Choosing a cloud desktop provider should not require a finance degree, a three-month vendor evaluation, or the resigned acceptance that you are about to overpay for something that should be straightforward. You need a Windows desktop in the cloud, your team needs to access it from anywhere, and the whole thing needs to not fall over when two people open QuickBooks at the same time.
We built EEZYCLOUD because every option on the market either costs too much, does too little, or treats small businesses like an afterthought squeezed between enterprise deals. Here is how we stack up against the names you are probably comparing us to, and why our customers stay once they switch.
Let us start with the number that matters most. EEZYCLOUD runs on a Bring Your Own License model at $58.30 per user per month. That is hosting only. You own your software licenses, and we do not mark them up, bundle them into opaque packages, or sneak in per-application surcharges that double your bill.
Right Networks charges between $85 and $150 per user per month depending on which applications you need hosted, and their pricing page requires a sales call to even see numbers. Summit Hosting starts around $90 per user per month for their base plan and scales up from there. Amazon WorkSpaces charges $35 per month for a basic bundle that gives you 2 vCPUs and 4 GB of RAM, which is roughly enough to run Notepad comfortably, and their Performance bundle hits $75 before you add persistent storage. Citrix DaaS does not even publish pricing because they assume if you have to ask, you cannot afford it. Spoiler: you probably cannot. Enterprise Citrix deployments routinely run $150 to $300 per seat per month when you include licensing, infrastructure, and management overhead.
Our $58.30 is not a teaser rate. It is a 10 percent markup on our $53 base infrastructure cost, and we publish it because we are not embarrassed by our margins. You get a full Windows desktop environment with the compute and storage to actually run business applications. No bait-and-switch, no surprise invoices, no annual contract traps.
Every EEZYCLOUD desktop runs on Microsoft Azure. Not a shared hosting provider running VMware in a closet. Not a reseller slapping a logo on someone else’s data center. Azure, with the same infrastructure that Fortune 500 companies use, except you are paying small business prices.
This matters because Azure gives you geographic redundancy, automated backups, encryption at rest and in transit, and a compliance portfolio that includes SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and FedRAMP. When your accountant asks about data security and you say “Azure,” the conversation is over.
Right Networks runs their own data centers, which is fine until you realize that their compliance certifications are self-reported and their redundancy is limited to their own facilities. Summit Hosting uses a mix of providers depending on the plan. Amazon WorkSpaces runs on AWS, which matches Azure on compliance but comes with the complexity tax of configuring security groups, VPCs, and IAM policies yourself. Citrix DaaS can run on any cloud, which sounds flexible until you realize that means you are also responsible for securing whatever cloud you choose.
With EEZYCLOUD, security is not a configuration exercise. It is built into the service. Multi-factor authentication, encrypted connections, immutable audit logs, and access reviews are standard. You do not need a cloud architect on staff to keep your desktops secure.
Let us be honest about why most people look at cloud desktops in the first place: QuickBooks. Specifically, QuickBooks Desktop, because the online version still cannot do everything the desktop version can, and your accountant knows it.
EEZYCLOUD hosts QuickBooks Desktop in a multi-user environment where your team can access the same company file simultaneously without the file corruption issues that plague local network installations. We have tuned our server configurations specifically for QuickBooks workloads, which means your company file opens in seconds, not the two-minute staring contest you get when QuickBooks decides to verify data integrity across a VPN connection.
Right Networks and Summit Hosting both offer QuickBooks hosting as their primary selling point, and to their credit, they do it well. But their pricing bundles QuickBooks into the hosting cost, which means you are paying a premium for their license resale margin. If you already own QuickBooks licenses, you are paying twice. With EEZYCLOUD, bring your existing licenses and pay only for the hosting.
Amazon WorkSpaces can technically host QuickBooks, but Amazon provides zero QuickBooks-specific optimization, no multi-user file configuration assistance, and no one to call when QuickBooks decides to throw error H202 at 4:47 PM on a Friday during tax season. You are on your own.
Cloud desktops are only useful if your whole team can use them without tripping over each other. EEZYCLOUD supports true multi-user concurrent access, meaning your bookkeeper, your office manager, and your accountant can all be working in the same environment simultaneously without performance degradation or file locking conflicts.
Each user gets their own session with dedicated resources. User A printing a report does not slow down User B entering transactions. User C running payroll does not lock out User D reviewing accounts receivable. This sounds obvious, but several competing platforms still allocate shared resources across users, which means your experience degrades as more people log in.
We also handle user provisioning simply. New hire? They get access in minutes, not days. Employee leaves? One click revokes all access across the desktop and every connected EEZY application. No chasing down shared passwords. No discovering six months later that the former bookkeeper still has remote access to your financial data.
