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I use a personal AWS Workspace as my personal machine, that I can access from my work laptop. It's handy, although I wish the cost was lower. Does anyone have a better managed VDI suggestion?

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I bought a used R710 server for $200 and put it in the basement. I can run a handful of Win10 or Linux VMs on it at the same time and remote desktop into each of them. Just used wired ethernet if you can for speed and keeping the wifi quiet.

It's worth calculating power usage for this kind of thing. It's often a false economy if you don't use the compute.

Fair point. The server draws 185W @ idle and at my power cost it's about $15/month to run. Amortize the server hardware too and it's maybe $25/month

The server has 24 cores, 32GB/1TB, and I can't see what an equivalent AWS instance would cost monthly. But it's easily more than $25. The PowerPro (8vCPU 32/175) is $148 monthly.

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