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Octane Cloud Desktop

OTOY | 1*

Windows, Windows 2008 R2 x64 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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3 AWS reviews

    Imagination!

Works as advertised, still falls short.

  • August 05, 2015
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Before I seem harsh: Otoy Cloud Desktop is a great start-up-and-try desktop system. With some editing of the user permissions, you can start adding software to your instance freely and use the Orbx streaming API to get pretty good stream video from your desktop. Excellent setup for presentations.

That said, it has a lot of work to be done that Otoy has not convinced me that it is working on. Let me explain.

Otoy handily has a client API for the recommended connection settings on its website. Unfortunately, it's completely worthless to try anything except the default connection string that you're given in the AWS documentation. Any other attempt to reconfigure it, whether it's enabling the audio or enabling encryption (a big one for me, -1 star just for not allowing encryption in your streaming desktop application) your instance will not display when you use any other configuration.

Many are quick to jump in and say that it's because it's a work in progress, the truth isn't as innocent. The reason this AMI is free compared to the other desktop streaming solutions on AWS Marketplace is because this AMI is actually a disguised advertisement for Otoy's streaming service. It's been kept out-of-date intentionally to play up the more robust features of Otoy's own streaming service, which is considerably more expensive than Amazon's. Don't get fooled into Otoy's sales pitch into thinking that this can do anything that any other streaming desktop AMI around can do for the low price of free.

If you can live without the features offered in other streaming AMIs, or just wish to see if a streaming desktop is right for you; then this is the perfect desktop instance to pick up and play with little setup with relatively pure quality. If you're getting into this for a niche application or because you're intending on using it for possibly sensitive information like logging into game servers; then you should look elsewhere for a product which is more security-minded than this mere test sample provided for their future customers.

4-Stars, did everything it promised it could on the AMI page, but did absolutely nothing more than what it promised.


    Timotej Paulik

poor performance

  • May 21, 2014
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I expected better performance and also better quality of graphics. The graphics was mostly blurry. Perhaps, having of native client the quality would be better.
Unfortunately, at this moment it isn't usable :-(


    Colin McCullagh

Does what it says on the tin!

  • March 13, 2014
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I must admit I was pleasantly surprised at the ease with which this AMI did what I was looking for it to do - being the ability to run our (OpenGL based) software on a G2 AWS machine within an end point browser!
The graphics were occasionally blurry but the concept of the AMI was achieved. (I would be very interested in an option to provide lossless graphics!)


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