AWS re:Invent 2025 - Fast-Track Modernization and Transformation with Nutanix and AWS (HMC103)

Accelerating Modernization and Transformation with Nutanix and AWS

Hybrid Cloud Done Right with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

• Nutanix offers a seamless way to extend on-premises Nutanix environments into the AWS cloud through NC2.
• NC2 allows customers to run the same Nutanix software and licenses in AWS, providing a consistent hybrid cloud experience.
• Customers can easily migrate workloads between on-premises and the cloud without the need for complex reconfigurations.
• NC2 provides flexibility to run a variety of instance types in AWS, including options for GPU, storage-dense, compute-intensive, and memory-intensive workloads.

Accelerating AI and Machine Learning with Intel AMX

• Nutanix AI (NAI) enables customers to easily get started with AI and machine learning in the cloud in a cost-effective manner.
• NAI allows customers to test and train AI models in the cloud, then deploy them on-premises or at the edge as needed, while ensuring data sovereignty.
• This helps customers avoid the high costs of dedicated on-premises AI hardware and provides flexibility to scale AI workloads as needed.

Ensuring Data Sovereignty with Nutanix Sovereign

• Nutanix Sovereign is a new offering that allows customers to run Nutanix environments within their own AWS VPC and availability zones, ensuring data never leaves the customer's controlled environment.
• This is particularly valuable for customers in regulated industries, such as public sector, finance, and healthcare, who have strict data sovereignty requirements.
• Nutanix Sovereign provides an additional layer of control and security over customer data, giving them confidence that it will remain within their defined boundaries.

Optimizing Costs with Hibernation and Pilot Light

• Nutanix provides a hibernation feature that allows customers to hibernate entire Nutanix clusters in AWS, storing them in S3 at low cost.
• This enables customers to quickly spin up the hibernated cluster when needed, reducing ongoing compute costs while maintaining disaster recovery (DR) capabilities.
• Nutanix also offers a "pilot light" DR solution that maintains a small, always-on cluster in AWS to protect mission-critical tier 0 workloads with minimal downtime.

Seamless Integration and Workload Migration

• Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) provides a single pane of glass to manage both on-premises Nutanix environments and Nutanix resources in AWS.
• This allows customers to easily apply the same policies, automation, and blueprints across their hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Nutanix makes it easy to migrate workloads from on-premises to AWS, with customers able to stretch their existing VLANs and IP addresses into the cloud, reducing the complexity of the migration process.
• Customers have reported being able to migrate workloads to AWS in as little as 52 minutes using Nutanix's tools and automation.

Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKP) for Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes

• NKP provides a Kubernetes platform that can be consistently deployed and managed across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments.
• This helps customers address the challenges of running Kubernetes at scale, including managing persistent data, distributing workloads, and ensuring security and compliance.
• NKP integrates with the broader Nutanix portfolio, allowing customers to leverage the same tools and policies for their virtual machines, containers, and AI/ML workloads.

Business Impact and Customer Examples

• Customers have been able to rapidly migrate workloads to AWS using Nutanix, with one example of a 52-minute migration time.
• Nutanix's hybrid cloud solutions have helped customers optimize costs, improve disaster recovery capabilities, and ensure data sovereignty.
• Customers running mission-critical databases have leveraged Nutanix Database Service (NDB) to streamline database operations and management.
• Nutanix's integrated approach to virtual machines, containers, and AI/ML workloads has enabled customers to modernize their applications and infrastructure in a cohesive manner.