The number one reason businesses stay with an inferior cloud desktop provider is the fear of migration. Moving your data, your applications, your configurations, and your users to a new platform sounds like a six-week project with a high probability of something breaking spectacularly.
EEZYCLOUD migrations typically complete in one to three business days. We handle the heavy lifting: copying your data, installing your applications, configuring multi-user access, testing everything, and walking your team through their first login. You do not need to hire a consultant or block out a week on the calendar.
Compare that to Amazon WorkSpaces, where migration means configuring your own images, testing application compatibility, setting up Active Directory integration, and hoping your IT person read the documentation correctly. Or Citrix DaaS, where the implementation partner charges more for the migration than you will pay for the first year of service.
Right Networks and Summit Hosting both offer migration assistance, but their timelines typically run one to two weeks because their onboarding processes are designed for larger deployments. If you are a five-person accounting firm, you do not need an enterprise onboarding workflow. You need someone to move your QuickBooks file and make sure everyone can log in.
Here is where EEZYCLOUD fundamentally differs from every competitor on this list. A cloud desktop from Right Networks or Summit Hosting is just a cloud desktop. A virtual workspace from Amazon or Citrix is just a virtual workspace. They host your applications, full stop.
EEZYCLOUD is the cloud desktop layer of the EEZY ecosystem. That means your cloud desktop connects natively to EEZYCRM for customer management, EEZYCLOCK for employee time tracking, EEZYPAY for payment processing, and EEZYBOOKS for accounting. One login, one identity, one platform where your applications actually talk to each other.
Your team logs into EEZYCLOUD once and has access to every tool they need. Time tracked in EEZYCLOCK flows into payroll automatically. Payments collected through EEZYPAY reconcile against your books without manual entry. Customer records in EEZYCRM are the same records your accounting team sees. No CSV exports, no middleware, no praying that the API connector you set up six months ago has not silently broken.
This is not a future roadmap feature. This is how the platform works today. And it is something that no standalone cloud desktop provider can offer because they are in the business of hosting someone else’s applications, not building an integrated ecosystem.
We are not going to pretend every competitor is terrible. Here is a fair summary:
Right Networks is a solid QuickBooks hosting provider with good uptime and decent support. They have been doing this for years and they do it well. But you are paying a premium for their brand, their pricing is opaque, and you are locked into their license bundles whether you need them or not.
Summit Hosting offers similar QuickBooks hosting with reasonable support. Their pricing is slightly more transparent than Right Networks but still higher than EEZYCLOUD for comparable configurations. They are a good option if you need Sage or Tax software hosting alongside QuickBooks.
Amazon WorkSpaces gives you maximum flexibility and minimum hand-holding. If you have an IT team that is comfortable managing cloud infrastructure, WorkSpaces is a powerful option. If you do not, you are going to spend more on consulting hours than you save on monthly fees.
Citrix DaaS is enterprise-grade technology that is overkill for most SMBs. The capability is there, but the cost, complexity, and implementation timeline are designed for organizations with hundreds of seats and dedicated IT departments.
EEZYCLOUD gives you the security of Azure, the simplicity of a managed service, the transparency of published BYOL pricing, and the integration advantages of a full business platform. For small and mid-sized businesses, that combination does not exist anywhere else.
BYOL means you purchase your software licenses directly from the vendor, such as Intuit for QuickBooks, and we host the applications on our infrastructure. You pay $58.30 per user per month for the cloud desktop environment. Competitors who bundle licensing into their hosting fees typically charge $85 to $150 per user, with a significant portion of that being markup on the software licenses you could buy cheaper yourself.
Significantly safer. EEZYCLOUD runs on Microsoft Azure with encryption at rest and in transit, automated backups, multi-factor authentication, and SOC2-grade access controls. A local server in your office has none of these protections by default, and adding them costs more than the cloud hosting itself. Your biggest data risk is almost always the server under someone’s desk, not a professionally managed cloud environment.
Yes. EEZYCLOUD provides a full Windows desktop experience accessible from any device with a modern browser or remote desktop client. Mac users, iPad users, Chromebook users, and even Linux users all get the same Windows environment. Your QuickBooks Desktop, your Excel files, and your business applications work identically regardless of what device your team uses to connect.
Most migrations complete in one to three business days. We handle transferring your data, installing applications, configuring user access, and testing everything before your team logs in for the first time. Migrations from Right Networks or Summit Hosting are particularly straightforward because the application configurations are similar. Migrations from local servers may take slightly longer depending on the amount of data being transferred.
No sales calls. No custom quotes designed to hide the real price. EEZYCLOUD gives you a full cloud desktop on Azure infrastructure with published pricing and no license markup. Bring your own software and start hosting it properly.
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