Nutanix has announced general availability of Nutanix Clusters hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. Key use cases targeted are the ability to lift and shift workloads to the public cloud, in particular in cloud-bursting scenarios as well as disaster recovery uses.
Nutanix Clusters on AWS was already available as an early-access scheme and is aimed for use on bare metal instances on EC2. According to Nutanix senior vice-president (SVP) of engineering, Manoj Agarwal, the product will run equally on-premise or in the cloud because, in both cases, what’s happening is deployment of an operating system to commodity hardware.
