The use case for Ravello Cloud Service consists of a number of use cases that are advertised – includng: • • PoCs and • IT operations • • Production enterprise applications • Training. It allows organizations to have the ability to seamlessly deploy VMware or KVM hypervisor based systems on top of AWS or without any modification to the VMs, network, or storage. Ravello enables enterprises to leverage the public cloud for data-center applications without the need for totally reengineering systems away from their current underlying platform such as VMware. This is accomplished by Ravello running nested virtualization (running a hypervisor within a hypervisor) and network overlay technology with their own custom hypervisor called HVX. The nested virtualization technology allows not only running but also layer 2 network services between on-prem and the Ravello Cloud Service. Ravello makes use of an automated flavor of provisioning called blueprinting which allows quick provisioning and deprovisioning of resources.