AWS targets desktop virtualization rigs with lift and shift to cloudy DaaS

Amazon Web Services is moving to bring desktop virtualization (VDI) into the age of desktop-as-a-service. VDI's share of all desktops has hovered below five percent for years because the tech is not trivial to deploy: hefty servers and a well-groomed network – and often a fast SAN – are required. Some overprovisioning of that …

[thondwe]

Arcane Licencing and $$$ End Points

Arcane MS Licencing has certainly held back VDI for decades - getting a simple concurrent user to a Windows Desktop OS instance has never been easy.

Plus, as ever, the costs of backend plus often a client that's as expensive as a PC mean it's always going to be a niche hobby for those with deep pockets.

[Anonymous Coward]

"because Citrix can already point its VDI products at Microsoft's Azure Virtual Desktops"

And sensibly built their infrastructure on Azure too. Seeing as anyone that is anyone's data is in O365 too why would you use AWS except for niche use cases?

[Anonymous Coward]

Not all cloud providers are created equal. Care about resilience & availability? How about management & security ? Azure and AWS are built differently. 1) Many of the regions in Azure are built on a single AZ. 2) AVD isn’t “fully managed” for example admins are still required to manage the underlying session hosts 3) If you have a non windows workload, good luck 4) Azure has had more outages than AWS 4) Customer Obsession/Cost optimization 5) Security 6) More service offerings of any cloud provider

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