Australian built · Azure Lab Services alternative

Hands-on labs for your class, ready in minutes.

LabPilot gives every student their own real machine, ready the moment they sign in. Pick an image, share one code, and your class is up and running, with no installs, no setup and no IT tickets.

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No IT project No images to build, no servers to babysit, no licences to buy. If you can share a code, you can run a lab. See how it works →
How it works

From nothing to a full class in three steps.

No images to build, no software to install, no IT ticket to raise. If you can share a code, you can run a lab this afternoon.

STEP 01
Windows Server 2022
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Kali Linux

Pick your lab image

Choose Windows, Ubuntu, or Kali, or bring your own image with the tools your unit needs. That becomes the template every student gets a copy of.

STEP 02
Seats35
Hours / student20 h
Idle shutdown15 min

Set the class rules

Choose how many seats, how many hours each student gets, and when idle machines switch off. LabPilot builds a machine for everyone, ready to go.

STEP 03
You're invited
Networking Lab is ready. Click below to jump in.
Register & get my machine

Email your students

Add your class and send an invite in one click. Students click the link in their inbox and land on their own machine in the browser, with no accounts, no setup and no IT tickets.

Built for the classroom

Everything your class needs. Nothing it doesn't.

Hour quotas for each student

Give each student their own hours, whether that is 20 or 200. Machines pause when they run out, so nothing runs away over the weekend.

Automatic shutdown on idle

Forgotten machines switch themselves off. Idle detection and class schedules keep everything tidy between sessions.

Nothing for students to install

A join code and a browser is all a student needs. Works from the lab, the library, or the couch at home.

Live usage dashboard

See who's connected and how many hours they've used, live, so you're never guessing what your class is doing.

The exact environment you teach

Windows, Ubuntu, Kali, or your own image with the tools ready to go. Every student gets the same setup, every time.

Isolated per class

Every lab is its own sandbox. Students can break their own machine spectacularly, and nothing else.

Ready for the AI era

Heavy enough for what you teach next.

Courses are modernising fast, blending LLM use into every unit: cybersecurity, data science, AI, application development and network management. That means the lab has to carry more. LabPilot gives every student a real machine with the room to design and run enterprise networks, stand up virtualised deployments, and host or connect to LLM based services and security designs, all inside their own isolated sandbox.

Enterprise networks & deployments

Students design and run multi machine networks and full virtualised deployments inside a single VM, using built in nested virtualization.

LLM ready

Real compute and internet access on every machine, so students run local models or host and connect to LLM based services and APIs, right inside their lab.

Security by design

Kali and Windows ranges, isolated per student, for building and testing cyber security designs safely, with nothing able to reach the real world.

Every discipline, one platform

Cybersecurity, data science, AI, application development and network management, all on the same self service labs your students already know.

Zero infrastructure

A full teaching lab.
No server room required.

A traditional lab means racking servers, rebuilding images, patching, backups and planning capacity for the busiest week of the year. LabPilot spins classroom machines up on Azure only while a class needs them, so there is nothing to build and nothing to babysit.

No servers to buy or rack

Azure provides the compute on demand. You never own, house or replace hardware.

No capacity planning

Run five seats or five hundred. Scale up for exam week, back down after, with no procurement.

No patching or backups

The cloud handles the plumbing underneath. No maintenance windows, no 2am pages.

No images to rebuild each term

Set a template up once and reuse it every semester. Update it in a click when the unit changes.

No hardware idle over summer

Machines exist only while a class runs. When the term ends, delete the lab and the cost stops.

No IT project to launch

Connect an Azure subscription, create a lab, share a link. A teacher can do it in an afternoon.

Azure Lab Services alternative

Azure Lab Services is retiring.
LabPilot is the way forward.

Microsoft retires Azure Lab Services on 28 June 2027. LabPilot keeps the same classroom VM model you already know, running on your own Azure subscription, with none of the platform fees that wrapper products charge for every user. It is the simplest path off Lab Services.

Azure Lab Services LabPilot
StatusRetiring June 2027Actively developed
Where it runsMicrosoft managed lab plansYour own Azure subscription
PricingBundled “lab units”Azure compute at cost, nothing per user
Learning curveA new portal to configureFamiliar to anyone who used Lab Services
ImagesMarketplace and customAny image, plus a shared gallery
Nested virtualizationSelect sizesFull Kali and Windows ranges
Student loginRegistration linksMicrosoft login, any device
Your dataThe lab plan's regionThe Azure region you choose

Nothing new to learn

Teachers set up a lab and share a link, exactly like before. Students click that link and land on their machine. No training, no new portal, no help desk tickets on day one.

  • Familiar to teachers and students from day one
  • Everything stays inside your own Azure
  • Bring your existing custom images
  • Quotas, schedules and automatic shutdown built in
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Australian built, global ready

Runs in the Azure region you choose.

Every lab runs in your own Azure subscription, so you choose the region. LabPilot is built in Australia and runs in Australian Azure regions to keep student data onshore, and in any of Azure's 60+ regions worldwide when you teach further afield.

Available in 60+ Azure regions, including
Australia East Australia Southeast UK South West Europe East US Canada Central Southeast Asia Japan East India Central UAE North South Africa North Brazil South 50+ more

Low latency, everywhere

A class in Melbourne, Manchester or Toronto connects to a nearby Azure region, so remote desktops feel like the machine is right under the desk.

Data residency & sovereignty

Coursework and student data stay in the region you choose, so you meet GDPR, FERPA and national sovereignty rules out of the box.

Your policies, inherited

Labs live inside your own tenancy, so your institution's RBAC, spending limits, monitoring and security controls apply automatically.

Pricing

50¢ an hour. That's the whole fee.

LabPilot adds a flat 50¢ per machine hour on top of your cloud compute, with no licences, no subscriptions and no minimums. A machine that is switched off costs nothing.

One simple rate

50¢ for every hour a student's machine is actually running. Easy to predict, easy to budget a whole semester around.

Off means free

Machines start stopped and auto-shut-down when idle. You never pay a cent for a VM nobody is using.

No seats, no contracts

No pricing per student, no monthly minimum, no contract. Scale a class up or down whenever you like.

Per machine hourwhat a student costs
Cloud compute · Standard B2s$0.10
LabPilot fee$0.50
Idle or stopped machines$0.00
Per hour a student is working$0.60
Get started

Your next class could be up and running by tomorrow.

Create a lab, share the code, start teaching. That is the whole setup, with no project plan required.

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