Wow. These two announcements from Amazon today have been really interesting. I work at a community college and we're constantly investigating VDI and vApp sol

Wow. These two announcements from Amazon today have been really interesting. I work at a community college and we're constantly investigating VDI and vApp solutions. With the heavy push towards a more cloud-ready infrastructure, it'll be interesting to see how our upper management approaches this platform. A lot of our initial hardware costs have to deal with planning for spikes in usage. At any given time we may only see 10% use -- but come the end of the semester -- that could very well jump to 10x our average load. And we have to have the hardware allocated for that. It's a balancing act between how much we can expect and how much we can feasibly budget. I can see this being a huge win for education. We have a department that oversees all IT related tasks. They also chip in occasionally to help establish foundations for best practices and unite all the community colleges on single platforms (email, learning management software, internet services, etc.). This might be right up their alley.