Deploy XenApp in the cloud

XenApp can be deployed in the cloud with the low-cost, highly automated options of Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) as well as Microsoft Windows Azure. Citrix supports XenApp on both cloud platforms; customers and service providers bring their new or existing annual, perpetual, or monthly subscription licenses. 

Benefits of XenApp in the cloud

Customer choosing to use the public cloud as a XenApp deployment platform can benefit from a number of advantages, including

• Lower capital costs
• Decreased set-up and configuration time
• Decreased sizing and capacity risk
• Faster time-to-market

Deploying on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2

Citrix provides community-sourced tools, documentation and support. Deliver a cloud-based environment with no change to the quantity or pricing of current XenApp 6.5 license. In fact set-up of hundreds or even thousands of seats of capacity can be deployed in minutes by leveraging Citrix community’s AWS CloudFormation scripts to automatically build XenApp farms to your specifications. Learn more about XenApp deployment on Amazon EC2 by visiting the Citrix community.

Deploying on Microsoft Windows^® Azure

Delivering cloud hosted desktops from Microsoft Azure gives Citrix enterprise customers and service providers alike the benefit of deploying in a cloud familiar to Windows administrators and optimized for Windows workloads. By leveraging Citrix Design Guides for Microsoft Azure, service providers can rapidly create high-quality multi-tenant hosted desktop services based in Azure.