Nutanix Cloud Clusters for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OVHcloud

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) delivers enterprise-grade cloud clusters built on the Nutanix Cloud Platform. It allows organizations to run fully integrated environments on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OVHcloud using the same software, operations, and security controls utilized on-premises.

By running directly on public cloud bare-metal infrastructure, NC2 enables organizations to:

• Eliminate Operational Silos: Maintain a consistent, high-performance experience across hybrid and multicloud environments.
• Mobilize Applications: Move apps and data without refactoring code or redesigning infrastructure.
• Mitigate Supply Chain Risks: Rapidly provision cloud capacity to help avoid hardware procurement delays.
• Accelerate Key Use Cases: Streamline cloud migration, disaster recovery, datacenter extension, and elastic scaling

NC2 is currently Generally Available on AWS and Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and OVHcloud.

With NC2, cloud clusters are created and scaled on demand, delivering consistent performance, built-in resilience, and seamless workload mobility—without requiring application changes or separate toolsets. This makes NC2 ideal for hybrid cloud, multicloud, and cloud adoption initiatives where simplicity, control, and efficiency matter.

NC2 is different because it’s the same. NC2 uses the same data and management planes on-premises and in multiple clouds. With one management console for all locations, the operational complexity of migrating or extending applications and is dramatically reduced. In addition, customers gain immediate capacity in the cloud, helping circumvent lengthy hardware delays while preserving both operational continuity and modernization momentum.

Additional differentiated benefits include:

• Licenses are portable across clouds, so no new licenses are required if migrating VMs, application, or data. 
• NC2 can be deployed in just a few hours, greatly accelerating migration or data center extension use cases.
• NC2 is not a managed service. Customers control when, where, and how to deploy or repatriate.

NC2 is designed to be stand-alone without needing any other further investments from Nutanix. If you want to connect your on-premises and your cloud environments, it is fully supported and easy to do.

Customers pay Nutanix for Nutanix software and pay Amazon or Microsoft for cloud resources consumed.

Nutanix software on Clusters can be consumed in the following ways:

• BYO Licenses - Bring your own term-based licenses that you currently own or are purchasing. This allows customers to port their on-premises licenses to NC2. Note, AOS License must be Pro or Ultimate; AOS Starter cannot be used with NC2
• PAYG - Pay-as-you-Go per hour on cores/hr and SSD/hr.
• Cloud Commit - Term based minimum commit with overages.

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Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) enables organizations to meet environmental, social, and governance (ESG) targets by minimizing physical infrastructure footprints and reducing datacenter energy consumption. A hybrid multicloud deployment balances intensive data growth with decarbonization goals. This architecture prevents resource over-provisioning, scales efficiently to handle demanding AI workloads, and reduces hardware waste.

Deploying the Nutanix platform can help deliver measurable sustainability outcomes including:

• Decrease rack space requirements across key datacenters by up to 80%.
• Shrink power and energy consumption by 60 to 80%.
• Cut carbon emissions by 200 metric tons of carbon equivalents annually.
• Eliminate waste by using public cloud capacity to prevent on-premises over-provisioning.

Click here to learn more about how hybrid cloud can increase ROI via sustability choices.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) provides an AI-ready hybrid multicloud platform that accelerates modernization by bridging on-premises environments with public cloud capabilities. This enables organizations to securely connect enterprise applications directly to cloud-native AI services—such as Google Cloud Vertex AI, Gemini, and AWS AI tools—without refactoring legacy workloads.

Deploying AI workloads on the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) delivers strategic advantages:

• Access cloud-native AI services securely by using private network endpoints to prevent sensitive data from traversing the public internet.
• Accelerate AI adoption by positioning core enterprise data adjacent to advanced public cloud AI and analytics tools.
• Ensure data sovereignty by keeping information within controlled virtual private clouds (VPCs) during AI processing and model execution.
• Modernize application architectures by integrating Nutanix Agentic AI, Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI), Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP), and Nutanix Database Service (NDB).
• Simplify infrastructure management through a single, consistent operating model across on-premises and public cloud environments.

NC2 offers you an easy way to get started using the Test Drive, which provides a 30-minute self-guided tour. All Nutanix and public cloud infrastructure costs are covered by Nutanix during the test drive time period (availability up to 8 hrs). 

If you are ready to go, current customers can use their existing account at https://my.nutanix.com/, or a new account can be created. A My Nutanix account allows you to access, manage, and use NC2. From there, you can start a 30-day free trial for NC2, subscribe to one of the payment plan options, or use your existing Nutanix licenses for NC2. You simply need to add your cloud account of choice and start deploying Nutanix Cloud Clusters. Our support portal has additional technical information such as available node types and region availability. We encourage you to reach out to your local sales team for further assistance.