Azure Lab Services

As a company specialized in software consultancy services, stay updated in new technologies is always required. I have had the possibility to follow certain azure certifications thanks to my current job and the Azure Lab Services has been present in my material to study.

I can say it has been really helpful to jump from theory to practice in a safe environment without compromising my personal information or wasting free resource at first sign in

- It is great to train a large team or individual contributors
- It can be used to follow anyone training without worrying about speed of learning
- To test certain scenarios and proof of concept

Azure Lab Services is the solution to how do you provide higher power workloads to users without committing to high power devices that need to also support business functions such as email and other business level power workloads compared to running Adobe or Autodesk. Our organization needs to support a flexible number of users at a time and have run up against physical numbers of devices versus users. Azure Labs allows up to spin up another set of machines in moments if needed.

Azure Lab Services is incredibly beneficial to our school board as a replacement for high-end graphics workstations needed for courses utilizing 3d graphics - the Autodesk and Adobe suites of products. The devices have a cost that is considerably higher than our line of business devices. These high-end devices are designated only for use with those courses meaning that the devices remained underutilized. Azure Lab Services isn't a good replacement for regular workloads as the overhead for management is considerable compared to regular devices.