AWS Outposts vs Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Nutanix are both solutions in the Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.3, while Nutanix is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.5. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 15.4% mindshare in HCCP, compared to Nutanix’s 6.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and AWS Outposts both compete in the enterprise cloud infrastructure space. NCI appears to have the upper hand with its ease of administration, high availability, and comprehensive suite of features.

Features: NCI offers highly available configurations, ease of administration, and robust data management features like deduplication and compression. Scripting and automation lower overhead for IT teams. AWS Outposts provide seamless integration with AWS cloud services, offering consistent APIs for managing on-premises and cloud resources. It extends AWS infrastructure to on-premises settings.

Room for Improvement: NCI users would like enhanced network support, such as site-to-site replication and hypervisor versatility. Pricing transparency and improved software-defined networking are also desired. AWS Outposts can be costly to set up and deploy, with users requesting better support for localization with currency and logistics in mind.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NCI deployment is straightforward for on-premises and private cloud. Nutanix is noted for its excellent customer service and technical support. AWS Outposts, while enabling AWS cloud service integration, presents logistical challenges due to its onsite shipping and installation needs.

Pricing and ROI: NCI is valued as cost-effective for large deployments due to its feature set and infrastructure efficiency, though its upfront costs can be high. ROI often realized within two years through reduced operational costs. AWS Outposts can be more expensive, challenging for smaller enterprises, with its ROI aligning with long-term cloud integration strategies for larger organizations.

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Outposts

Ranking in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms

4th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructur...

Ranking in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms

5th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

197

Ranking in other categories

Software Defined Storage (SDS) (3rd), HCI (3rd), Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms category, the mindshare of AWS Outposts is 15.4%, down from 19.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is 6.0%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PraveenS

Design Engineer at Cyient Limited

Has the ability to provide interfaces for events and allows you to work both offline and online

Providing online support has proven to be quite valuable. However, it's important to note that this isn't so much an improvement, but rather a standard practice for solutions like Azure Stack or AWS Outpost. Typically, the respective companies send their engineers for installation at the customer's premises, ensuring on-site support. I recall a similar instance when we requested on-site support for one of our locations in Hyderabad, and Amazon agreed to send their engineers to set up the solution in our office environment. That said, in terms of potential improvements, it would be beneficial to have the option for capacity expansion. When customers opt for a solution like Outpost, they receive a fixed set of capacities in terms of storage, network, and hardware. As design engineers, it's crucial to consider use cases and plan for scalability and sustainability. Having the flexibility to extend these capacities could be valuable. Some engineers may not be aware of future needs, and if there's an opportunity to expand capacity without the need for additional functionality, it would be a helpful feature. This way, we can cater to various needs and ensure the solution remains adaptable in the long run.

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MahendraPanchotiya

Infrastructure Manager at ER Tech Pros

Offers a unified platform, reduces downtime, and simple updates

Nutanix offers a unified platform for managing databases, virtual machines, and applications. This simplifies management by consolidating everything into a single interface. While Nutanix may have a higher upfront cost compared to other hypervisors, it can significantly reduce the resources needed for infrastructure management. With our previous hypervisor, we needed nearly ten IT personnel. Nutanix has allowed us to streamline our team to just three members. We use a combination of database technologies, including SQL databases and web servers such as IIS, BHP, and NGINX. Nutanix features helped our organization reduce downtime. I don't recall the last time we had downtime related to Nutanix because it is such a stable product. Nutanix, a reliable product, helps us streamline our processes, which in turn improves company revenue. We began to see the benefits after two years, with a 40 percent reduction in operational costs. We migrated 200 servers from AWS to Nutanix. Nutanix may not consolidate applications, but it helps us run them more efficiently on its platform. Updating is simple with one click. I would rate the updating processes 10 out of 10. Adding compute and storage on demand is not difficult. However, we need to factor in the existing and new firmware and software requirements.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable aspect is that it comes in a rack form factor which makes it incredibly easy to use and deploy various AWS services."

"Outposts allows you to isolate your private environment from the public cloud provider while enabling almost all the features that are available on public cloud services. That is the beauty of this service. It's an infrastructure that you can put in your data center and seamlessly connect to the public cloud."

