Shadow for Makers Offers Remote Access to Powerful Windows Workstations

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While its name isn't as recognizable as GeForce Now or Xbox Game Pass, Shadow has established itself as a capable PC streaming service that, unlike Nvidia and Microsoft's services, offers remote hardware access for businesses as well as consumers. Its newest product offering, Shadow for Makers, was announced today at GDC 2023, and it offers remote access to a Windows workstation to individual designers and developers on a monthly basis.

Users can choose between Shadow's Spark hardware with an Intel Xeon-equivalent CPU, Nvidia GTX 1080-equivalent GPU, and 12GB of RAM; and Zenith hardware with an AMD EPYC 7543P-equivalent CPU, Nvidia RTX A4500-equivalent GPU, and 16GB of RAM (with an upgrade to 28GB later this year). Both subscriptions include 1TB of storage, significantly more than the 256GB and 512GB offered with the comparably equipped, more gaming-focused Shadow PC and Shadow PC with Power Upgrade subscriptions Shadow currently offers.

Shadow for Makers and Shadow PC subscriptions both include Windows 10 Home licenses for the remote systems, with Windows 11 planned for later this year. Users will have to bring their own software tools, though; like with Shadow PC and games (and other apps), Shadow for Makers does not provide any commercial software besides the Windows license.

This isn't Shadow's only run at non-gaming services. As we noted when we first tried Shadow PC, offering remote access to more powerful hardware than a user might have available first-hand raises interesting possibilities outside of games. With that in mind, Shadow has offered enterprise-level Shadow for Business, now renamed Shadow for Enterprise, to larger organizations.

Shadow for Enterprise subscriptions are more expensive than Shadow PC and