Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) vs Spacelift comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Nutanix Cloud Clusters and Spacelift compete in the realm of cloud integration and infrastructure deployment. Nutanix Cloud Clusters holds an edge due to its comprehensive cloud integration capabilities and strong features across hybrid environments.

Features: Nutanix Cloud Clusters provides robust cloud integration capabilities with a full suite of on-premises features replicated in the cloud, enhancing flexibility and cost management. Its strengths lie in scalability, stability, and effective management of business-critical workloads while eliminating cloud waste. Spacelift excels with integration with Terraform and efficient infrastructure deployment, offering management and Drift Detection, and GitOps features.

Room for Improvement: Nutanix Cloud Clusters faces challenges with low adoption rates, complex pricing, cumbersome restore process, networking issues, and early-stage bugs with support challenges. Suggestions include enhancing Prism Central features and simplifying initial setup. Spacelift struggles with cloud integrations in its self-hosted version, lacks comprehensive features for complex deployments and needs better notification systems and simplified IAM role management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nutanix Cloud Clusters is adaptable across hybrid, on-premises, and public cloud environments, with varying technical support experiences from excellent to needing improvement. Nutanix support is praised for responsiveness though some suggest speed and knowledge enhancements. Spacelift primarily operates in public cloud environments, with users finding integration easy and customer service generally well-received, desiring complete feature parity between versions.

Pricing and ROI: Nutanix Cloud Clusters' licensing complexity and expense are offset by license portability and potential significant savings, reducing total cost of ownership. Spacelift offers cost savings over competitors like Terraform Enterprise despite being perceived as costly. Substantial savings justify its price, with positive ROI and early cost and productivity benefits reported for both solutions.

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Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) vs. Spacelift

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Review summaries and opinions

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ROI

Sentiment score

6.8

Users expect significant ROI from Nutanix Cloud Clusters, citing cost savings, boosted productivity, enhanced management, and future long-term savings.

Sentiment score

5.6

Spacelift drastically cuts costs and boosts efficiency in infrastructure deployment, offering significant value, particularly for larger organizations.

In time, it has proven beneficial because we no longer have to have hands-on management of a server environment; really, one engineer does it.

Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank

In comparison, five years ago, we purchased 30 nodes on-prem, and now we are only using six nodes in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2).

Venu Karate

Global Infrastructure& Cloud Operations at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

I would say our total cost of ownership has been reduced by approximately 30% to 50%.

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Senior IT Engineer at Estes Express Lines

We are just pushing code from Git to GitHub, which then sends it to Spacelift, checking for drifts and starting continuous deployment.

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Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The metrics show that fewer employees are needed, money is saved based on past experiences with different cloud management or Infrastructure as Code management tools, and efficiency has improved significantly in terms of Infrastructure as Code deployment.

Rahul Aher

cloud engineer at softwareone

Anything that reduces the amount of work needed to do repetitive tasks is a bonus.

Ilan Bowen

Senior Devops Engineer at SAM Seamless

Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.4

Nutanix Cloud Clusters support is praised for expertise and efficiency, though some note response times could improve.

Sentiment score

5.1

Spacelift's customer service receives mixed feedback, praised for responsiveness but compared unfavorably to major services like AWS.

The people I get are intelligent and know how to fix the issue the first time I call them, so it's been great.

Senior IT Engineer at Estes Express Lines

The customer service and technical support have been very helpful; they jump on calls with us and stay engaged until any issues are resolved.

ScottMorgan

Director at Lightpath

They're good and help us whenever we need them.

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Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank

I have asked them various queries, and they provided perfect solutions along with good detailed documentation.

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Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The customer support is fantastic as they reply over Slack immediately and get to work on a solution whenever I need them.

reviewer2846268

Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The SLO and SLA being really fast to answer.

Rodrigo Aires

Dev Ops Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.6

Nutanix Cloud Clusters offers efficient scalability, supporting easy expansion and addressing diverse enterprise workload requirements despite configuration challenges.

Sentiment score

5.5

Spacelift efficiently scales to manage large workloads and multiple Terraform projects, ensuring stability and functionality across deployments.

During builds, it was very scalable, and adding or removing nodes was far quicker than if we were to do that on-prem in our own data center.

reviewer2703927

Virtualization engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

In the cloud clusters, we can instantly request a host-level host to add to Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), and it will automatically expand.

ShyamikaThamel

Associate Tech Specialists at Seatrium

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) scales very effectively with the growing needs of my company, and it does so very fast and quickly.

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Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank

Spacelift's scalability is very good as it scales very well with the environment because I can add agents to it with more workload, so it's quite excellent.

reviewer2846268

Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Spacelift can handle increased workloads well, managing more servers as our organization grows, and it is indeed scalable.

Sjamjam Jamjan

Lead Devops Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Based on the requests and the Linux Docker machines I provision, it becomes more stable, and the runs happen very quickly.

Rahul Aher

cloud engineer at softwareone

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.8

Nutanix Cloud Clusters are highly reliable, offer strong performance and support, and are praised for uptime and self-healing.

Sentiment score

8.5

Spacelift is highly stable and reliable, with a 99% success rate and no significant stability issues reported by users.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is very reliable with 99.99% uptime.

Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank

The stability and reliability of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are commendable.

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Senior IT Engineer at Estes Express Lines

I have found Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) to be stable and reliable.

Venu Karate

Global Infrastructure& Cloud Operations at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

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Room For Improvement

Nutanix Cloud Clusters needs better pricing, interfaces, scalability, and enhanced tools for setup, integration, and cross-platform compatibility.

Spacelift needs to enhance user onboarding, error clarity, pricing transparency, UI design, integrations, and documentation for improved user experience.

The one thing that stands out is the costing, especially if you check the NCM module, where you see the cost of the VM, which is defined by the customer rather than how the calculations work if that VM is a reserved instance.

Venu Karate

Global Infrastructure& Cloud Operations at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

My suggestion would be getting up to speed on ransomware and evolving, as attackers are always one step ahead of what's out there.

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Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank

Some features that people say Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) lacks could be simplified to make it easier, such as a single pane of glass, and getting more into Google Cloud would be very helpful for our team as we're working on GCP interfaces.

Bill Illis

Vice President, Technical Operations at The IT Group, LLC

It can improve areas in scalability and integrate some open-source tools.

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Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The engineering team behind Spacelift is very responsive whenever I submit a feature request, and there's a very good chance I would see it within the next year.

reviewer2846268

Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The OPA policy writing is not very beginner-friendly either, and the error messages when a policy fails are not always clear.

reviewer2847357

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

Setup Cost

Nutanix Cloud Clusters pricing is costly but fair, with migration challenges, license portability, and expense optimization benefits.

Spacelift offers competitive pricing, with substantial savings over alternatives, despite occasional clarity issues in licensing and perceived costs.

Our partners at Nutanix did work with us recently and reduced a huge licensing cost for us.

Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank

For us, the pricing and costs have been fair.

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Senior IT Engineer at Estes Express Lines

When working with my sales representatives, everything is included, they've been very helpful, and it's been within our price range for the most part.

Bill Illis

Vice President, Technical Operations at The IT Group, LLC

The next standard plan costs three hundred ninety-nine dollars per month for ten concurrent users.

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Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The spaces have been a major aspect of managing things, and the contacts for the resources I provide internally in Spacelift are quite affordable, effective, and useful.

Rahul Aher

cloud engineer at softwareone

My experience with pricing shows that the setup cost is reasonable, and the licensing also seems reasonable.

Sjamjam Jamjan

Lead Devops Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Valuable Features

Nutanix Cloud Clusters provide efficient management, scalability, cost optimization, and seamless integration across hybrid environments, enhancing disaster recovery.

Spacelift enhances team efficiency, collaboration, and infrastructure management with automation, integrations, and Terraform support for improved deployment speed.

We're not limited based on the hardware that we have. We allow ourselves room for growth, and we can literally grow from today to tomorrow to ensure that we're handling our growth.

Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank

We used to have a light-for-light kind of build-out in another data center in a different location. Now, we can pare that down to just a couple of nodes and know that we can burst it out when we need to.

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Senior IT Engineer at Estes Express Lines

Nutanix's license portability is a very valuable tool for us because we were building our own data center, so we've bought on-prem licenses and then utilize that for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2).

ScottMorgan

Director at Lightpath

We can apply those policies in Spacelift, and the RBAC and access policies features are really excellent in Spacelift, which we do not find in any of the other competitor tools.

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Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Spacelift has positively impacted my organization by reducing manpower, as it reduced the efforts of resources in the team, where previously a job done by two or three engineers can now be easily managed by one engineer using Spacelift.

reviewer2847312

Technical Lead at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

You create so many different modules and so many different versions. Having a very easy way to navigate and search through them all, and the fact that you can actually see the commit ID and description really helps in discovering what was actually in that version of the module.

Ilan Bowen

Senior Devops Engineer at SAM Seamless

Categories and Ranking

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Ranking in Cloud Management

10th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (8th), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (3rd)

Spacelift

Ranking in Cloud Management

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

AI Software Development (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is 1.3%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spacelift is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Spacelift	1.2%
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)	1.3%
Other	97.5%

Cloud Management

Featured Reviews

Enables us to grow at the speed of business and be ready for whatever is coming

Manager, Information Technology Engineers at IBC Bank

What I admire most about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is its scalability; that option that everybody seems to eventually go to is cloud, and we're ready for that when we decide. This scalability feature has improved my company because we can grow at the speed of business, and that's very important. We're not limited by the hardware that we have. We allow ourselves room for growth, and we can literally grow from today to tomorrow to ensure that we're handling our growth. The scalability is critical for us, especially in the banking industry, where we just get bigger every year.

