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."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."
"Amazon S3's best features are its reliability and capacity to expand."
"The product helps to define storage type based on the requirement."
"Feature-wise, Amazon S3 is the cheapest and it's reliable."
"The solution's peak-up time is good."
"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the global availability, resiliency, and ease of access control."
"I don't have any problems with the solution. It's issue-free."
"Uploads are secure and occur instantly."
"Nutanix Unified Storage does a very good job of unifying our organization's block, file, and object storage. It puts it all in one place. From one platform, we can deploy S3-type buckets. We can provide iSCSI-level block storage if we need to. It does a great job with home folders and departmental shares, which is what we mostly use Nutanix Unified Storage for."
"What I found most valuable in Nutanix Files Storage is its high availability and ability to scale out with many VMs."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is a simple, user-friendly, and stable solution."
"The life cycle managers of the PCMs are very impressive, and I like them. They make our lives easy when managing patches and security updates when they come in. A life cycle manager helps to consolidate different vendors."
"The customer service executives of all Nutanix products are active and responsive."
"I like Nutanix Prism Central. The primary benefit is that we can manage everything from the same page."
"The scalability, ease of use, and technical support are the most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage."
"My opinion is that this solution has very good stability."
"The read drive speed is not as fast as it should be."
"The solution could improve by having a simpler way to have the detail size of a file in the CLI to be read or understood easier. Today, it's a little raw in the way the details are presented. You have to make some scripts and some modifications to be able to see the information properly of the size of a given bucket or the size of a file."
"They could always increase object storage ability."
"Amazon S3 could improve the performance reports. It would be a benefit if they were more comprehensive."
"Amazon S3's unit of measure for expansion should be smaller."
"Amazon S3 needs to simplify the backup features."
"Amazon S3 should have more frequent updates."
"Maybe it could be a bit cheaper."
"The documentation on the support site needs to be improved."
"We would love to see the analytics and ransomware protection extended beyond just file servers to virtual machines, but they have a different product that covers that."
"Security is an area for improvement. When there are vulnerabilities, there needs to be a faster approval process. The solution needs to automatically target the vulnerabilities and not waste too much time."
"The GUI is not user-friendly for new users and has room for improvement."
"Allowing the use of the Gflag compromises the integrity of the Nutanix system and its established standards."
"Unified Storage failed to fulfill our object storage requirements."
"The escalation process with technical support could do with some improvement."
"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 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 65 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 7th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 39 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 Rackspace Cloud Files, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Microsoft Azure File Storage. See our Amazon S3 vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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