AWS VPN's pricing is hard to understand, so I built a calculator

VPN
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It’s a mix, some leveraging purely Office 365 services, AzureAD for identity, Sharepoint for file storage, Teams for phones, etc.

Others switched from full endpoints to thin clients in the office.

Others switched to BYOD and work from home, no office setting at all.

The only client we have that has a VM in the cloud is using that as a clone of an on-prem quickbooks server, it’s cheaper to host it in AWS than it is to run it on-prem with full image level backups and DR capability. They are moving to quickbooks online soon so that will be the last VM/Physical server client that I manage.

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100%, and when you tell them, it is a big mystery of how did that happen! So and So knows what they are doing and would never set something up insecure! It must be AWS’s fault…they changed something…

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Yep, I’m on the other side of the SaaS these days, so I probably shouldn’t complain. I understand the SOHO market never wanting to look at a server, but I like the idea of being able to actually own my data and infrastructure - it’s probably why I’ve tended more towards the open source world.