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Automation of cloud infrastructure has transformed how our team manages Terraform workflows

Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Spacelift has other features beyond Terraform, including Ansible, Pulumi, Terragrunt, and it also helps with Kubernetes, although we haven't used it for the other tools. We have only used it for Terraform Infrastructure as Code, and it has helped us significantly. One standout feature compared to Terraform Cloud is the ability to apply policies. For example, we want to restrict engineers in our team from building servers with a particular SKU, such as in Azure, where we do not want to run servers with a SKU higher than the standard D4sv5. We can apply those policies in Spacelift, and the RBAC and access policies features are really excellent in Spacelift, which we do not find in any of the other competitor tools. The pricing is also competitive compared to Terraform Cloud. The access policy features allow us to assign specific policies since we have three environments in our company: Dev, QA, and Prod. We assign policies so that anyone can run code from Dev and QA servers, but we assign a policy for specific people, such as managers, to run code in Prod. This is a very good feature from Spacelift that we have implemented for the access policy. Spacelift has positively impacted our organization as a CI/CD tool for application deployment and development. Although we use other CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, there wasn't a specific tool for Terraform Infrastructure as Code until Spacelift came along. It allows us to easily configure our servers and build a number of them on our cloud. While other CI/CD tools have started to include configuration features, Spacelift offers many other benefits that make it an excellent tool to use.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Educational Organization

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)?

I'm not familiar with the contracts, but I thought the process was pretty seamless. Licensing for the Nutanix part was the same as licensing something on-prem, and since it runs on bare metal EC2, ...

What needs improvement with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)?

From an improvement perspective, I cannot see anything at this point because I used those Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) at that moment, but I am currently not using it. The pricing could be lower.

What is your primary use case for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)?

I use the workload migration feature between clouds, such as migrating from VMware to Nutanix. I use Nutanix Move to migrate workloads from Nutanix Move. However, in some cases with our failover cl...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Spacelift?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that licensing was somewhat unclear when HashiCorp changed their own licensing.

What needs improvement with Spacelift?

It would be nice to have out-of-the-box A/B testing with Spacelift because we still use some custom features for that. Out-of-the-box A/B testing is the main thing I would like to add about the nee...

What is your primary use case for Spacelift?

We manage a lot of AWS deployments with Spacelift configs, so we have a main use case for it. We also use it for versioning and spinning up new environments. Recently we used Spacelift for deployin...

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Overview

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) provide scalable and cost-efficient infrastructure management across cloud and on-premises environments. With features like data portability and ease of setup, NC2 enables seamless migration without application refactoring.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) supports businesses in managing hybrid IT environments, enhancing disaster recovery, and optimizing workloads. Users value NC2 for its unified management platform and redundancy features, facilitating cloud migration and integration with major cloud providers. Challenges include pricing and initial setup complexity, as well as feature parity between different cloud services.

What are the key features of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)?

Scalability: Easily scales resources to meet business demands.
Cost Management: Controls and reduces cloud-related expenses.
Data Portability: Ensures seamless migration between environments.
Unified Management: Manages both cloud and on-premises platforms from one place.
Integration: Connects efficiently with multiple cloud providers.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Redundancy: Enhances disaster recovery capabilities and operational resilience.
License Portability: Simplifies license management across different environments.
Optimized Workloads: Maintains performance and reduces unnecessary costs.
Efficient Setup: Simplifies initial adjustments, ensuring quick deployment.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) find application in industries requiring reliable infrastructure management, like finance and healthcare, to safeguard critical systems. Organizations leverage NC2 for virtual desktops, application modernization, and smooth transition to cloud operations, improving data security and replication processes.

Nutanix

The Spacelift orchestration platform combines infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and governance to increase platform team efficiency, accelerate developer velocity, and control costs. It connects to and orchestrates infrastructure as code, version control systems (VCSs), observability tools, control and governance solutions, and cloud providers to help deliver secure infrastructure faster. With Spacelift Intelligence, teams can also understand, design, deploy, and govern infrastructure using natural language, giving developers a fast, governed path to infrastructure without adding to the platform team's backlog.

Infrastructure provisioning: Stacks ensure faster, more secure provisioning by automatically combining source code, current infrastructure state, and configuration. The platform works with any major IaC tool or cloud platform and the VCS provider where your teams store infrastructure code.

Configuration automation: Expand your capabilities beyond Terraform and OpenTofu with a workflow that also manages Ansible playbooks.

Governance to balance speed and control: Reinforce security and compliance with controls over developer/DevOps activity. Provide Golden Paths and define custom policies for third-party security vulnerability scanning tools, while accelerating policy creation with best-practice templates. Detect drift automatically, and restore resources to their expected state with drift remediation.

Integrated workflow: Easily create workflows that combine IaC for provisioning, Ansible for configuration management, Kubernetes for container orchestration, and policies for governance. Blueprint templates allow you to open your infrastructure pipelines to developers without losing control.

Infra Assistant: Your AI infrastructure assistant that can understand, design, deploy, and govern infrastructure in plain language. Ask questions about your infrastructure state that dashboards and reports can't answer. Get expert design guidance before you deploy, create and apply policies with AI assistance and diagnose failures faster with AI-generated context across your stacks, dependencies, and history.

Intent: A no-code, AI-based deployment model for maximum speed. Developers request infrastructure through their LLM via Spacelift MCP. Intent translates those requests into governed infrastructure actions with the same policies, credentials, and visibility as IaC, without requiring Terraform expertise.

Sample Customers

The Home Depot, JetBlue, Hyundai, ShiftLeft

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