# Azure Virtual Desktop Optimization | Cloud Efficiency Hub Canonical: https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-virtual-desktop 1 documented Azure Virtual Desktop cost inefficiency, with how to detect it and how to fix it. [Cloud Efficiency Hub](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub) 1 documented Azure Virtual Desktop cost inefficiency, with how to detect it and how to fix it. ## 1 inefficiency [All services](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub#browse-by-service) - Azure Virtual Desktop CER-0409 ### [Azure Virtual Desktop Host Pools Without an Autoscale Scaling Plan](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/azure-virtual-desktop-host-pools-without-an-autoscale-scaling-plan) Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts are ordinary Azure virtual machines, billed for compute every hour they are running whether or not anyone is signed in. Desktop demand follows the working day, so host pools whose session hosts run... Compute ## More Azure services - [Azure Virtual Machines 12](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-virtual-machines) - [Azure Cognitive Services 10](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-cognitive-services) - [Azure SQL 10](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-sql) - [Azure Managed Disks 9](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-managed-disks) - [Azure Blob Storage 7](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-blob-storage) - [Azure AKS 6](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-aks) - [Azure Cosmos DB 6](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-cosmos-db) - [Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server 4](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-database-for-postgresql---flexible-server) - [Azure Log Analytics 4](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-log-analytics) - [Azure App Service 3](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-app-service) --- Source: the public page above. Product screenshots and illustrative interfaces are examples, not live customer data.