Category: Amazon WorkSpaces

Customers often ask how they can visually gain granular insights into their Amazon WorkSpaces Personal utilization (billable hours used, running mode, bundle type, AWS Regions). Capturing and visualizing this data can provide several key benefits: Understand monthly billable hours for each WorkSpace to identify underutilized instances you can terminate to optimize costs. Determine the appropriate […]

Customer often ask how they can improve the experience for users connecting to Amazon WorkSpaces. End users may be connecting from long distances or over unreliable networks. WorkSpaces Personal now integrates with AWS Global Accelerator (AGA) to enhance WorkSpaces connection performance by optimizing streaming traffic through the AWS Global Network and edge locations. This feature […]

The Cost Optimizer for Amazon WorkSpaces is a tool that analyzes your Amazon WorkSpaces usage data and automatically converts the WorkSpace to the most cost-effective billing option depending on the individual usage. You can use the Cost Optimizer with a single account or with AWS Organizations across multiple accounts. Customers in highly-regulated environments often have limited or nopublic […]

Facing constant pressure to do more with less, IT organizations strive to reduce costs without sacrificing security. Please join Matt Olson and me at re:Invent 2024, where we present Chalk Talk session EUC205 “Optimize costs and security with Amazon WorkSpaces Family services”. During this session, we’ll explore how Amazon WorkSpaces Family services can help your […]

This post was co-written with Eli Aleyner, Head of Tech Alliances; Chris McLellan, Principal Product Manager; and Dan Stelzer, Sr Manager Partner GTM at Docker Inc. When we speak to customers, they tell us their developers have been unable to use Docker Desktop on Windows personal WorkSpaces due to the lack of support for nested […]

When we speak with customers they tell us that self-managing on-premise virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is expensive and limits IT agility. Additional concerns over potential VDI software price increases are causing organizations to accelerate plans to migrate to the cloud. This year at re:Invent 2024, we are looking forward to hosting EUC204, a Chalk Talk […]

Automating key processes is essential to managing the Amazon WorkSpaces Family of services effectively at scale. Proper use of automation maximizes efficiency and productivity for managing virtual desktop environments. In this hands-on builders’ session, you’ll learn how to optimize management of WorkSpaces Family services at scale through automation using scripts and other workflows. You will […]

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 […]

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 […]

When I speak with customers about Amazon WorkSpaces Personal, they commonly ask about ways to monitor and manage their WorkSpaces at scale. One great option for Ubuntu WorkSpaces is Landscape, provided by Canonical, an AWS Partner. Landscape is available at no extra cost through the Ubuntu Pro subscription included with each Ubuntu WorkSpace. I’m excited […]