Azure Virtual Desktop

For most Dutch SMEs three things matter more than global scale: • A fixed invoice — no hourly consumption that moves with how busy you are, but one amount per employee you know in advance. • Files in the Netherlands — your desktop, documents and industry software run on our servers. Microsoft orchestrates the connection and the security, but does not see the content. • A team that knows your environment — the same people who manage the servers answer the phone. And you give up nothing: sign-in with your Microsoft 365 account, Teams that works like on a regular PC, Defender on every workplace and central updates — it is all included. Every company gets its own environment: own servers, own domain, nothing shared.

With us: €38 per user per month for the workplace, plus Microsoft 365 Business Premium (€19.56). All-in €57.56, cancel monthly, no consumption costs. Already have Business Premium? Then only the €38. In Azure: you pay per hour for VMs, storage and network, plus licences. Flexible, but less predictable. We keep it manageable with auto-scaling (servers off outside office hours), reserved instances and consumption monitoring. Want both calculated for your situation? Contact us — we make a comparison based on your number of users and working hours. In Azure you pay per item. This is what the bill consists of, next to our fixed price:

Cost item	AVD in Azure	AVD with us (Online Workspace)
Compute	per hour per session host, for as long as the server is running	included in €38 per user
Storage	per GB per month, separately for disks, profiles and files	included, unlimited storage
Network	outbound data traffic per GB, plus the connections you need	included
Backup	per GB per month, depending on the retention you choose	included, daily in our second data centre
Licences	Microsoft 365 Business Premium per user (€19.56)	Microsoft 365 Business Premium per user (€19.56)
Management and monitoring	separate: hourly or as a fixed management agreement	included
What you pay per month	varies with consumption and working hours	€57.56 per user, all in

Microsoft's rates are not in this table: they differ per region, per server type and per agreement you have with Microsoft. The structure is fixed and you can work it out. In what does Azure Virtual Desktop cost we calculate it for a company of 25 users: which assumptions you need, and what the same company pays on the Online Workspace. Want it in writing for your own environment? Request an Azure cost scan. This applies to every Online Workspace we deliver from 1 September 2026.

If you are looking for AVD hosting in the Netherlands, this is what you get with us. The session hosts sit in our own data centres in Eindhoven and Den Bosch, not in a Microsoft region. Your desktop, your files, your applications and your backups therefore stay in the Netherlands. Sign-in, licences and security policy run through your own Microsoft 365 environment, within Microsoft's European data boundary. Every company gets its own environment with its own servers and its own domain. Nothing shared. We are ISO 27001 certified and in line with NEN 7510, so you can show how it is arranged in an audit or a tender; the details are on certification. Want to know per component where it sits? The sovereign cloud workspace explains it line by line. The workspace itself you buy on online workspace.