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AWS Training and Certification [EOL] vs Azure Lab Services comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft are both solutions in the Virtual IT Labs category. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.
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AWS Training and Certificat...
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9.0
Number of Reviews
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Azure Lab Services
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8.6
Number of Reviews
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Featured Reviews

RN
Aug 22, 2022
Cost-effective and simple to use, full support that is excellent
We use AWS for a large corporate client, currently migrating applications to AWS. Everything was within the company's data-center but it was becoming too costly to maintain and retain staff. We have had a few costly downtimes, which is always a panic and requires calling in staff to work through…
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Anthony Alvarico - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 19, 2023
The solution is scalable, stable, and easy to deploy
I give the solution a nine out of ten. Azure Virtual Desktop tends to be a problem for us, but Azure Lab Services is pretty straightforward. The educational institution we deal with has a small IT department, with only a few people, including the director and their networking people, and the firewall team. I have not met all of their administrators, so I can't provide an exact number of administrators. I don't know if other IT people are delegated the permission or role. But for the ones we implemented, I deal with less than five people. This solution is a competitor of all the VDIs out there right now. The solution's target audience is entities such as academia and educational institutions that need to provide virtual machines with customized templates. We've just been given a project to use a new product that we're not sure how new it is. We know about it and its inception, but don't know when it was first created. We've never had a customer that actually needed it before, but it does come in handy when we do Azure Virtual Desktop implementations. For those customers that want more control over their environment, we show them how to create a template and manage the Azure Labs for them. There's a delegation type of feature that's very hard to do with Azure Virtual Desktop implementations until we have to do some administrative components in order to give that type of implementation with actual labs.
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Pros

"The most valuable features are the number of options available and the price."
"There are a lot of valuable features. Based on what I am focused on, the security aspect or layer and the analytics services are the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the professor's administrative segregation of permission which is already in place."
 

Cons

"Full hands-on labs for different environments like Angular would be really good."
"It should have support for multiple languages, and it should be available in different languages. Although this solution has a translation, sometimes when you go deep, you will find some of the expressions in English."
"The solution can be improved by adding additional languages for the UI in order to support international students."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"AWS has a good pricing calculator and the training on their site will assist in using it."
"When comparing what the customers have now to what we offer, they have Horizon and VMware Horizon VDI. Azure Virtual Desktop is less expensive than those two options."
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What do you like most about Azure Lab Services?
The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the professor's administrative segregation of permission which is already in place.
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What needs improvement with Azure Lab Services?
The solution can be improved by adding additional languages for the UI in order to support international students.
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What is your primary use case for Azure Lab Services?
Before we implemented Azure Labs, professors at the school were using on-premises labs. However, with the pandemic and students working remotely, it became difficult for them to use the labs. To so...
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Overview

Learn from AWS Experts
Build your cloud skills with instruction from an accredited AWS expert.

Learn at your own pace
Expand your cloud skills with self-paced digital training.

Get AWS Certified
Demonstrate your AWS expertise and advance your career.

Easily set up and provide on-demand access to preconfigured virtual machines (VMs) to support your scenarios. Teach a class, train professionals, run a hackathon or a hands-on lab, and more. Simply define your needs and the service will roll the lab out to your audience. Users access all their lab VMs from a single place.

 

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IBM, Accenture Digital, CloudCheckr, Classmethod, Slalom Consulting, LLC
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