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by ianhawes 3687 days ago
Not sure where you saw that you need an Enterprise AWS subscription. I didn't.

I tried Workspaces for a month and it was decent. There are a few things it does better than RDP (especially on OS X). I did, however, switch to running Windows Server 2012 R2 on Azure instead, though that was because it was effectively free thanks to BizSpark.
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kfullert 3687 days ago
Ah, I was getting a loop saying "You need to subscribe to Workspaces" which would then take me to choosing a subscription which after selecting the Basic (free) one would take me back to saying "You need to subscribe to Workspaces" but it _appears_ to be fixed now :)
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btown 3687 days ago
Any noticeable latency differences between RDP to Azure and AWS Workspaces? I've noticed that the modern.ie free instances, for example, do have a noticeable amount of lag.
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ianhawes 3687 days ago
I have almost no latency issues with RDP in Azure. I can watch a YouTube video with no major latency. Workspaces wasn't terrible in that regard but definitely not as smooth.

The Azure machine is a bit beefier than Workspaces, so that probably factors into it.

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