Amazon S3 vs Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Nutanix are both solutions in the Public Cloud Storage Services category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7, while Nutanix is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 11.6% mindshare in PCSS, compared to Nutanix’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

Amazon S3

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98% willing to recommend

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)

Read 72 Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) reviews

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98% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 and Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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

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Amazon S3 vs. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon S3

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

6th

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

All-Flash Storage (6th), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (5th), File and Object Storage (4th), NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2024, in the Public Cloud Storage Services category, the mindshare of Amazon S3 is 11.6%, down from 15.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is 1.1%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Souvik Banerjee

Software Development Engineer at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

Feb 2, 2023

Helpful for storing data, easy deployment, and useful encryption

Most people who need to store files usually turn to Amazon S3. The use case for this is not only for me but for anyone building technology who needs to store files Amazon S3 helps to store data, such as Excel, audio, and video. An important feature of the Amazon S3's system is that it offers…

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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 solution is good and includes all the features we expect."

"This solution is good at storing historical data and we were using it for other purposes."

"Set up a performance and stress-based test suite to measure the endurance of a web application on Amazon AWS cloud system using S3 as the back-end storage infrastructure."

"The main aspect we like is that it's been easy to use."

"Amazon S3 is reliable."

"Great for storing all types of data."

"The users have nothing to worry about as the solution is well established."

"The product's deployment phase is easy."

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"My opinion is that this solution has very good stability."

"The aspect of the product that I like the most is its simplicity."

"Nutanix's analytics provide better insights into all of our files."

"The solution is stable and extremely easy to calibrate."

"What I like most about Nutanix Files Storage is the way it makes copies of the data. The solution also has high availability, which is excellent. Another valuable feature of Nutanix Files Storage is self-service, so users won't have to depend on the IT team much."

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

"Nutanix Volumes is a perfectly stable product."

"The best Nutanix Unified Storage features are its recovery and data speeds. It has resolved the issue of accessing information quickly."

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Cons

"Maybe it could be a bit cheaper."

"They should improve in the area of metadata curation."

"Everything around visibility, dashboards, and all of the statistics through which the tool provides information 24 hours a day means that it is not done on a real-time basis."

"I would also like S3 to have the ability to do dynamic websites without the need to do reconfigurations outside of S3. You should be able to switch on dynamic websites in S3, and then it works. I shouldn't need to go elsewhere within Amazon Web Services to get a dynamic website to work."

"The free web and DB hosting could be improved. It could be faster when you download huge files from the S3 bucket to your local system. If the S3 bucket availability and performance could be improved, we would consider hosting our database over there."

"I would like there to be more support without needing to use Transfer Family."

"A feature that should be included is to find and provide a HIPPA compliant solution for the Presigned URL."

"The major challenge is the inability to create more than ten policies."

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"The interface could be improved."

"We have some problems with Nutanix Unified Storage's support because they asked us to change our hardware."

"We have issues with software updates occasionally."

"It could be more user-friendly."

"Historically, it has been a hyper-converged infrastructure, so when you are looking to grow the solution, you need to scale the compute and storage. Having the ability to scale the storage independently would be a good improvement."

"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."

"Its interface is very simplistic. It is a good thing for people because of the ease of use, but at times, I find it too simplistic. It is hard to find advanced options. They should eventually expand it and provide additional drop-down lists or menus with advanced feature sets."

"The product does not offer one console."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost depends on the data we access."

"The tool is not too expensive considering the various pros."

"The price of the Amazon S3 is reasonable. There are not any licensing costs, they have a pay-as-you-use model."

"I know it is very inexpensive compared to other solutions."

"The tool's price is a little bit high, but it is reasonable."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly. I rate it a six to seven out of ten."

"The cost varies based on the type of subscription you chose."

"There is a license to use Amazon S3."

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"Nutanix Unified Storage pricing is reasonable."

"The pricing is a bit too high."

"I find Nutanix Files Storage competitively priced, even its feature set. Its price is seven out of ten."

"Compared to other solutions, NUS is cost-effective and efficient. It also has good performance."

"The product has an annual licensing fee."

"Nutanix Unified Storage was cheaper than other solutions we evaluated."

"In my opinion, the product is fairly priced."

"The product is pricey."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

73%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

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

What do you like most about Amazon S3?

We can easily connect to the AWS resources.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon S3?

The licensing model is complex. If you need your backup data available at all times, but don't access it frequently, there are better options. You could go with S3, but other vendors offer the same...

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What needs improvement with Amazon S3?

There's a lot of complexity, but that's unavoidable because it needs to be versatile. You have to be able to get the data in many different ways. For example, if you need to give just one file to s...

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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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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 19% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Also Known As

S3, Simple Storage Service

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

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Overview

Amazon Simple Storage Service is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon S3 has a simple web services interface that you can use to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.

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

Netflix, Airbnb, Thomson Reuters, Zillow, Alert Logic

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

Buyer's Guide

Amazon S3 vs. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)

September 2024

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