of its standout features is V2V migration. Vinchin supports cross-platform VM migration across more than 19 virtualization platforms, including VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, oVirt, OLVM, RHV, XCP-ng, XenServer, OpenStack, Amazon EC2 and more. This means you can easily move your Amazon EC2 virtual machines to any VMware environment.

With just a few simple steps, you can migrate an Amazon EC2 VM to VMware while keeping your business running smoothly. Whether you want to improve disaster recovery or optimize your infrastructure, Vinchin offers a stable and reliable way to handle VM migrations with ease.

How to migrate VM from Amazon EC2 to VMware in Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

Before you migrate an Amazon EC2 VM to VMware using Vinchin Backup & Recovery, make sure both your original Amazon EC2 instance and target VMware hosts are added in the backup system. You should also have already created a backup of your Amazon EC2 using Vinchin Backup & Recovery.

Follow these steps to complete the migration:

  • Step 1: Go to your backup data in Vinchin and preview the Amazon EC2 backup. Select any restore point for the desired VM.

  • Step 2: Choose the VMware host as the restore destination.

  • Step 3: Pick your preferred restore strategies (or simply click Next).

  • Step 4: Submit the job.

That’s it! Your Amazon EC2 virtual machine will be migrated safely to your chosen VMware environment.

Vinchin provides free migration runs so you can test its capabilities risk-free. Download our trial version now for a full-featured 60-day free trial! Our expert engineers are available to help troubleshoot any issues during testing and assist you with seamless virtual machine migrations.


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