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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.8
Amazon EBS offers 20-25% ROI by saving time and resources, enhancing scalability, and eliminating physical disk investments.
Sentiment score
6.6
Nutanix Unified Storage boosts financial efficiency with up to 50% cost savings through improved management, productivity, and centralized security.
As a cloud storage option, it is flexible and cost-effective, eliminating the need for a permanent investment in hard disks.
NoSQL Data Engineer at Extractta
For me, the biggest return on investment when using this solution is that we do not have to have much support staff to run it.
Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability challenge with previous systems is lessened with Nutanix since we can expand by adding new hardware without needing migrations.
Infrastructure Architect & Manager at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
We are saving approximately 20% to 25% compared with the competition.
Global of Central Computing IT Operations Head at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
Amazon EBS support is generally well-received for responsiveness, despite occasional delays, high costs, and chat issues.
Sentiment score
7.6
Nutanix Unified Storage support is highly praised for responsiveness and effectiveness, though complex scenarios may need improvement.
Enterprise support provides access to AWS developers 24/7.
AWS solution architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
They provide instant and chat support, addressing concerns in a timely manner.
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach at Porch Group
Once subscribed, the support team is very responsive, connecting remotely to assist with troubleshooting.
Lead Cloud Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
They come on the call, start troubleshooting immediately, and resolve issues effectively.
Senior System Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
They are very knowledgeable, and if they can't solve the problem, they find the answer within a day or so.
Manager, System Engineering at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
I would give the customer service and technical support a ten out of ten.
PreSales at IKUSI
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.7
Amazon EBS delivers scalability and flexibility, requires manual scaling, supports diverse environments, but lacks auto-scaling for some users.
Sentiment score
7.7
Nutanix Unified Storage offers seamless scalability and integration, allowing efficient management of enterprise workloads and storage expansion.
Amazon EBS is easy to scale up or down as needed.
AWS Consultant at Virtual University
Vertical scaling can be achieved by adding additional volumes whenever the created storage is insufficient.
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach at Porch Group
All cloud solutions permit scalability, and this is an important feature.
Arquitecto De Soluciones De TI at Claro Colombia S.A
This means you don't have to buy everything upfront; you can buy what you need and add more as you grow, which is advantageous.
Sales engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
These three components utilize scalability tools, enabling storage addition to nodes and supporting independent, linear performance growth.
System Engineer at Tata Consultancy
I find the scalability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to be excellent, and I would rate it a ten based on my clients' requirements.
Technical Lead at Cognizant
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Amazon EBS is praised for reliability, ease of use, stable performance, effective replication, and handling increased data loads.
Sentiment score
8.0
Nutanix Unified Storage is highly stable and reliable, with minor bugs swiftly fixed and no major update disruptions.
AWS provides infrastructure stability like data centers, ensuring high stability.
AWS solution architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
I have never had problems with its stability.
NoSQL Data Engineer at Extractta
If the server is stable, then EBS is stable.
Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group
We have not experienced these issues with Nutanix, which I attribute to the all-flash technology, the quality of their platform, and the responsiveness of the hyper-converged infrastructure.
System Administrator II at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is very stable.
Senior System Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
It automatically triggers tasks, causing performance issues.
Nutanix Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon EBS struggles with latency, cost, complex integration, scalability, encryption, multi-region accessibility, and lacks automation and improved support.
Nutanix Unified Storage faces implementation challenges, needing interface, security, and integration improvements, with concerns over licensing and support.
Regarding EBS, if an instance is terminated, the volume is also deleted, which leads to data loss.
DevOps Engineer at SONIX
I would like EBS to have no limitations, similar to stream-like block storage, which can accommodate an unlimited amount of sales.
AWS solution architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
Deployment is not easy as it requires server downtime to map newly created volumes, impacting operations during additional volume additions.
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach at Porch Group
The main concern is pricing, which could deter some customers; addressing this would enhance its appeal.
Senior Solution Software Engineer at Gigamon
The system should move towards AI-driven optimization and enhance S3 object storage capabilities.
Corporate Trainer at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
System downtime can disturb the entire ecosystem and impact all applications.
System Engineer at Tata Consultancy
 

Setup Cost

Amazon EBS pricing varies; seen as costly or efficient, it's affected by storage type and appreciated for transparency.
Nutanix Unified Storage is cost-efficient, reducing operational costs, though setup can be complex and renewal costs high.
For SSD IOPS, you only pay $0.125 per gigabyte.
AWS solution architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
The pay-for-what-you-use model justifies the amount paid, with no extra or hidden charges.
Cloud AWS Fellow at Bytewise Limited
Users are charged only for the data used, not for the allocated volume.
Lead Cloud Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Compared to buying three or four vendor solutions, it is much cheaper.
Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The cost has doubled for the same amount of data, which was a challenge when presenting use case justifications for the increased cost.
Infrastructure Architect & Manager at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has definitely helped reduce our total cost of ownership.
Information Technology Managed Services Provider at SCE
 

