Nutanix Government Cloud Clusters (GC2) on AWS GovCloud

Nutanix Government Cloud Clusters on AWS GovCloud

Leverage hybrid cloud while maintaining secure isolation from public internet by utilizing AWS GovCloud, and managing consistently across AWS and your on-premises locations.


Making Secure Hybrid Cloud Easy

Nutanix Government Cloud Clusters (GC2) enables you to run your applications in AWS GovCloud using the same Nutanix platform that you run on-premises in your data center and edge environments.

Accelerate Migration and Modernization

Quickly migrate apps and data to AWS GovCloud with managed risk and modernize with Nutanix services and native cloud services.

Simplify Cloud Operations 

GC2 provides a simple IT model with common UIs, policies, networking, and security constructs across AWS GovCloud and on-premises locations.

Optimize Cloud Efficiency

Bare-metal nodes increase density with app rightsizing flexibility for AWS GovCloud cost control.

Key Features

Native AWS Networking

Run GC2 in your existing AWS GovCloud accounts and VPCs, eliminating the need to manage complex and costly networking integration while also providing performance benefits.

Regional Availability

GC2 can be deployed in the US regions us-east and us-west in AWS GovCloud.

Flexible Bare-Metal Configurations

GC2 on AWS GovCloud can be deployed on a choice of node types, including compute or storage heavy, and NVMe high performance storage nodes.

Nutanix UI for Clusters AWS Govcloud

Use Cases

Cloud Migration

Cloud Migration

Accelerate your cloud journey by quickly and seamlessly moving apps and data to AWS GovCloud. GC2 makes it easy without the cost and complexity of refactoring or rearchitecting.

  • Applications:Citrix, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, Splunk, VMware
  • Government:Federal, State & Local
  • Industries:Government
  • Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI):Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
  • Products:Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)
  • Use Cases:Databases & DBaaS, Hybrid Multicloud

6 January 2025

Cloud Disaster Recovery

Cloud Disaster Recovery

Avoid the cost and complexity of maintaining on-premises disaster recovery sites with GC2 for on-demand elasticity to the AWS GovCloud.

  • Applications:Citrix, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, Splunk, VMware
  • Government:Federal, State & Local
  • Industries:Government
  • Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI):Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
  • Products:Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)
  • Use Cases:Databases & DBaaS, Hybrid Multicloud

6 January 2025

Datacenter Extension

Datacenter Extension

Expand capacity quickly with GC2 to support business or mission surges, contractor onboarding, dev/test workloads, and VDI—then scale back when demand subsides.

  • Applications:Citrix, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, Splunk, VMware
  • Government:Federal, State & Local
  • Industries:Government
  • Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI):Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
  • Products:Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)
  • Use Cases:Databases & DBaaS, Hybrid Multicloud

6 January 2025

Application Modernization

Application Modernization

Modernize your apps across the cloud, datacenter and at the edge with GC2 and integrate with native cloud services.

  • Applications:Citrix, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, Splunk, VMware
  • Government:Federal, State & Local
  • Industries:Government
  • Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI):Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
  • Products:Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)
  • Use Cases:Databases & DBaaS, Hybrid Multicloud

6 January 2025


Frequently Asked Questions

GC2 is the Nutanix Cloud Platform solution running in the customer’s AWS GovCloud account. This is independent from the Nutanix NC2 offering.  GC2 does not require a hosted management component in the way that the Nutanix NC2 offering does.

GC2 utilizes AWS Bare Metal instances to run the Nutanix software, allowing you to deploy and manage Nutanix clusters directly within AWS GovCloud while leveraging existing AWS networking and services.

Yes, you can use the available products and services in AWS GovCloud and integrate them with workloads running on GC2.

Yes, you can use your existing Nutanix licenses on GC2 on AWS GovCloud.

Customers who otherwise have the ability to use an AWS US GovCloud environment will have the GC2 option available for use with their Nutanix licenses. It is suitable for any customer who meets this requirement.