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I didn't get this when it was first announced and don't get it now. $600/y will get you your own hardware and software licenses. Access with RDC or VNC. Hardwar

• bdunbar 13y ago
  I have a use case. It's 'niche' but that's where I have been working for almost a year. In the legal field there are a scatload of organizations that process data. Data is moved by FTP or SFTP. It's organized by case and/or client. The directories can hold hundreds - or thousands - of files, compressed file sizes nearly 500mb are not uncommon. To _manage_ this mess o' bytes users are given 'a windows server', login by RDP. The server has (the ones I've seen) a connection via ISCSI to a 'drive' that is (tada) the FTP repository. Move, delete, rename using Windows Explorer. The several that I've seen are vmware instances. Living - I guess - on a dedicated vmware cluster. This is _made_ for uses like that. The _heck_ with paying for, and maintaining, an expensive machine. Boot up a workspace, create the user. Bill them cost. When you're done, shut it down. This is good because we, ourselves, are aiming to be a data processing org (in part) but we have to do it better and cheaper. Which we can, with workspace. Assuming, of course, that we can have some control over what is installed, and connections to our already existing ebs volumes.