Valuable Features

Amazon EBS provides scalable, high-performance storage with integration, encryption, and reliability for diverse workload needs.
Nutanix Unified Storage simplifies management with AI, cybersecurity, high availability, cost-effectiveness, and improved performance across environments.
Amazon EBS is also scalable and provides high availability.
AWS solution architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
EBS provides vertical scaling options to add additional volumes when more storage is required.
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach at Porch Group
Amazon EBS allows seamless changes to the instance type without affecting application availability.
Lead Cloud Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is appreciated for its fault tolerance and redundancy at the cluster level, which ensures reliable storage of files, folders, and other information accessible on the client side.
Nutanix Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The cybersecurity features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) when dealing with unstructured data, such as ransomware threats, provide the ability to detect and back up block-based storage, allowing me to restore repositories or sets of block storage with one button click, which is automatic.
Network Engineer at Alabama A & M University
My experience with using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for data-intensive workloads is that we have many SQL Servers and they perform much better than they did when we used hybrid converged previously.
Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block S...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
35
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Storage (5th)
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
121
Ranking in other categories
All-Flash Storage (7th), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (2nd), Public Cloud Storage Services (3rd), File and Object Storage (3rd), NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Services solutions, they serve different purposes. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is designed for Cloud Storage and holds a mindshare of 2.0%, down 2.2% compared to last year.
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), on the other hand, focuses on Software Defined Storage (SDS), holds 4.8% mindshare, down 5.2% since last year.
Cloud Storage Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)2.0%
Dropbox Business - Enterprise6.9%
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP5.2%
Other85.9%
Cloud Storage
Software Defined Storage (SDS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)4.8%
Red Hat Ceph Storage10.5%
DataCore SANsymphony6.6%
Other78.1%
Software Defined Storage (SDS)
 

Featured Reviews

MuhammadAzhar Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group
Diverse features and affordability drive effective resource management
Amazon EBS offers diverse features. It can be used for multi-purpose storage, supporting single, multiple, or heavy loads. It has different types for various use cases, allowing me to choose based on my specific requirements. The primary advantage of Amazon EBS is affordability compared to other solutions like EFS or FSX. It acts as a hard drive for servers, making it essential for operation.
Amarnath Charugundla - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Tata Consultancy
Unified management and cost-effectiveness lead to positive experiences and future savings
Improvement is necessary wherein the memory or storage should not breach 90%, because if breached, it becomes unmanageable. We have to set alerts or CPU triggering for 95% for the first warning. Other activities on nodes or file systems should be properly maintained. We must monitor the dashboard for P1, P2 alerts in the Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) file share system including SMB, NFS, objects, and blocks. Attention should be maintained for any alerts such as CPU, memory, and RAM alerts, as exceeding these creates issues within teams. If triggered to 95% and forgotten, it crosses the SLA breach, causing disturbances to application, web, and platform teams. Continuous monitoring on the Nutanix dashboard is essential. Even a highly experienced person in Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) cannot provide a 10 rating out of 10 because it is a vast system. I would rate it eight from my perspective.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Construction Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business32
Midsize Enterprise31
Large Enterprise69
 

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Amazon's S3 Glacier or EBS (Elastic Block Store)?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon's S3 Glacier or Elastic Block Store data storage software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Amazon's S3 Glacier, whi...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)?
The cost of Amazon EBS storage is high. I rate the price as eight out of ten. It is expensive to store a lot yet provides significant cost-efficiency as I pay only for the storage time required.
What needs improvement with Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)?
EBS is solid — I won't pretend otherwise. But there are a few things that genuinely frustrate me as someone who works with it regularly. The **snapshot restore latency** is probably my biggest gri...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Unified Storage?
The pricing for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is subscription-based with capacity-based licensing and has moderate to high setup complexity depending on the size of the environment. Costs depend on...
What needs improvement with Nutanix Unified Storage?
One area for improvement I noticed while using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is expanding advanced analytics and predictive capacity planning capabilities to help administrators make even better lo...
What advice do you have for others considering Nutanix Unified Storage?
My advice for others looking into using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is to clearly understand your storage requirements before implementation and evaluate current and future needs for file, object...
 

Also Known As

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Nutanix Files Storage, Nutanix Volumes Block Storage, Nutanix Objects Storage
 

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Sample Customers

Bazaar Voice, Crowd Strike, Adobe, Gamevil, Hess, CopperEgg, TotalJobs Group, SuperCell, Dropcam, Unilever
JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, Volkswagen SAIC, Brighton and Hove City Council, Foresters Financial, Janus International Group, Cloud Comrade, Serco
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