ExpertWe built the same 200-desktop image on ten VDI and DaaS platforms, then hammered them over a throttled 200ms link to see which ones stayed usable. The thing that reshuffled the ranking was not raw speed. It was licensing and protocol behavior when the network got ugly.
After three months of pointing ten cloud cost platforms at a deliberately messy multi-cloud lab, the finding our team kept returning to was that the tools are not the problem. The dashboards are fine. The tagging hygiene of the company sitting underneath them is what decides whether any of this expensive software works at all.
The IaaS bill is the one founders read last and regret first. Pick the wrong provider and the platform you chose for speed quietly turns into the line item slowing every quarterly review.