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Cloud Desktop Pricing Index: $/CCU Across AVD, Windows 365 and WorkSpaces
Cloud desktop pricing pages are not designed to be compared. This is a normalised $/CCU index for Q4 2026, built from published list prices: the Azure retail prices API, Microsoft's Windows 365 list, and the AWS WorkSpaces price list. Same hours and stated storage for every offering, with density exposed as a variable rather than buried in a default.
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