"With AWS, we've had seamless integration and support for many of our applications."

"AWS can manage services when deployed on customer sites due to Outposts' capability of being installed in on-premises environments."

"If you compare with the full bundle of these services, you can see the difference. This is enough for these locations in private data centers. Because the main reasons why the customers want to have it on their side are for the low latency and the security of their critical data."

"AWS Outposts brings native AWS services, infrastructure, and API to our on-premises data center or co-location facilities."

"I think the keys to success for the solution is the easy-to-use user interface and the fact that the development team really likes the platform."

"The most valuable aspect is its ability to provide interfaces for events."

"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."

"One of the main features of the solution is that it works on many hypervisors. It is a big advantage. Additionally, the solution is compatible with VMware and Hyper-V, and the management interface, which is called Prism, is very intuitive and user-friendly."

"This is a very flexible solution that you are able to run however you want."

"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."

"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."

"In the world of IT operations, there is a lot of noise. Traditionally, systems would generate a great deal of alerts, events, and notifications, often leading to the operator either a) not seeing critical alerts since they are lost in the noise or b) disregarding the alerts/events."

"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."

"The most valuable feature is the solution's ease of upgrading."

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Cons

"The product is heavy to ship and can be difficult to handle logistically."

"Outposts supports elastic coordinator services, but not elastic container services, which is the native service for containers in AWS. That is something missing in this product."

"The platform needs to spend more time investing in strengthening its governance and information tools and consider the real needs of its customers."

"It would be great if it could support Glue services."

"The pricing model needs improvement because right now it's very expensive. All of these solutions are very expensive and it prevents other customers or owners of data centers from buying it."

"Also, it would be beneficial if AWS allowed for more granular and customizable pricing options."

"It would be beneficial to have the option for capacity expansion."

"Depending on the installation process, we have found some bugs and issues with the solution when the same platform is not used."

"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."

"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."

"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."

"The solution has more features than required"

"This solution would be improved with built-in integration with Rubrik."

"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."

"The reporting section of the dashboard could be improved to include more detailed reporting about the servers."

"The reporting feature isn't very good."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"AWS Outposts is a cheap solution."

"Customers should consider the high cost, which can range from $10,000 to hundreds of thousands depending on the components."

"While the longer-term pricing is suitable for enterprise contracts, it can be on the higher side, especially when organizations don't utilize all the services included in the bundles."

"The pricing of Outposts needs to be evaluated from the standpoint of what's cost-effective at your company: How are you going to use it? How much money will it save for your products or applications? Is it worth it? I would say it's probably too expensive for small or medium-sized companies. However, big companies might find it to be highly cost-effective depending on their respective cloud strategies."

"If they could further reduce the cost, that would be great. I would like to see the cost be less than the equivalent three-tier architecture."

"I would rate the price seven out of ten with ten being the most expensive."

"While cost may seem higher than your traditional 3-tier architecture, you need to look at the bigger picture. You're not just buying hardware here. You're buying a complete environment."

"Pricing varies greatly between license and editions."

"The price is good but I think there is still room for improvement on the price."

"Pricing for Nutanix Acropolis AOS is higher. This is one of the reasons why we were looking into other options."

"Many of my customers have issues with Acropolis' licensing model because they are charging the customers based on two things— the CPUs and the capacity in the solid stack disk — and that's a problem. Nutanix's competitors are not licensing that layer, so this is something that they should change. They should abandon this licensing model because it's too complex. Technical support is bundled with the subscription."

"Extra features should not be so expensive. We would love to be able to use or even just try some of the extra features without having to buy them. Buying those features is just as expensive as buying vSphere licenses, so the cost savings is nullified."

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Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

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Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS Outposts?

With AWS, we've had seamless integration and support for many of our applications.

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What needs improvement with AWS Outposts?

Outposts is not a simple solution to implement as it needs to be shipped from the US and involves high delivery costs and running costs. The product is heavy to ship and can be difficult to handle ...

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What advice do you have for others considering AWS Outposts?

I rate AWS Outposts a nine out of ten, indicating room for some improvement.

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What is the biggest difference between Nutanix Acropolis and VMware vSphere?

