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Alethia Tiell

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Aug 5, 2024, 3:12:34 AM8/5/24

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Ihave a windows desktop application (actually it is cross platform) that users can sign up and i store auth data like mail and username and password in a mysql database. Now i want to add a subscription fee on a monthly basis for using the app so that i am thinking of implementing a payment gateway like stripe gateway by which the user pay the subscription fee and i then store in database that the user is subscribed and check that every month . Is this a good approach .Is there any better idea.i want the best approach in this scenario

WorkSpaces Personal provides persistent virtual desktops for users such as developers, knowledge workers, and others who need to install applications, save files and data, and retain settings on their desktops for a personalized desktop experience. Users access the same virtual desktop each time they sign in.

WorkSpaces Pools provides nonpersistent virtual desktops for users such as task workers and contact center employees who may not need to store files, data, and settings on their desktops. With WorkSpaces Pools, users access a fresh virtual desktop each time they sign in. Admins can enable some user settings, bookmarks, and files to be stored in a central storage repository like Amazon S3 or Amazon FSx to be accessed when the user starts a new session. Pools of virtual desktops can be configured to support any number of concurrent users, with customer-defined scaling policies in place to help optimize costs.

WorkSpaces Pools offers hourly billing that combines a low monthly fee with an hourly fee when virtual desktops within the pool are in use. This allows for predictable costs for regular use and efficient billing for variable or sporadic needs.

Pools are charged an hourly usage fee based on the bundle chosen only for the instances connected to users. Virtual desktops within the pool that are not connected to users are charged a stopped-instance fee per hour, depending on the Region.

Windows bundles for WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Pools include a Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Subscriber Access License (SAL) for each user. For WorkSpaces Pools, the license fee is incurred for each user who accesses a virtual desktop during the month in which a virtual desktop session occurs. You will be charged a monthly fee of $4.19 per user for each license. The license is charged in full and is not pro-rated, regardless of how often users access the virtual desktops in the month. WorkSpaces Personal allows you to bring your own licenses for Windows 10 or 11. To learn more about BYOL, visit Bring Your Own Windows Desktop Licenses.

Note: All WorkSpaces pricing includes the use of AWS Directory Service for Simple AD and AD Connector (where available). The use of AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory is not included. Learn more about AWS Directory Service pricing.

The table below includes representative examples of virtual desktop workloads and the recommended bundle(s) for each, applicable to WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Pools. You can change bundles and customize them at any time.

Using the US West (Oregon) Region, you launch virtual desktops for two sets of users. The first group of 100 users requires the monthly subscription option because they will use WorkSpaces as their full-time desktop for general productivity, while the second group of 10 users is better suited to hourly metering as they require occasional access to higher-performance machines.

For the first group of 100 users, you select the Windows Standard Bundle with a root volume of 175 GB and user volume of 100 GB running on Windows with a fixed monthly price of $44. per machine. Monthly spend for this group of users is as follows:

For the second group of 10 part-time users, you select an Ubuntu Linux Power Bundle with a root volume of 80 GB and user volume of 10 GB with hourly metering. This virtual desktop has a fixed price of $7.25 per month + $0.66 per hour. Assuming each of the 10 users spends 5 hours per week on their virtual desktop (20 hours a month), monthly spend for this group of users is calculated as follows:

Using the US West (Oregon) Region, at the beginning of the month, you set up Standard bundle virtual desktops running Windows with an hourly usage price of $0.10. The expected usage pattern is 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday for 100 users during business hours.

For times you might require additional users, you plan a buffer of 10 users (10% of 100 users) to be able to access the pool. Assuming these 10 users do not log in the entire month, the monthly spend is calculated as follows:

Multi-Region Resilience is available on WorkSpaces Personal and provisions standby WorkSpaces in a secondary AWS Region of your choice. Pricing components are similar to regular WorkSpaces, with hourly metering options. You pay a small, fixed monthly fee per virtual desktop to cover infrastructure and storage costs, and a low, flat rate for each hour of usage during the month. Because you only access your standby WorkSpaces when performing maintenance work or when your WorkSpaces are not reachable in your primary Region, they are offered at a lower fixed monthly fee than regular WorkSpaces. You can mix the standby WorkSpaces and regular WorkSpaces within your AWS account.

