Ask HN: Ubuntu desktop virtualizion service?

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I run 2 VMs: one to access sensitive accounts, and another to access risky/questionable sites.

Every month, I reset the images to their original snapshots to get rid of any vulnerabilities.

Is there a cloud service that will let me spawn new desktops that I can remotely connect to, instead of having to run VMs on my own machine?

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You can do it yourself with AWS, Azure, etc. There are many ways to set it up, see

https://www.bing.com/search?q=ubuntu+remote+desktop+aws

It is affordable so long as (1) you turn the machine off when you are not using it, and (2) you don't allocate a huge amount of storage. It is easy to attach a 500GB volume but you pay for that even when the server is shut down; the cost for 10GB of storage is almost nothing in comparison.

Hey thanks, I tried searching but couldn't put the right words together. This is helpful.

https://www.paperspace.com/

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