Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) vs Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Nutanix are both solutions in the File and Object Storage category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.6, while Nutanix is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.0. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon EFS (Elastic File Sy...

Ranking in File and Object Storage

8th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Storage (5th)

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)

Ranking in File and Object Storage

4th

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

All-Flash Storage (6th), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (5th), Public Cloud Storage Services (6th), NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays (4th)

Featured Reviews

Mahender Nirwan

Software developer at TAIGLE LLC

Aug 12, 2024

Reliable product with a simple integration process

Our primary use case for the product involves mounting it with our EC2 instances for scalable storage needs. We utilize it in an environment that requires automated scaling and cost-effective storage management The solution has significantly improved our organization by reducing costs,…

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Mohammed Abdulaleem.

IT Admin at a sports company with 501-1,000 employees

Dec 12, 2023

Cut our TCO in half while improving the overall performance of our infrastructure operations

I like Nutanix Prism Central. The primary benefit is that we can manage everything from the same page. It also gives you the data in graph form on the main page, so you can keep a close eye on what is happening. You can watch for high utilization and see the disks and reports in the central console. It's a resilient and highly stable application The modernized infrastructure and data services feature is the most beneficial to me as an administrator. We derive business value in terms of storage because we have the option of using Windows Firewall. Nutanix Unified Storage allows us to consolidate our data platform within the Nutanix cluster itself without using external storage. You can work with all types of unstructured data seamlessly with Unified Storage. There should be no problem with that. There are no issues with audio, video, uploads, downloads, etc. It's a flexible solution. This is what I understood as I was reviewing the documentation today. Nutanix is trying to simplify storage and has many options for scalability.

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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 initial setup was straightforward."

"We can run code and deploy it whenever we want."

"The first valuable thing is it is scalable."

"The most beneficial feature of the product for data storage stems from the fact that it serves as a shared file storage."

"The product's initial setup phase is easy, as per the configurations."

"The solution is scalable."

"We are not that big of a cloud user. We just use it for the storage of our bytes. The most valuable aspect is the storage."

"Its elasticity and flexible pricing are the most valuable. For Amazon EFS, you are charged based on the storage. It is also very fast and stable with a very simple and intuitive interface."

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"The solution is simple and robust."

"The reliability and availability are the most valuable features. Reliability is important because it can run my workloads. I need to be able to take advantage of the VMs that are executing on the storage. It has to be reliable. It's also important to have the storage available for scaling VMs on demand."

"My company has benefitted from Nutanix Unified Storage because we have everything in a centralized place. With Prism Central, we can go to the console files and do what we have to do."

"The inclusion of it in the Nutanix Objects Storage platform simplifies my process as I am no longer required to acquire a separate platform. Instead, I can simply purchase additional licenses as needed. All management can be performed from a single unified interface, making it a convenient and streamlined experience."

"The most valuable feature is that it is highly available, solving the pain-point of delaying updates to Windows-based file servers during production hours. And then the second one would be ransomware protection and analytics. It gives you great visibility and protection on your file shares that are otherwise the most common sources of vulnerabilities."

"We have virtually zero downtime with Nutanix. It updates itself, and we can easily move machines from one cluster to another."

"The product's benefits stem from the ease of use and management it offers to its users."

"Some of the features that we use include replication and snapshot capabilities, especially from remote locations to our data centers. The main benefit our company sees from using Nutanix Unified Storage is simplification. In the past, we used three-tier solutions with a lot of complexity and operational overhead. Now, we want to focus on the layers above. I want to have storage available, but I don't want to have to think about it. I want it to work without any issues."

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Cons

"The platform's connectivity could be improved to be more comparable to S3 buckets, which offer better API availability."

"Its deployment process could be faster while installing the Python package directly into the environment."

"The product's stability has some shortcomings where improvements are required."

"The lack of transparency in the costs attached to the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"When we faced some issues, the support team took a lot of time to resolve them."

"The deployment is definitely not an easy process."

