title: Amazon AWS EC2 or WorkSpaces for 5 users?
body: <p>I remotely manage a small company's network half-way around the world. They have 5 local users connecting to their Windows server sessions with RDP to a physical in-house Windows Server, and they want to migrate to cloud computing.</p>
  
  <p>I'm not sure WorkSpaces is the right solution, or if I should just stand up 5 EC2 instances one for each user. But individual instances whether WorkSpaces or EC2 defeats the advantage of a single machine to install applications that are immediately available to all users who connect to their sessions by RDP.</p>
  
  <p>Windows RDS (Terminal Services) licensing requires a dedicated instance on AWS which is very expensive, otherwise I would do that. Windows RDS licensing is not an option for on-demand or reserved EC2 instances.</p>
  
  <p>If you've been down this road before, please let me know what you recommend.</p>