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Nutanix Expands AWS Partnership with Migration Incentives

• By David Ramel
• 11/21/2024

Hybrid multicloud computing specialist Nutanix expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), aiming to accelerate cloud migration and provide customers with options for managing workloads across on-premises and the cloud.

The expanded partnership involves Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS, a years-old offering designed to help customers extend their on-premises Nutanix environment to AWS, enabling seamless application migration and unified operations across clouds.

Now, the expanded partnership seeks to further that migration initiative with promotional credits, free trials, simplified procurement, enhanced integration and expanded access to AWS services such as AWS Databases, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services.

Additional customer benefits, the company said, include:

• Faster, low-risk app migrations. Move workloads quickly and predictably with the Nutanix Move migration tool, without costly application refactoring and, at the same time, minimize migration risks with bi-directional portability.
• Effortless scale and flexibility. Drive IT automation across the entire hybrid cloud stack, on-premises and in the cloud leveraging the elasticity of AWS to manage expected and unexpected capacity demands.
• Increase cloud efficiency. Increase cloud resource efficiency to reduce cloud costs through use of bare-metal platforms in AWS with a unified control plane, consistent automation mechanisms and lifecycle management for virtual machines. Simplify procurement by using AWS Marketplace for all Nutanix software licensing.

"For those customers migrating workloads from an on-premises VMware environment, the VMware to Nutanix Migration promotion offers eligible customers with one year of free Nutanix licensing (for terms of 3 years or more) along with partner-delivered migration support," the company said in a Nov. 7 blog post. "Additionally, customers migrating workloads from other clouds or on-premises will also have access to the AWS Migration Acceleration Program benefits, including migration assessment and support with AWS credits, as well as Nutanix licensing pricing promotions."

Furthermore, customers migrating from VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS to Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS can now access promotional credits through the AWS VMware Migration Accelerator. These credits help reduce migration costs and can be applied to AWS bare metal services that support the NC2 solution.

"The collaboration between Nutanix and AWS to offer NC2 on AWS represents a significant leap forward for Accenture to help clients manage diverse workloads, bridging on-premises and cloud environments," Nutanix quoted Andy Tay, Cloud First Global Lead at Accenture, as saying. "By combining the strengths of Nutanix and AWS, with our industry knowledge and cloud expertise, we're setting a new standard for clients to be ready for business reinvention through a strong, integrated digital core, enabling businesses to be more agile and innovative."