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Azure Lab Services

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What is Azure Lab Services?

Microsoft's Azure Lab Services provides easily set up on-demand access to preconfigured virtual machines (VMs) to support learning and practice scenarios, to teach a class, train professionals, run a hackathon or a hands-on lab, and more.

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A great tool for learning for individual contributors or teams

Incentivized
Gerardo Mares Solano
Software Engineer in Information Technology at Digital OnUs (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Pros

  • Avoid using personal info and wasting personal resources
  • Really fast setup to follow exercises in a safe environment
  • Clean the environment for future uses

Cons

  • Sometimes it have problems loading but it's not a big deal

Most Important Features

  • Avoiding use of personal environment

Return on Investment

  • no corporative accounts are required
  • no personal accounts are required
  • Better real practice for everyone

Azure Lab Services is the speediest system you'll ever build!

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • 3d Graphics powered machines
  • Ease of deployment
  • Ease of Access
  • Ease of Management

Cons

  • Better organization integration
  • improve integration with MECM/System Center/Intune
  • Improve HTML5 interface

Most Important Features

  • 3d Enabled
  • Ease of Deployment
  • Software Licencing

Return on Investment

  • Reduced Capital Costs for 3d Workloads
  • Ability to transition to Hybrid or Learn@Home and provide curriculum resources
  • HTML FrontEnd provides ease of use from any HTML5 device

Alternatives Considered

Azure Windows Virtual Desktop

Other Software Used

Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune + SCCM), Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP), Microsoft System Center