Amazon Launches Virtual Desktop Service, Slashes Prices Again
March 27, 2014
Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: Editorial Staff.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made its new cloud-based Desktop as a Service (DaaS) offering generally available. The release of Amazon WorkSpaces, announced in November at its re:Invent customer and partner conference in Las Vegas, will provide a key measure for whether there’s a broad market for DaaS.
But VMware and Google also have ambitious plans with their DaaS services, which they launched last month. VMware Horizon, a DaaS offering priced similarly to Amazon WorkSpaces, is the result of VMware’s Desktone acquisition last year. Giving VMware more muscle in the game, the company teamed up with Google to enable the latter to offer its Chromebooks with the VMware Horizon View service…
When announcing Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon only offered a "limited preview" of the service, which provides a virtual Windows 7 experience. A wide variety of use cases were tested, from corporate desktops to engineering workstations, said AWS evangelist Jeff Barr in a blog post this week announcing the general availability of the service. Barr identified two early testers, Peet’s Coffee & Tea and ERP supplier WorkWise…
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