Amazon Windows VDI

wes allen

Looks kinda cool, $35 a month isn't to bad, I guess.

https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/

the_Grinch

Literally just read an article about this! While interesting, I do question if you would get the ROI. When I was at the university we often talked about this since a large number of people could use this setup without issue (all web apps and Office). So at first, $50 a month sounds like it would do it. But that is $600 a year and at that price you are talking about a new desktop for every user every year. With our discounts, we were slightly under $500 a year per machine and since most of our apps were web apps people could work from home anyhow (not that they ever did). Definitely a great concept and I do tend to think VDI will be the future, but right now it's tough to justify. Especially since they'll still need some form of hardware to run the virtual desktop so you're still spending cash on that.