Windows 365 is effectively a desktop computer running in the cloud, Desktop-as-a-service (DaaS). It is built on the underlying Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) infrastructure. Effectively you can open your browser, fill in a few details and have your own desktop in the cloud.
We have been looking over this the last week and just wanted to bring together a post to reflect on what we have already discovered.
There is several pros and cons that we can see as it stands now:
Windows 365
Pros
Cost-effective, fixed price - so you know exactly how much you are paying or do we? Although the pricing is fixed, bandwidth is limited per month on the business version depending on the option you go for starting with 12GB outbound data up to 70GB of outbound data for the higher end option. Also, if you are running the enterprise version of W365, you manage the VNET (Virtual Networking) so all associated costs of this are charged additionally to the ‘fixed price’.
The pricing model is an operational-expenditure with no lengthy contracts – however you still need a physical device to connect to your Cloud PC. The good news is this is platform agnostic and will run on any standard web browser with internet access.
Azure Virtual DesktopProsEnterprise ready, for management including backups.
You can scale your devices on a consumption base rather than a fixed cost. With big savings being made when a device is turned off.
GPU devices are already available for any of them tasks that rely heavily on GPU processing.
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