We found the reduced power consumption with Nutanix Acropolis AOS a very attractive feature. We also like the interface that allows you to talk directly to your VM from the present software. We fou...

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How do I choose between Cisco Hyperflex HX Series and Nutanix Acropolis AOS?

Cisco HyperFlex HS series vs Nutanix Acropolis AOS Cisco HyperFlex gives extended hyper-convergence functions from core to edge and multi-cloud environments. It helps IT and OT teams deploy hyper...

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Which would you choose - Nutanix Acropolis AOS or VMware vSAN?

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Comparisons

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Compared 57% of the time

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Compared 18% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Overview

AWS Outposts bring native AWS services, infrastructure, and operating models to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility. You can use the same APIs, the same tools, the same hardware, and the same functionality across on-premises and the cloud to deliver a truly consistent hybrid experience. Outposts can be used to support workloads that need to remain on-premises due to low latency or local data processing needs.

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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is a top-ranking HCI software, cloud management tool, and Software Defined Storage (SDS) tool that is marketed as the foundation for users' hybrid clouds. It offers a powerful and secure hyperconverged infrastructure to deliver all data and applications at any scale and on any cloud. The solution offers a complete software stack that allows users to unify their hybrid cloud infrastructure.

NCI’s services include computer, storage and network, hypervisors and containers, and deployment in public or in private clouds. The product also comes with built-in resilience, disaster recovery capabilities, self-healing, and high-security capacities. It provides further deployment flexibility through several software and hardware options and platforms. NCI includes a full set of enterprise capabilities. It can also be deployed on a wide range of servers from popular manufacturers.

The capabilities of the product are categorized into three main groups:

AOS storage
Flexible and open compute
Automated and secure networking

Outside of these categories, NCI also offers other capabilities:

Integrated disaster recovery
Full-stack lifecycle management
VMware with Nutanix
Intelligent operations

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) Features

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) offers its customers various features and tools in each of the previously mentioned categories. The available features for users currently include:

High-performance: This set of features utilizes hardware advances such as NVMe and RDMA to accelerate users' most demanding applications with consistent performance. The tools in this feature category work alongside data locality to ensure successful results.
Foolproof resiliency: These Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure features protect data and keep it available by facilitating advanced distributed consistency algorithms. Users can utilize these features to protect their data from issues like bit rot, hardware failures, and even entire site failure.
Flexibility: This set of features allows storage to be sized for the needs of each organization and expanded promptly and easily so that the organization and its data can grow. The features offer flexibility to users in terms of applying storage policies logically on a pre-workload basis, instead of being tied to hardware.
Hypervisor choice: Users can choose from the leading hypervisors - Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware ESXi. They can also leverage the built-in hypervisor AHV that Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) provides.
Integrated virtualization: These features offer simplified automation and AHV streamlined operations. The services in this category are optimized for high performance and reliability.
Kubernetes: Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) offers features to build and deploy cloud-native applications on intelligent distributed infrastructure. Apps can be integrated with cloud-compatible storage and both building and deployment can be achieved within the same platform.
Microsegmentation: Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) offers features to prevent malware spread and reduce attack surfaces by leveraging machine learning (ML).
Virtual networking: This set of features allows users to easily implement multi-tenancy in their environment or stretch networks across clouds.
Centralized network management: Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) provides organizations with a way to manage networking configurations centrally. Users can utilize it across their human-computer interaction (HCI) environment with simple virtual switch management.

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) Benefits

The product offers various benefits to users who utilize its capacities. Some of these include:

NCI reduces technology sprawl and frees up technical resources to allow organizations to focus on other activities, potentially reducing costs for the business.
The product allows customers to deploy, scale, and bridge to the public cloud to be able to react in evolving business environments.
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure improves data availability while simultaneously protecting it against several kinds of failures and attacks.
The solution offers high-performance, resilient distributed storage for all workloads.
Working alongside Nutanix Cloud Platform, NCI offers simple management of data from one console.
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure works by the zero trust philosophy, protecting users' apps and data through specially designed security protocols.

Reviews from Real Users

According to Gerhard J., an IT manager at Q4 Fuel, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) provides serious reliability and stability across the entire system makes for ROI.

A solutions architect at a computer software company describes NCI as a stable, straightforward to set up, and scalable solution.

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