Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) review
A strong fit for Nutanix teams extending workloads across four public clouds.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) extends the Nutanix Cloud Platform onto public-cloud bare-metal infrastructure. It is designed for organizations running virtual machines and containers across on-premises environments and AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or OVHcloud. Teams can use it for workload migration, cloud bursting, disaster recovery, datacenter extension, elastic scaling, Kubernetes modernization, and native cloud-service integration. NC2 retains control over deployment and workload placement rather than operating as a fully managed service.
Pricing is based on Nutanix software and is charged per node per hour with monthly billing. The NCI Pro — z1d.metal PAYG plan starts at $2.496 per node per hour and includes 24 cores, 384 GiB memory, and 1.64 TiB NVMe SSD. NCI Ultimate — z1d.metal PAYG is listed at $3.144 per node per hour with the same stated hardware highlights. Annual versions are available for both NCI Pro and NCI Ultimate, with annual pricing shown for z1d.metal. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or OVHcloud infrastructure charges are separate, and PAYG pricing varies by bare-metal instance and cloud provider.
NC2’s main strength is continuity across Nutanix environments and four public clouds, supported by unified management, on-demand provisioning, cloud snapshots, secondary clusters, and integrations such as AWS S3, Google Cloud native services, and Google Kubernetes Engine. It also supports dedicated connectivity through VPC integration, VPN, and cloud interconnect options. The trade-off is a narrower platform ecosystem and the responsibility of operating clusters through Nutanix management tools. Choose NC2 when Nutanix is already central to the environment and workload placement across clouds matters; consider an alternative when you want a fully managed service or broader platform coverage.
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Runs unified Nutanix clusters across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OVHcloud
- Supports migration, elastic scaling, disaster recovery, and Kubernetes
- Adds VPC, VPN, and cloud interconnect options for private connectivity
- Where it doesn't
- No free plan is available
- Public-cloud infrastructure charges are billed separately
- Narrower ecosystem than broader hybrid-cloud platforms
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