Question

A company runs an on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution built on a licensed third-party product deployed across dozens of physical hosts. The desktops require significant ongoing patching, license renewals, and hardware refreshes. Leadership wants to exit the data center within 12 months and eliminate the operational burden of managing VDI infrastructure and its underlying licensing, while giving employees managed, persistent virtual desktops. Which migration approach best meets these goals with the least long-term operational overhead?

Accepted Answer

Repurchase the workload by adopting Amazon WorkSpaces as a managed desktop-as-a-service offering, retiring the third-party VDI product and its underlying infrastructure.

Answer

Use AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) to rehost the VDI broker and desktop hosts as EC2 instances, keeping the existing third-party VDI product and its licenses running in AWS.

Answer

Replatform the VDI hosts onto EC2 with Auto Scaling groups and Amazon FSx, keeping the third-party broker software but offloading storage and scaling to AWS.

Answer

Relocate the entire VDI environment to VMware Cloud on AWS so the existing hypervisor and VDI product continue running with minimal changes.