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Customer with Multiple Users Needs Concurrent Access to Application and Database

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Customer who is on-prem and also working with Azure to host some Windows 10 remote desktop workloads.

They were very interested in Workspaces, especially as it works very well with Active Directory.

They wanted to know if Workspaces has a similar capabilities as Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session - it seems like it allows for concurrent sessions with several users: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/windows-10-multisession-faq

They are looking to be able to host a single MS SQL database as well as a 3rd party application, and access it via remote desktops for each of their 10-15 users.

However, they seemed averse to hosting it on an EC2 or RDS instance and using RDP to access it via WorkSpaces - specifically they "don't want to use a terminal server", and would rather stream the application to their users which then accesses the database (I'm not sure where the database would be, it seems like it would have to be hosted somewhere though).

I was considering AppStream 2.0 to be the best service to turn to for this use case, but was wondering if there is a better solution, possibly more in line with what they are looking at with Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session.

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End User ComputingCompute
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Amazon WorkSpacesAmazon AppStreamWindows Provisioning
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English
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asked 4 years ago956 views
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WorkSpaces are mapped 1:1 to users. Each WorkSpace provides a persistent Desktop to a single user (think of it like your personal cloud laptop in AWS.. your data and user profile persists).

AppStream still has the 1:1 mapping between streaming instances and users. However, it's focused on delivering applications to users and offers some additional features (for example, SAML federation which means users can log in via Okta, Azure AD, etc.). AppStream is also generally a bit more elastic in its pricing since you're paying per hour each streaming instance is running and you can autoscale your fleet capacity (whereas WorkSpaces requires some upfront commitment per user). Another important consideration is that AppStream applications must support a Windows Server environment.

Bottom line: if the customer is looking for a complete Desktop experience, look at WorkSpaces. If they're interested in delivering a single application to users and that application can run on Windows Server, look at AppStream.

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answered 4 years ago

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