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 a virtual machine and call that a virtual desktop, but if you want scalability, security, ease of use, and more, you’ll want to go with a virtual desktop infrastructure solution.


Comparing Azure Virtual Desktop to AWS Workspaces

Let’s say you work at ABC Inc, a company that produces food products and garden designs. You just got word that the designers, call center employees, and finance departments are going fully remote. Thankfully, you’ve been keeping up to date with the cloud world and you know you can use either Azure VDI or AWS Workspaces to provide virtual desktops for your co-workers, but which one should you choose? Let’s take a look and help our little gnome friends out!

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