VCF 9.1 landed recently enough that EVS support arriving in the same breath is notable — AWS is tracking VMware's release cadence more tightly than it used to. Operators get complete ownership of installation, upgrades, and day-two operations, which matters if your compliance posture requires you to control the hypervisor stack rather than delegate it. For shops still running on-prem VCF who've been watching EVS from the sidelines, 9.x support closes a version-gap argument that was easy to raise. Whether that tips the calculus toward migration depends on your licensing situation with Broadcom, but the infrastructure excuse is thinner now.