Desktop and Application Streaming

Category: Desktop & Application Streaming

When updates can’t wait, look to the cloud

Consistent, timely software updates are essential for the security of the enterprise. Too often, however, this unglamorous task – or should I say tax – is not executed with enough rigor. Time and again critical security fixes are not pushed with urgency, leaving businesses subject to damaging and costly exploits. This problem is compounded when the […]

Optimize Amazon WorkSpaces Personal Performance with Amazon CloudWatch

Are you looking to gain additional insight how end users are connecting to Amazon WorkSpaces Personal instances? Would you like to track and report on IP addresses, platforms, and client versions being used to access WorkSpaces Personal? Are you interested better understanding operating system resource utilization within the WorkSpace Personal? Even if you attended our […]

Boost contact center efficiency with Amazon WorkSpaces and Thin Client

As an IT leader, you need to make sure your contact center agents are outfitted with the applications and devices they need to offer great customer service. But this is easier said than done when a high turnover workforce has access to critical company information and your IT department faces constant pressure to do more […]

Screenshot of DecisionSpace running in the AppStream 2.0 Windows client.

Halliburton Landmark improves user experience with Amazon AppStream 2.0

Halliburton provides products and services to the energy industry. Landmark provides Exploration & Production professionals with configured enterprise software to maximize asset value. Landmark’s Geosciences Suite, a DecisionSpace® 365 solution, helps energy customers characterize the subsurface with clarity. Landmark delivers Geosciences Suite to users around the world as a cloud-native service via the cloud platform. […]

AWS recognized as a Leader in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service

When I talk to IT leaders responsible for end-user computing, they tell me about the pressure they face to reduce costs, maintain a strong security posture, and deliver an excellent end-user experience, often across a global hybrid workforce. As I’ve reiterated many times while working on AWS End User Computing (EUC) for nearly a decade, […]

Simplify certificate-based authentication for AppStream 2.0 and WorkSpaces with AWS Private CA Connector for Active Directory

In this post, we explain how the AWS Private CA Connector for Active Directory simplifies and accelerates the configuration of certificate-based authentication (CBA) for Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkSpaces. We provide an overview of AWS Private Certificate Authority and Active Directory Certificate Services in this context. We discuss the benefits of using the AWS […]

Entra ID for WorkSpaces

Announcing native Entra ID and Intune support for Amazon WorkSpaces

At AWS, we love to give our customers the flexibility to choose the best virtual desktop solution for their specific needs through a broad range of infrastructure, operating system, and productivity application options. Today, we are expanding customer choice with the announcement of Microsoft Entra ID and Intune integration with Amazon WorkSpaces Personal. With this […]

Accessing AWS resources using AWS IAM Roles Anywhere from Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal provides a secure, persistent desktop computing environment in the cloud. Customers often ask if there is a method to configure WorkSpaces to use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles to issue temporary credentials. In this blog, we explain how you can configure WorkSpaces to use AWS IAM Roles Anywhere and enable […]

RHEL

Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0

At AWS, we love to give our customers choices: the choice of infrastructure to deploy your workloads, to store your most important data, or the operating systems for your virtual desktops. Many of you choose Amazon WorkSpaces to provision and distribute virtual desktops securely and at scale to your workforce. Our customers choose WorkSpaces when […]