A cloud desktop is a desktop environment that is hosted by a virtual machine running in the cloud. Just as you can use VM instances on a cloud platform such as Azure Virtual Machines or AWS EC2 to host virtual servers, you can do the same thing with desktops.
If you were asked to name the most important cloud-based tools and services for doing DevOps, chances are that cloud desktops would not make it on the list. Your mind would probably instead go to IAM frameworks, cloud-based CI/CD suites and cloud IaC tools.
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