By Simon Sharwood
Publication Date: 2025-12-24 02:35:00
Amazon Web Services has given Nutanix a lovely Christmas present: Support for its AHV hypervisor in hybrid cloud storage rigs.
AWS is keen on anything that drives demand for its services, and one of the tools it uses to get users interested in its cloudy storage offerings is the Storage Gateway, a tool that connects hypervisors to its Simple Storage Service (S3).
The cloud giant previously made Storage Gateway available as a workload for VMware’s ESXi, Microsoft’s Hyper-V, and Linux KVM.
On Monday, AWS announced support for AHV, too.
As AWS noted in its announcement, AHV is KVM-based, suggesting it wasn’t a stretch to add support for Nutanix.
Amazon’s enthusiasm for AHV emerged just 12 days after Nutanix delivered the integration with Pure Storage that it announced in May 2025. The company’s tie-up with Pure followed a similar deal with Dell. Both reflect Nutanix’s admission that while its native software-defined storage is an excellent offering, the majority of its current and potential customers aren’t going to stop using external arrays any time soon.
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