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Azure Virtual Desktop Alternatives

About Azure Virtual Desktop

A flexible cloud virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platform that securely delivers virtual desktops and remote apps with maximum control.

What are the top Azure Virtual Desktop Alternatives?

Check out this list of the best Azure Virtual Desktop alternatives. Compare the top features, pricing, pros & cons and user ratings to suit your needs.

#1 Alternative

About Amazon WorkSpaces

Secure, reliable, and scalable access to virtual desktops from any location.

  • Provide secure access to apps and data stored on AWS rather than on vulnerable endpoint devices.

  • Maximize productivity and business continuity with a financially backed 99.9% uptime SLA.

  • Scale on demand with fixed-rate hourly billing, no overprovisioning, and no upfront costs.

  • Support a broad range of remote workers with flexible desktop configurations.

Pricing

Pricing across the Amazon WorkSpaces Family services is designed to be flexible and cost-effective, allowing you to pay for the resources you need without over provisioning.

WorkSpaces allows you to pay for usage based on monthly subscriptions or hourly meters. With the monthly subscription option, you pay a fixed monthly fee per virtual desktop for unlimited usage during the month. Unlimited usage pricing is ideal for workers who use the service as their primary desktop.

You can check the details for pricing on this link

#2 Alternative

About Prianto's Remote Desktop Solution

The ready-to-use and out-of-the-box solution (all opensouce components) ensures that your employees can access any existing (!) Windows devices (physical PCs, Windows Terminal Servers (RDSH), any VMs,…) located in the corporate network from their homes.

We have assembled a fully integrated solution including SSL terminated reverse proxy, which can be integrated into a corporate network including multi-factor authentication in a few minutes.

We have designed this "first-aid kit", especially for small and medium-sized companies. It can help them have a cheap solution for their employees to work from home. The solution works exclusively with components from the open-source world.

Pricing

There are no license fees for the software. The solution works exclusively with components from the open source world.

#3 Alternative

About V2 Cloud

V2 Cloud makes it incredibly easy to deploy cloud-hosted virtual Windows desktops in less than 10 clicks. Our virtual cloud desktop service is cost-efficient, fast, and scalable. Unlike other popular offerings, V2 Cloud does not require in-depth training or certifications to deploy cloud desktops.

Intuitive Management Console

  • The Dashboard is your management console to deploy and manage your Cloud desktop infrastructure. A single panel where you have access to cloud resources, user controls, billing, security setting, backups and more. The Dashboard also give you full administrator access to all your virtual machines and lets you install any application you need. No in-depth training or certifications required.

Multi-User Desktops

  • Multi-user Desktops are based on Windows Server OS and can hold up to 250 users on each virtual machine. All users have their own desktop and private folders but are part of the same virtual machine with access to private and shared folders. Install your apps once and all users will have access.

Single-User Desktops

  • Single-User desktops are useful for installing applications that cannot be installed on a server instance and require a Windows 10 desktop OS. Windows 10 desktops are licensed with your Microsoft 365 subscription and are directly connected to your AzureAD account (included with your Office 365 or Microsoft 365 subscription).

Published Applications

  • Published applications let you publish any Windows program to an end-user in their browser without giving access to a full desktop. Only the selected program is displayed in the browser making it a clever way to deliver an on-prem application as a web app.

Web and Mobile App

  • Our intuitive web app provides user access to their Cloud desktop instantly on the go with a web browser over secure SSL connection. The web application has several convenience features such as screen sharing, printing, files transfers and seamless transition to the desktop app. You can also download our mobile app available for iOS and Android to access the Cloud desktop on your smartphone or tablet.

Desktop App

  • Our desktop app gives you a secured, high-performance RDP access. The desktop app supports multi-monitor, cameras, microphone, printers and local folders redirection. You can download our desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux PCs.

Raspberry Pi App

  • Our RPi app lets you turn any Raspberry Pi 4 into a low-cost, high-performance zero client. The app supports dual monitor, cameras, microphones and printers redirection for a complete desktop replacement solution. You can download the RPi image and load it to the SD card for the Raspberry Pi 4.

Malware Protection

  • Our Business plan comes with managed Malwarebytes Pro antivirus with real-time protection and nightly scans. The business plan also includes daily snapshots with offline retention for a complete ransomware protection.

Daily Backups

  • Our business plan comes with daily snapshots of your virtual machines. You can restore individual files if you mistakenly delete it or you can revert the whole virtual machine in case of a disaster.

MFA and SSO

  • You can enforce Multi-factor authentication for your users for added security. We also integrate with your preferred SSO provider such as Azure SSO, OneLogin, Okta, V-KEY or any other SAML compatible SSO provider.

IPsec VPNs

  • If you need to connect to onsite resources such as an on-prem domain controller or network printers, we create a site-to-site VPN connection between your office and our Cloud.

Built-In Live Support

  • All our apps come with built-in live help chat directly connected to our fanatical technical support team. We are also available over email and phone if needed. See our contact section for our working hours.

Active Directory Integration

  • We can connect to your on-prem Windows Active Directory or to other Cloud based directories such as Azure AD and JumpCloud.

Storage Buckets Option

  • Besides storing your data with limited storage in the cloud computer’s disk, you are able to create Storage Buckets to store any type of data content and attach the buckets to your cloud computers with unlimited storage capacity. It is a high-performance storage option that offers reliable and cost-efficient data durability. The storage bucket is very suitable for data storage with no particular performance requirements, and it has features of S3 compatibility and triple-replication data protection.

Extended Backups Retention

  • Data security is fundamental for any business, and V2 Cloud is always focusing on security improvements for our users. Usually, our business plan comes with 7 days of backups retention but you can extend this to 14 days or 21 days retention. It means we will keep your daily snapshots longer time, and you can restore individual files and even whole virtual machines in case of a disaster.

Pricing

There are two types of plans available: Individual Desktops and Team Desktops.

Individual Desktops: Single-user virtual machines based on Windows 10 desktop. This type of plan requires you to bring your own license of Windows. Good for apps not compatible with Windows Server.

Team Desktops: Multi-user virtual machines based on Windows Server. Certain versions of Office 365 are not compatible. Good for general purpose computing.

Each of the pricing plans are further divided into Basic or Business plans.

You can check further details for pricing at this link

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