Every new contractor costs you a laptop, two weeks, and a coin flip on whether you get it back.

Cloud Life builds cloud desktops on AWS, so a new person is working the same day, on whatever device they already own, with nothing to ship and nothing to recover.

We're an AWS Advanced Tier Partner with the Digital Workplace Competency. We've built this for staffing agencies, global consumer brands, school districts, law firms, and hospitals.

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Trusted by brands you know, built on AWS

The problem was never the hiring.
It was the hardware.

Every hire means procurement, shipping, and a device you may never get back. With WorkSpaces the desktop lives in AWS, so there is nothing to ship and nothing to recover.

Contractor onboarding, last quarter

Design contractor

Manila · 6-month engagement

Never returned

Laptop shipped day 3Productive day 11

Support contractor

Bogotá · 90-day engagement

Returned, 7 weeks late

Laptop shipped day 2Productive day 9

Seasonal staff ×40

Three states · 11-week peak

6 unaccounted

Imaged over 2 weeksRetrieval ongoing

Same three, on WorkSpaces

Their own devices · your Active Directory

Nothing to recover

Access granted day 0Productive day 0Offboarded in seconds

Three companies that stopped buying hardware

Contractors without machines, a dispersed workforce, and a VMware estate on a lease clock. Same fix in three different situations.

TOMS

Global consumer brand · Global contractors

Contractors working on day one, with nothing shipped out

Shipping hardware to contractors abroad meant delays, lost inventory, and kit that never came back. We deployed WorkSpaces against the Active Directory TOMS already ran.

Their Global Infrastructure Manager credited our "proactive approach and in-depth knowledge of AWS services."

Chris Cournoyer, Global Infrastructure Manager, TOMS

40%Operational efficiency improvement

25%Cost reduction

Culinary Staffing

2,000+ employee foodservice staffing agency

A 2,000-person dispersed workforce, without the laptops

Buying and supporting laptops for a constantly rotating workforce drained capital and IT time. We deployed WorkSpaces across two Availability Zones, linked by VPN.

Their COO called it "a game-changer for our bottom line and IT operations."

Jessica Seastead, Chief Operating Officer, Culinary Staffing

25%Hardware cost reduction

60%Decrease in IT hardware workload

American Equity

NYSE-listed insurer · 400 simultaneous sessions

A VMware Horizon estate moved before the lease ran out

VMware Horizon could not scale to 400 sessions and the data centre lease was ending. We replaced it with WorkSpaces, sized per user group, ahead of the deadline.

Four hundred simultaneous sessions moved off VMware Horizon with no user-visible change.

From the American Equity case study

35%Lower data centre operating cost

40%Better VDI performance

We've also delivered End User Computing across education, financial services, legal, engineering, energy, healthcare, and automotive.

Four reasons companies call us

Most arrive with one of these. A few have all four and have been putting it off for a year.

People you can't hand a laptop to

Contractors, seasonal staff, offshore teams, agency placements. They get a working desktop the day they start, wherever they are, and it disappears when the engagement ends.

No procurement, no shipping, no retrieval

Personal devices, without losing control

People work from their own machines while the environment and the data stay in AWS. A lost laptop is a lost window. Access is revoked centrally the moment someone leaves.

Easier to defend in an audit than a fleet of endpoints

One heavy application, anywhere

Stream a single application to any device instead of specifying a machine that can run it locally. Engineering, analysis, and legacy Windows software delivered to whatever's in front of the user.

Amazon AppStream 2.0

Desktops that scale like your headcount

Spin up for a seasonal peak, spin down after. Pay by use rather than buying for the busiest month of the year and storing hardware for the other eleven.

Bundle and running-mode matched to real usage

Whether this is worth your time

Being straight about the fit costs us a few calls and saves everyone a wasted quarter.

Worth a conversation

Enough people that provisioning and recovering machines is a recurring cost
A specific delivery problem: contractors, distributed staff, BYOD, an aging fleet, or specialized software
An existing directory service the environment has to integrate with
An IT team that's small relative to the number of people it supports
A reason to move on a timeline: a deadline, a renewal, a hiring ramp, or an expansion
Already on AWS, or open to it
United States or Canada

Probably not us

You want device management, helpdesk, or general IT support
Graphics-heavy creative or engineering workstations. That's our GPU virtual desktops offer, and it's a different build
Committed to Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows 365 with no interest in evaluating alternatives
A mature in-house VDI team with no renewal or deadline pressure
No budget cycle inside the next twelve months

Twenty minutes, and you'll know if this fits

A scoping conversation with an engineer who has built these, not a discovery call with a salesperson. Here's exactly what happens on it:

How many people, and what they need to reach
What your directory and network look like today
Whether WorkSpaces, AppStream, or both fits, and why
The rough shape of the build, and what would make it go wrong
Whether you're better off doing it yourself, which we'll say if it's true

Not ready for a call? Email sales@cloudlife.io and we'll answer in writing.

20 minutes · with an engineer

Pick a time that works

Open calendar, real availability this week. Bring a rough headcount if you have one; it's the first thing we'll ask.

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Already in a WorkSpaces trial that's gone quiet?

Trials stall in the same three places, every time. If you've got an environment up and it isn't going anywhere, that's a shorter conversation than starting cold. Most of the work is unblocking what's already there.

Active Directory integrationBundle sizingCost creeping up, not down

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Cloud Life Consulting · AWS Advanced Tier Partner · Digital Workplace Competency · AI Competency

The problem was never the hiring. It was the hardware.