Amazon WorkSpaces vs. Red Hat Virtualization

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon WorkSpaces
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed, secure cloud desktop service. Amazon WorkSpaces removes the complexity in managing hardware inventory, OS versions and patches, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
$21
per month
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)
Score 6.1 out of 10
N/A
Red Hat Virtualization (formerly Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, broadly known as RHEV) is an enterprise level server and desktop virtualization solution. Red Hat Virtualization also contains the functionality of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktop in later editions of the platform.
$999
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Pricing
Amazon WorkSpacesRed Hat Virtualization
Editions & Modules
Starting Price
$21.00
per month
Maximum Price
$140.00
per month
Standard
$999.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Premium
$1,499.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon WorkSpacesRed Hat Virtualization (RHV)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Amazon WorkSpacesRed Hat Virtualization
Server Virtualization
Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
Amazon WorkSpaces
-
Ratings
Red Hat Virtualization
7.7
Ratings
6% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Management console00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon WorkSpacesRed Hat Virtualization
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(0 ratings)
6.6
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon WorkSpacesRed Hat Virtualization
Likelihood to Recommend
For our use case, we found Amazon WorkSpaces well suited to remote work and other "work from home" and "work on the road" situations where the end user did not need to consume HD media (notably 4K) and did not need to produce any multimedia (audio, video, etc), but rather needed to perform more typical tasks such as web-browsing our corporate intranet and internal online apps, accessing files and using them through office productivity suites (Office - both online and desktop, and LibreOffice are under testing), etc.
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Red Hat Virtualization is suitable for small implementation and hosting VMs. However, when you start asking for additional features or enhancements, the engineering team is not the flexible as other engineering teams in Red Hat. It is very likely they will not accept adding features or in the best case. They wouldn't commit to a plan when it is possible to be available.
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Pros
  • It gives us a virtual desktop machine which is completely configurable.
  • We can launch and terminate those machines as per our requirements
  • It eliminates software conflicts as we get clean system every time on launch
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  • RHV issues/bugs can be reported via Bugzilla to RH support. The service is great and typically responds soon.
  • Red Hat distribution integration is seamless as it is integrated into the kernel.
  • OpenStack support enables more customized VM templates and network configuration control.
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Cons
  • Restarting workspaces takes lot of time
  • MFA can be done only via email. Text or dedicated app would be a great choice.
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  • Documentation of RHEV needs more improvement.
  • RHEV GUI needs a lot of improvements in some versions of RHEV, GUI will not work properly (shows incorrect details of VM ).
  • Need fast rollout of patch releases.
  • Need good linux Knowledge to manage the RHEVM.
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Usability
For its Primary purpose in our organization, providing developers and testers a clean, isolated and configurable environments which saves hours. The usability is nearly perfect. Usability is only suffering when user is into more intensive task like any kind of graphic works. At that time user is not experiencing the smoothness like a local machine
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Support Rating
AWS support in general is pretty good, and WorkSpaces is no exception. We haven't had too much need for support but on the occasion we have, they've been quick to respond and helpful. Our issues have been resolved rapidly.
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Alternatives Considered
WorkSpaces (VDI) is a much more robust solution that competitor offerings when considering scalability and security. Amazon WorkSpaces has a substantial free tier to explore if this is the right solution for your project without purchasing other solutions. Considering this, AWS is a great solution to explore Virtual Desktop experiences and workstations for any growing remote business.
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Red Hat Virtualization is the best enterprise-level virtualization software for an organization that needs cost-effective and flexible solutions for its environment. We can easily integrate RHEV with other Red Hat software like OpenStack...etc. RHEV is highly customizable software, which helps us to customize our environment. Since RHEV is an open-source tool, we can install it on any hardware. There is no proprietary dependency.
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Return on Investment
  • Having a linux VM seems positive due to the security of the OS
  • The Linux OS version sometimes is basic and requires extra apps to be installed
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  • It has had an extremely positive impact on my overall business and has allowed me to utilize and leverage it as an offering to my clients.
  • It's an extremely solid, robust, and reliable product built off of KVM Virtualization technology.
  • Less expensive solution than VMware and includes more features!
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