Intermedia is a fair bit more expensive for the basic options but I've found the support far superior. Also, whilst Office 365 has caught up with it's feature list, Intermedia is far better equipped if you want to do things like multiple domain names for small businesses. Office 365 does do them but you need to get the more expensive enterprise versions at which point Intermedia becomes the cheaper option.Most moving to Office 365 is strongly for significant cost savings and to certain extend have better control of the accounts. I am not so sure about the interface and use of the "Intermedia Office Apps" but I do see O365 will fare any bad then any sort of Office Apps. Key is probably the effort to migrate out and long term management for operation readiness. Of course RemoteApps O365 may not be the best but it does meet those wanting to have to do hybrid or totally cloud outsourced scheme. The portfolio compared to intermedia may be lesser since it revolved only around Office. If you have other needs like voice call, maintenance etc requirement then Intermedia may be capable to make it "transparent" (at cost as expected).
I've got the Intermedia reseller package and I've been able to get contact (via telephone) and things fixed within hours. A couple of simple support queries with the Office 365 Small Business took days to sort out.
Out of the two, for a bog standard SME, with one domain, I'd recommend Office 365 but if your setup requirements are a bit non-standard, Intermedia is the way to go.
Q: How do I use desktop applications from AWS Marketplace?http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/faqs/
You can subscribe to applications from the AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps via Amazon WorkSpaces console. Start by selecting the Application Catalog in Amazon WorkSpaces console, browse and add applications from the AWS Marketplace to your application catalog. Once the applications are in your catalog you can assign the applications to your WorkSpaces users. The applications can then be accessed by users via the Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager (Amazon WAM) desktop app.
Q: How will I be charged for applications from the AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps?
You will be charged the price listed on AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps for each application on a monthly subscription basis. A subscription is activated and charged the first time a user launches an application and will renew monthly until access to the application is removed for that user. Charges for an application are prorated for the remainder of the first month in which a user launches them. Subsequent months are billed for the entire month. Subscriptions that are removed in the middle of a month will not receive a refund for the remainder of the month.
Q: How can WorkSpaces be managed?
The WorkSpaces Management console lets you provision, reboot, rebuild, and delete WorkSpaces. To manage the underlying OS for the WorkSpaces, you can use standard Microsoft Active Directory tools such as Group Policy to manage the WorkSpaces. In the case when you have integrated WorkSpaces with an existing Active Directory domain, you can manage your WorkSpaces using the same tools and techniques you are using for your existing on-premises desktops. If you have not integrated with an existing Active Directory, you can set up a Directory Administration WorkSpace to perform management tasks.
Also using Azure VNet will segment your resource to your network access and give your hybrid collections direct network access to other Azure services and virtual machines deployed to your VNET. supposed to give you better performance and easier to setup compared to VNET-to-VNET. AWS has VPC of similar context but since it is O365, likely Azure has tighter integration and support escalation to the RemoteApps with O365.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/remoteapp-create-cloud-deployment/
main doc - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/remoteapp/