

If you don’t have an account yet, you can easily create one on the Microsoft Azure website. I will use Microsoft Azure as the public cloud provider.īasic knowledge about Microsoft Azure is necessary, because the explanation is mainly focussed on the pitfalls I came across.Īs additional prerequisites you need to have a Microsoft Azure account as well as an eligible Microsoft Windows 10 license for use in the VM. This blog post is intended as documentation of the setup.įeel free to adopt it for your gaming needs. I had no worries related to RAM or CPU, but I was a bit sceptic with regard to latency.Īfter some research I was convinced, that there is good chance that it will work and tried it out. This VM can then be used as a remote desktop, which runs the games you would like to play. Using cloud technologies in day-to-day business, the obvious solution is to create a virtual machine (VM) hosted in the cloud.

I still like to play computer games from time to time - but the purchase of a real gaming computer seems to be overkill for playing 10 to 20 hours a year.

Like for many others, my first contact to computers was related to playing computer games.
