We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Public Cloud Storage Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Amazon S3 is easy to use and it is beneficial to use the CLI to make the backups. Since I use the CLI I do not have to do it on a web portal which is a big advantage because everything can be automatized. Automation can be done very well in Amazon S3."
"An important feature of the Amazon S3's system is that it offers encryption while the files are at rest. This is crucial in ensuring the security of the files being restored and addressing potential security risks. That's what I would emphasize."
"The most valuable features are VNet, virtual machines, and Elastic Kubernetes Service."
"Amazon S3 is easily accessible, fast and effective. Its performance is good."
"It is easy to manage and easy to understand."
"What I found most valuable in Amazon S3 is its versioning feature. I also like that you can create pre-signed URLs on the solution."
"You don't have to specify your clone, availability clone, or your locations. Everything's over there. They have a receipt for the instance where we have to select the exact location of what we are clicking. The S3 storage capacity is high, and the price is reasonable."
"The most valuable feature of the product is storage classes."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is easy to use. New employees are able to come up to speed fairly quickly with regard to the day-to-day administration processes."
"The customer service executives of all Nutanix products are active and responsive."
"The most valuable feature is that it is highly available, solving the pain-point of delaying updates to Windows-based file servers during production hours. And then the second one would be ransomware protection and analytics. It gives you great visibility and protection on your file shares that are otherwise the most common sources of vulnerabilities."
"Nutanix Volumes is a perfectly stable product."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Unified Storage is redundancy."
"The reliability and availability are the most valuable features. Reliability is important because it can run my workloads. I need to be able to take advantage of the VMs that are executing on the storage. It has to be reliable. It's also important to have the storage available for scaling VMs on demand."
"The integration with Prism Central makes it a lot easier to manage, so we just have a single pane of glass location that we can go to. We do not have a separate admin console or anything that we have to use."
"Unified Storage's centralized management features enable us to accomplish whatever we want in terms of operations and migrations."
"It could maybe use more integration."
"Amazon S3 could improve by providing some type of storage notification."
"When we need to find the queries there is no user interface, it is the only textual format that is bulky. If we need some data we will use Athena for queries and we will get results. When comparing this solution to others, such as DataDog, they provide a wonderful UI, and user-friendly dashboards, and many other features that this solution is lacking."
"It is difficult to retrieve files in an emergency because the public cloud has data limits for immediate downloads."
"Technical support could have a faster response time."
"If a certain resource is left unchecked, you can easily use a lot of it and drive up costs."
"One thing would be automatic replication between buckets, some feature like that."
"Amazon S3 needs to simplify the backup features."
"Managing other storage infrastructure on Nutanix Files Storage is an area for improvement. In particular, I want to add other forms of storage from different vendors not currently in Nutanix Files Storage, to the file server, for better management."
"Unified Storage failed to fulfill our object storage requirements."
"The management is pretty clunky, in my opinion. It could be a little bit better."
"Improving quota policies would be advantageous, particularly by offering the option to implement blocking instead of just issuing warnings."
"The current hardware is not as dense as it could be. In our deployment, we have 2 PB per site, and we have to have 24 nodes. That's a lot of cabling and network ports that we use up. More dense nodes would be better."
"Another aspect that needs improvement is continuous protection against security threats such as ransomware and potential data leakage."
"The interface is not logical. It should be a little simpler."
"While they are good and they do work, some of the snapshotting and tiering features are not as simple to set up as they could be."
Amazon S3 is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 70 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 41 reviews. Amazon S3 is rated 8.8, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 writes "Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Overview". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". Amazon S3 is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier and Oracle Cloud Archive Storage, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our Amazon S3 vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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