Top Azure Files Alternatives & Competitors 2026

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1. VMware Cloud on AWS

4.3

This tool has made our cloud migration much smoother. It combines the familiarity of VMware tools with the flexibility and scalability of AWS.

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2. Nasuni File Data Platform

By Nasuni

4.8

(138 Ratings)

I was initially a skeptic, when I joined the company there were performance questions around the product and a large proportion of the company wanted to replace the Nasuni platform with alternative products. After articulating our issues and concerns about what we were seeing, the customer success team mobilised a task-force of technicians, developers and a project manager to address our concerns. It turned out the main performance issue was caused by a misconfiguration on our part - this was quickly identified and rectified by the team. In addition to the headline problem, we also did a deeper dive into our performance concerns and all of these were addressed one by one. From my many previous experiences with multiple technology suppliers, spanning many years of trouble-shooting and escalating to the deep technical resources of storage product manufacturers this told me I was dealing with one of the 'good' ones. The best measure of a product/support organisation is what they do when presented with a difficult problem. The ones you want to work with are the ones that jump into the trenches with you, take ownership of the problem, and come back to you with good technical answers and actionable solutions.

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3. AWS Storage Gateway

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.4

(74 Ratings)

Our on-premise system, which we have developed, integrated and is currently in operation, collects a large quantity of data. The data is organized in several tiers, where the most recent data is accessed frequently, while older data is accessed very sporadically. To be compliant with business and disaster recovery requirements, we cannot keep this data just on one site because in case of disaster recovery, an instance of the system needs to be available at another site. Instead of developing our own solution, we use AWS Storage Volume Gateway in stored mode. It provides the necessary glue between the on-premise infrastructure on which the system runs, and the cloud storage where data is asynchronously synchronized to.

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4. CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform

By CTERA

4.8

(71 Ratings)

As we are using more than 3 years , And the product stability , scalability are very good. Every new release , we get the required enhancement.

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5. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

By NetApp

4.8

(50 Ratings)

CVO deployment solved our issues - where we needed to server both SMB and NFS together to our clients.

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6. PeerSync Migration

By Peer Software

4.3

(43 Ratings)

It is a reliable tool for migration as it offers me to reorganize my data as per my need during the moves which is impressive. It resumes automatically if the connection drops by any means.

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7. Azure Local

By Microsoft

4.5

(39 Ratings)

Azure Local has been a really helpful tool because it’s dependable, can handle growing needs and keeps things safe, it’s made our process much more efficient and helps us respond to issues faster.

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8. Azure VMware

By Broadcom (VMware)

4.6

(32 Ratings)

It provides a seamless way to extend on-premises VMware environments into the cloud without requiring major refactoring. It significantly simplifies migration by allowing organizations to run familiar VMware tools like vSphere, vSAN and NSX directly on Azure infrastructure.

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1. VMware Cloud on AWS

2. Nasuni File Data Platform

3. AWS Storage Gateway

4. CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform

5. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

6. PeerSync Migration

7. Azure Local

8. Azure VMware

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