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Amazon Appstream vs Horizon Cloud Service comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Scalability Issues

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Sentiment score
7.0
Horizon Cloud Service offers scalable solutions for organizations, but may face limitations with certain cloud products like AWS.
 

Valuable Features

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Horizon Cloud Service is praised for advanced management, accessibility, flexibility, cost efficiency, and stability post-VMware's Broadcom acquisition.
 

Stability Issues

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7.1
Horizon Cloud Service is highly stable, reliable, and well-regarded, with occasional VM performance issues but positive scalability feedback.
 

Room For Improvement

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Sentiment score
3.9
Horizon Cloud Service has high costs, integration issues, complexity, and bugs, needing infrastructure improvements and simplified login.
 

Customer Service

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Horizon Cloud Service receives mixed reviews on support quality, with praise for skill but concerns over response times.
 

Setup Cost

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Enterprise users have mixed opinions on Horizon Cloud Service pricing, noting high costs and emphasizing potential hidden expenses.
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Appstream
Ranking in Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
3rd
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Horizon Cloud Service
Ranking in Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) (10th)
 

Featured Reviews

RH
Offers good performance, efficiency, and network
There is also a way in the tool for retaining customers' favorites, but it is not available natively. When you log in to your desktop, on the desktop or laptop that you are working on, you have your favorites, you have your document repository, like your documents, your personal documents that you have on your computer. I saw that there was no native way of retaining those in a non-persistent desktop. The end-user has to perform dual authentication. One is for AWS authentication, and the other used to be for Active Directory, so it is a little problematic for the end users, as it is a double work for them. I don't know if the tool has lately dealt with the area of dual authentication or not.
Vaisakh Natesh M - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to use, stable, and scalable
VMware Horizon Cloud is easy to use and the full development cloud is very good. The main features of VMware are included. It's a cloud-based virtual desktop infrastructure software that allows you to permit the virtual desktops and applications to any device from the single unified management control. These are managed from the dedicated remote session desktop. It is a multiple cloud deployment that provides flexibility. You can choose cloud capacity management by VMware or infrastructure management with Microsoft Azure. Advanced user configuration management through dynamic environment management is available. There are many self-serve options.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon Appstream?
There is also a way in the tool for retaining customers' favorites, but it is not available natively. When you log in to your desktop, on the desktop or laptop that you are working on, you have you...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Appstream?
I personally don't use the tool. I am not a consumer of it. I basically designed it. I work for an IT company and have designed and implemented Amazon Appstream and Workspace in many organizations....
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Horizon Cloud?
Initially, the product is cheap, but it starts to get expensive when users try to scale out. Though I find Citrix to be an expensive product compared to VMware Horizon Cloud because of all the feat...
What needs improvement with VMware Horizon Cloud?
VMware Horizon Cloud's VDI stacks are being sold off. Considering VMware Horizon Cloud's VDI stacks complexity, even before its sell out, I feel Citrix can do a couple of pieces of infrastructure t...
 

Also Known As

Amazon Appstream 2.0, Appstream, Appstream 2.0
VMware Horizon Cloud, VMware Horizon DaaS
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

SolidWorks, EVARI, MathWorks, AVENA, Vanguard, Macquarie University
Marriott, Sprint
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