Unify all your Private and Public Clouds
NC2 delivers the industry’s first cloud platform with the flexibility, simplicity, and cost efficiency needed to manage applications and infrastructure in private and multiple public clouds, operated as a single cloud.
Take a Test Drive Download Solution BriefNC2 gives you a wide range of pricing & licensing choices, ranging from on-demand Pay-as-you-Go (PAYG) to Bring Your Own License (BYOL) with the portability of existing licenses.
Licensing Models for Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS (NC2A) deployments are below with all prices listed in USD.
Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure (NC2Z) is currently in preview. There is no cost to the customer for the Nutanix software used on Azure during the preview phase. Customer is responsible for cost incurred on any Azure services.
Pay-as-you-Go (PayG)
On-demand consumption based pricing with no commitment. Monthly billing based on the vCPU and storage capacity consumed.
- No upfront commitment
- Pay for what you use, metered hourly
- Billed monthly based on consumption
- Great for short duration or unplanned usage
Cloud Commit (CC)
Commit to paying a minimum amount upfront and get discounted consumption for one year, including any consumption above the upfront commitment amount. Two discount levels available based on the upfront commitment amount: $35,000 to $100,000 (CC-35) and $100,000+ (CC-100).
- Upfront annual payment commitment with discounted billing
- Pay for what you use, metered hourly
- Overages billed monthly at a discounted rate
- Great for demand with known variability
Bring your own License (BYOL)
License portability benefits by transferring capacity from your on-premises term based capacity based licenses (CBL) to AWS
- Ideal for flexible capacity across on-premises and AWS environments
- Term based licensing (1 to 5 yrs) with capacity based pricing
Select your bare metal instance:
i3.metal comes with 36 cores, 512GB memory, 13.82TiB NVMe SSD storage per bare metal instance. Pricing is in USD.
| Pricing Model | AOS Pro/node | AOS Ultimate/node | Effective Discount (approx) | |
| Per Hour | PayG | $1.75 | $2.10 | |
| CC-35 | $1.31 | $1.58 | 25% off PayG | |
| CC-100 | $1.05 | $1.26 | 40% off PayG | |
| Yearly | PayG | $15,330.00 | $18,396.00 | |
| CC-35 | $11,497.50 | $13,797.00 | 25% off PayG | |
| CC-100 | $9,198.00 | $11,037.60 | 40% off PayG |
i3en.metal comes with 48 cores, 768GB memory, 54.57TiB NVMe SSD storage per bare metal instance. Pricing is in USD.
| Pricing Model | AOS Pro/node | AOS Ultimate/node | Effective Discount (approx) | |
| Per Hour | PayG | $2.80 | $3.36 | |
| CC-35 | $2.10 | $2.52 | 25% off PayG | |
| CC-100 | $1.68 | $2.02 | 40% off PayG | |
| Yearly | PayG | $24,528.00 | $29,433.60 | |
| CC-35 | $18,396.00 | $22,075.20 | 25% off PayG | |
| CC-100 | $14,716.80 | $17,660.16 | 40% off PayG |
m5d.metal comes with 48 cores, 384GB memory, 3.27TiB NVMe SSD storage per bare metal instance. Pricing is in USD.
| Pricing Model | AOS Pro/node | AOS Ultimate/node | Effective Discount (approx) | |
| Per Hour | PayG | $2.14 | $2.56 | |
| CC-35 | $1.60 | $1.92 | 25% off PayG | |
| CC-100 | $1.28 | $1.54 | 40% off PayG | |
| Yearly | PayG | $18,712.33 | $22,454.80 | |
| CC-35 | $14,034.25 | $16,841.10 | 25% off PayG | |
| CC-100 | $11,227.40 | $13,472.88 | 40% off PayG |
z1d.metal comes with 24 cores, 384GB memory, 1.64TiB NVMe SSD storage per bare metal instance. Pricing is in USD.
| Pricing Model | AOS Pro/node | AOS Ultimate/node | Effective Discount (approx) | |
| Per Hour | PayG | $1.07 | $1.28 | |
| CC-35 | $0.80 | $0.96 | 25% off PayG | |
| CC-100 | $0.64 | $0.77 | 40% off PayG | |
| Yearly | PayG | $9,361.60 | $11,233.92 | |
| CC-35 | $7,021.20 | $8,425.44 | 25% off PayG | |
| CC-100 | $5,616.96 | $6,740.35 | 40% off PayG |
The pricing above is for the Nutanix software only. The cost for AWS infrastructure is the responsibility of the user.
“NC2 allows us to easily create a hybrid cloud environment spanning our Nutanix datacenter and AWS, so that we can very rapidly burst capacity in AWS when needed to quickly restore our workloads from a backup.”
- Craig Wiley, Sr Infrastructure Systems Architect, Penn National Insurance
“We are excited about what the partnership between Nutanix and Microsoft will bring, with Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure (NC2Z) and beyond. I envision this hybrid cloud solution will accelerate our teams' ability to try new innovative ideas and bring them to our customers, by increasing agility, scalability and reliability while reducing risk.”
- Ken Shaffer, AVP Technology, CarMax
“NC2 provides a seamless way to burst capacity into public clouds to increase our VDI workloads when needed to support Census activities, while knowing all our apps will just work – without needing to repackage or rearchitect them.”
- Julian Doak, CISO, Australian Bureau of Statistics
Take a Self-Guided Tour
Don’t have bare metal instances you can use in your cloud account? Take a Test Drive instead. Enjoy a 30 minute self-guided tour of Nutanix hybrid Multicloud platform. No cloud account needed. Learn how you can use NC2 to connect your private and public clouds and migrate VMs across clouds with no retooling.
Start Using Now
Create your MyNutanix account and start a free trial of NC2. Bring your cloud accounts with access to bare metal instances and create your hybrid multicloud in less than one hour.
*The free trial is of the Nutanix software. Users are responsible for costs of public cloud bare metal instances
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