Category: Amazon WorkSpaces

Customers in regulated industries like the public sector, healthcare, and financial services often need to meet compliance and audit requirements. This involves storing, archiving, and analyzing user’s browsing trends, such as website visits and session times. Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser is a fully managed, remote enterprise browser that allows users to access internal websites and […]

At AWS re:Invent 2022, AWS launched Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, which includes integrations with Amazon WorkSpaces Personal. After you associate your WorkSpaces with Internet Monitor, you can identify potential performance and internet connection issues of your users to their WorkSpaces. The service provides you with IP prefixes and ASN (typically, the internet service provider or […]

In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses are increasingly adopting cloud-based desktops to provide their employees with flexible and secure work environments, regardless of their location. With distributed work environments and complex technology stacks, customers need comprehensive observability solutions to monitor, manage and optimize their digital infrastructure and applications effectively. ControlUp offers a rich set of […]

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 […]

Omnissa, formerly VMware, announced new features for Horizon 8 in version 2406. With this announcement, Horizon 8 virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) customers can take advantage of these features using Amazon WorkSpaces Core: Reduce costs, improve security, and optimize user productivity with new automated provisioning enhancements and power management features. With this announcement, you can reduce […]

Introduction With Citrix DaaS on Amazon WorkSpaces Core moving from public tech preview to general availability (GA), you can extend your on-premises Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to the highly scalable AWS Cloud—helping reduce costs, improve security, and optimize user productivity. Citrix DaaS on WorkSpaces Core provides the flexibility to integrate with AWS infrastructure by simplifying […]

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 […]

The Cost Optimizer for Amazon WorkSpaces is a tool that analyzes Amazon WorkSpaces usage data and can automatically convert the WorkSpace instance 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. Today, we are pleased to […]

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 […]

As General Manager of AWS End User Computing Services, I’m often asked to help accelerate cloud migrations of on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments to the AWS Cloud. That’s why I am stoked about Dizzion Navigator Migration Service, a new service offering available in the AWS Marketplace, recently announced by Dizzion. Dizzion Navigator Migration Service […]