While Nutanix provides multiple management interfaces, each serves a distinct purpose in the hybrid cloud lifecycle. Prism Central and Prism Element are used for managing software-level entities like VMs, storage containers, and replication policies. However, for thedefinitive status of the cluster ' s cloud infrastructure—including whether the bare-metal nodes are provisioned, if the cluster is in a " Healthy, " " Degraded, " or " Failed " state, or if a " boot timeout " has occurred—administrators must usethe NC2 Portal. The NC2 Portal acts as the primary orchestration layer that bridges Nutanix and AWS; it is the only console that displays specific cloud deployment tasks, hardware replacement status, and AWS-raised infrastructure events in a unified view.