"It should be simplified. There are people who don't have cloud experience. It should be storage that we are able to just connect to."

"It could be better in connecting with Windows Server instances."

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"The implementation is a little bit complex and should be made easier."

"If they can add an integrated DLP feature, it would be great."

"There is no tagging concept in Nutanix Unified Storage where you can tag the servers."

"The solution's monitoring and security features could be improved."

"Customer service is more difficult to call and they do not responding as much as, for example, DataCore. It's not the same level of satisfaction compared to DataCore. Responses could be faster."

"The GUI is easy to use, but it's complex to do tasks from the command line. That is one way they could simplify things for the engineers. People tend to use a graphical interface more than the command line interface. If anything goes wrong, we need to do troubleshooting from the CLI. It would be nice if there were more ways to fix issues within the GUI."

"Lowering the price would improve this product."

"Improving quota policies would be advantageous, particularly by offering the option to implement blocking instead of just issuing warnings."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product charges are based on the amount of data stored."

"It has flexible pricing. You are charged based on your storage."

"Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) offers a pay-as-you-go model, so whenever you use its services, you need to pay."

"I would rate the pricing 7 out of 10."

"The product's price depends on the services and the size and capacity at which it is used in a business environment."

"The solution's price is mid-ranged."

"Nutanix Unified Storage pricing is reasonable."

"It is not too high for what we are using."

"For clients running Nutanix, the licensing cost for Files is a small add-on cost."

"It's not the cheapest solution. It's in line with other solutions, but it offers features that the competitors don't have at any price point, especially with regard to analytics and ransomware prevention. No one else has any sort of object-based storage available. Nutanix Unified Storage is a lot more feature-rich. This is a situation where you get what you pay for."

"Nutanix's pricing is definitely much better when compared to other storage providers. That was one of the main reasons we switched to this platform."

"The product is neither cheap nor expensive, making it a solution offering a price range that is in the middle."

"I'm happy with the cost and licensing because I don't have big volumes."

"The licensing model the tool has is cheaper than an HCI storage solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Educational Organization

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

30%

Computer Software Company

30%

Manufacturing Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Which file storage system is better - Amazon EFS (elastic file storage) or Azure File Storage?

Amazon EFS is easy to set up: you can use the AWS management console, API, or command-line. Amazon EFS can grow to petabytes and deliver consistent low latencies and high levels of throughput. This...

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What do you like most about Amazon EFS (Elastic File System)?

The product's initial setup phase is easy, as per the configurations.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EFS (Elastic File System)?

The product charges are based on the amount of data stored, with different hot and cold storage costs. Cold storage is inexpensive but slower to access.

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What do you like most about Nutanix Unified Storage?

Nutanix has excellent product documentation available on their portals, written in simple, easy-to-understand language.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Unified Storage?

Nutanix Unified Storage isn't expensive.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Unified Storage?

The dashboard could be more customizable

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Overview

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Amazon EFS is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. With Amazon EFS, storage capacity is elastic, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need, when they need it.

When mounted to Amazon EC2 instances, an Amazon EFS file system provides a standard file system interface and file system access semantics, allowing you to seamlessly integrate Amazon EFS with your existing applications and tools. Multiple Amazon EC2 instances can access an Amazon EFS file system at the same time, allowing Amazon EFS to provide a common data source for workloads and applications running on more than one Amazon EC2 instance.

It’s designed for high availability and durability, and provides performance for a broad spectrum of workloads and applications, including Big Data and analytics, media processing workflows, content management, web serving, and home directories.

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is a software-defined storage solution that consolidates seamless access and management of siloed block, file, and object storage into a single platform. Leveraging the Nutanix Cloud Platform, NUS is built for scale, performance, and integrated data security requirements of modern applications deployed on core, cloud, or edge.

Sample Customers

Arcesium, Atlassian, Seeking Alpha, Zend

JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, Volkswagen SAIC, Brighton and Hove City Council, Foresters Financial, Janus International Group, Cloud Comrade, Serco

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Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) vs. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)

September 2024

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