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The expensive adventure of giving Microsoft WVD a try
Blastfire maybe you noticed that I mentioned my Azure AD / Intune / Hybrid Pilot environment, which I am currently piloting for a company with 100k+ Windows clients. So I am not completely unaware of cloudservices and related cost.
Providing a new service in preview with the management component for free (wow, seems it provided only an error code and a non-op setup after multiple attempts) and getting charged for all the components which are required by a still non working WVD trial is a quite a new experience working with MS preview cloud services for more than 3 years now and being in IT-network/Server business for more than 30 yrs.
Maybe the service is a little more complex than MS preview tutorials ......
To give it a try in isolated manner, you can create a VM, promote it to a DC, and then deploy WVD with it. Then, scrap it up after working with it. To further save the cost, if you deploy RDS based VM (you need RDS with SA to access it though) - you can add a domain controller function to it and promote it to DC, and decommission the original AD - so you get only one VM. Azure VPN services isn't a consumption plan, behind the scenes you get HA setup of networking infrastructure. Also, most of your problems weren't relating to WVD itself, rather than it requires AD-connectivity of any sort.