Amazon DCV (NICE DCV) alternative
Remotle vs Amazon DCV
Amazon DCV, formerly NICE DCV, is self-hosted and listens for connections on the workstation, with a separate gateway and broker for access from outside. Remotle connects outbound only, with the broker and relay built in.
What Remotle adds
- No connection broker to deploy
- No IP addresses for people to type
- Remote access without a VPN or gateway
- Cloud-managed option
- H.265 (HEVC) encoding
- HDR and 10-bit colour
- Monitors above 4K
- Copy and paste files
- iPad and iPhone
- Kiosk mode
- Zero client hardware
- Direct connection with relay fallback
- No inbound ports on the workstation
- Entra ID sign-in (SSO) to the app and admin portal
- Entra ID sign-in (SSO) straight to the Windows desktop, built in
- Reconnects automatically
- Updates the host software automatically
Feature by feature
Remotle | Amazon DCV | |
|---|---|---|
| Connecting | ||
| No connection broker to deploy | ||
| No IP addresses for people to type | ||
| Remote access without a VPN or gateway | ||
| Cloud-managed option | ||
| Self-hosted option, on your own network | ||
| Picture | ||
| Hardware-encoded H.264 on the workstation GPU | ||
| H.265 (HEVC) encoding | ||
| 4:4:4 full colour | ||
| HDR and 10-bit colour | ||
| Monitors above 4K | ||
| Multi-monitor, up to four displays | ||
| Mixed resolutions across monitors | ||
| No encoding while the screen is still | ||
| Input and peripherals | ||
| USB redirection | ||
| 3D mice such as SpaceMouse | ||
| Pen pressure and tilt | ||
| Webcam redirection | ||
| Microphone | ||
| Clipboard both ways, text and images | ||
| Copy and paste files | ||
| Clients | ||
| Windows | ||
| macOS on Apple silicon | ||
| iPad and iPhone | ||
| Kiosk mode | ||
| Zero client hardware | ||
| Network and security | ||
| Encrypted end to end with TLS 1.3 | ||
| UDP and QUIC transport | ||
| Direct connection with relay fallback | ||
| No inbound ports on the workstation | ||
| Client verifies the host certificate | ||
| Only pixels leave the workstation | ||
| Adapts to the available bandwidth | ||
| Sessions | ||
| Entra ID sign-in (SSO) to the app and admin portal | ||
| Entra ID sign-in (SSO) straight to the Windows desktop, built in | ||
| Streams the Windows sign-in screen | ||
| Reconnects automatically | ||
| Updates the host software automatically |
A tick for Amazon DCV means the capability is listed in its published documentation, reviewed September and October 2026. A cross means we did not find it listed, not that the product cannot do it.
Remotle is free to try, then £10 per user or £15 per workstation per month, excluding VAT. Compare all of them