AWS Workspaces vs Azure Virtual Desktop
There are not too many things more stressful than working in IT and hearing your manager tell your team that the company is going fully remote in a couple of weeks and your team needs to be ready to support that shift! Any of us that were working in the IT world in early 2020 can certainly relate! If you’re ever faced with this challenge, many things will probably race across your mind. How will we provide the hardware and software required for the employees to do their jobs? Using a cloud provider to provide virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to your employees is a great way to solve many of these cloud enablement issues, so let’s take a look at Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) and AWS Workspaces to find the fit that’s best for you. What’s a Virtual Desktop? In short, we can utilize Azure, AWS or many other options to provide virtual desktops to users that have the applications they need either pre-installed or provided as needed. Now you could just deploy