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Nutanix Expands Distributed Sovereign Cloud Capabilities

• By David Ramel
• 12/15/2025

Nutanix today announced a broad set of enhancements across its Nutanix Cloud Platform aimed at helping organizations build and operate distributed sovereign cloud environments.

The updates span infrastructure, security, resilience, and management capabilities, and are accompanied by the release of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure 7.5, which introduces additional functionality focused on resilience, security, and global operations.

According to Nutanix, the new capabilities are designed for organizations operating across multiple regions and cloud environments that must meet sovereignty, compliance, and business continuity requirements while avoiding dependence on a single cloud provider. The company said the enhancements support deployments across customer-controlled environments, sovereign cloud providers, and hybrid combinations of both, including fully disconnected or air-gapped sites.

"As sovereign cloud architectures become a defining priority for organizations, we're introducing several enhancements to the Nutanix Cloud Platform that help customers meet these needs without giving up the advantages of a distributed cloud infrastructure," said Thomas Cornely, executive vice president of product management at Nutanix. "These new capabilities give customers the clarity and control needed to draw their own sovereign boundaries across distributed environments and leverage the resiliency and flexibility that distributed clouds provide."

On the infrastructure and governance side, Nutanix said it now supports orchestrated lifecycle management for multiple dark-site environments and offers on-premises deployment options for governance and control planes. Nutanix Central, used for distributed cloud management, can now run in customer-controlled on-premises environments, and Nutanix Data Lens is expected to gain similar on-premises deployment support.

Nutanix also expanded its sovereign cloud footprint through partner offerings. Nutanix Government Cloud Clusters on Amazon Web Services is now available for U.S. federal agencies, enabling Nutanix clusters to run entirely within an agency's Amazon Virtual Private Cloud without external SaaS dependencies. Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Google Cloud is now generally available across 17 regions worldwide, while additional Azure and AWS regions in the United States and OVHcloud in Europe extend regionally compliant deployment options.

Security and compliance updates include renewed SOC 2 Type 2 audits and ISO certifications for Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure and AWS, along with a first-time CSA Star Level 2 certification for NC2 on Azure in 2025. Nutanix also announced plans for a FIPS 140-3-validated and STIG-compliant Ubuntu Pro image for the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, along with expanded microsegmentation, network isolation, and load balancing for containerized workloads. For AI deployments, Nutanix Enterprise AI now supports government-ready NVIDIA AI Enterprise software with STIG-hardened and FIPS-enabled NVIDIA NIM microservices.

Resilience enhancements focus on maintaining application availability across sites and regions during outages. Nutanix said customers can now apply tiered disaster recovery strategies that align protection levels to individual workloads, support business continuity through multiple site or region failures, and integrate multicloud snapshots into cyber-resilience strategies. Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes extends these protections to containerized applications using both block and file storage.

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure 7.5
Alongside the platform updates, Nutanix released Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure 7.5, which introduces new capabilities in resilience, security, and global management. The release increases supported all-flash capacity to 185 TB per node, adds VM startup policies to automate application recovery sequencing, and enables multi-strategy replication using synchronous, near-synchronous, and asynchronous modes within a single protection policy. NCI 7.5 also scales disaster recovery support to as many as 10,000 virtual machines per Prism Central instance.

Security-related additions in NCI 7.5 include unified networking for virtual machines and Kubernetes workloads through Nutanix Flow Virtual Networking, support for authenticated NTP, centralized key management for virtual TPMs, and reusable guest customization profiles for automated Windows deployments. For global operations, Nutanix said the release improves management at scale, adds automation for air-gapped upgrade workflows, expands Cisco integration during initial cluster deployment, and introduces support for external storage using qualified Pure Storage FlashArray systems.

Together, Nutanix said the platform updates and the NCI 7.5 release are intended to provide organizations with greater control over data placement, security boundaries, and operational consistency as they design and operate distributed sovereign cloud environments.