In your primary Region, US West (Oregon,) you launched WorkSpaces for 100 users who require the monthly subscription option because they will use WorkSpaces as their full-time desktop for general productivity. In your secondary Region, US East (N. Virginia), you created 100 standby WorkSpaces for the same group of users.

In your primary Region, you select the Windows Value Bundle with 1vCPU, 2 GB memory, 80 GB root volume and 10 GB user volume, running on Windows with a fixed price of $25 per machine per month. With the monthly subscription option, users have unlimited access to their WorkSpaces. Monthly spend for this group of users is 100 users x $25 per WorkSpace for a total of $2,500 per month.

In your secondary Region, US East (N. Virginia), you created 100 standby WorkSpaces for the same group of users. In your primary Region, you select the Windows Value Bundle with a fixed price of $25 per machine per month.

You can enable data replication for your standby WorkSpaces through Multi-Region Resilience to automatically replicate root and user volume data from your primary WorkSpaces to your standby WorkSpaces. Data replication incurs a monthly fee per gigabyte of storage of the primary WorkSpaces root and user volumes.

In your secondary Region, US West (Oregon), you have 100 Performance standby WorkSpaces with the same configuration. You've now enabled data replication for the standby WorkSpaces, allowing the root volume and user volume data to replicate from your primary Region to the secondary Region.

Two Standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Windows, or Amazon Linux virtual desktops bundles with 80 GB Root and 50 GB User volumes, running in hourly metering mode, for up to 40 hours of combined use per month for the first three months using WorkSpaces.

Two Standard Windows virtual desktop bundles with 200 GB Root volume, running in hourly metering mode, for up to 40 hours of combined use per month for the first three months using WorkSpaces.

Education pricing is available for WorkSpaces for qualified educational users of Microsoft Windows. With this offer, education organizations save $3.52 per user per month or $0.03 per user per hour by using licensing discounts from Microsoft. You can take advantage of this discount if you qualify, based on Microsoft Licensing Terms and Documentation. If you think you might qualify, please create a case. Select Regarding: Account and Billing Support, Service: Billing, Category: Qualify as Educational Institution, and enter the required info. We will review your information and work with you to reduce your fees and costs.

Schools, universities, and certain public institutions may qualify for a reduced Microsoft RDS SAL user fee of $0.44 per user per month. Please refer to the Microsoft Licensing Terms and Documents for qualification requirements. If you think you qualify, please contact us.

**The offer expires on April 1, 2025, regardless of when you started receiving benefits under the offer. After April 1, 2025, the WorkSpaces you launched during the promotion period will automatically be billed at the applicable rate unless removed. When calculating your use of Ubuntu WorkSpaces under this offer, we will aggregate your use across all AWS Regions. We can terminate this offer at any time, for any reason.

Update: I found, like some others on the forum, that I had no problem logging into the various customer.xfinity.com pages (billing, account, etc.) when connected via wifi, but always had a problem when connected via ethernet. I much prefer ethernet for my main PC, so I did some digging into the settings for wifi connections versus ethernet on my PC. I couldn't come up with anything just perusing the settings of each adapter, so I tried resetting the ethernet adapter (in Device Manager, right click on the ethernet adapter and click on disable in the drop down menu. Reboot the computer, after it reloads go back into Device Manager and enable the ethernet adapter.) That basically causes the adapter to revert to it's original settings. In this case it corrected my connection problem with xfinity, and I no longer have a problem logging in to my account. Since xfinity was the only website affected, I still wonder what caused this but at least things are working as I type this. Hope this helps anyone else with the same problem.

I agree. I think Xfinity has become VERY passive/aggressive. You can only check your outage/upload speed on the app on your phone now. It's no longer available on a desktop (which is where I do everything). Also, they keep advertising an upgrade to faster internet speeds for like $10 more a month and I think they've slowed down internet speeds so people will take the deal. Now, I can't get my Xfinity home/account page to even load on my desktop. Very sketchy things going on here.