Desktop and Application Streaming
Tag: Amazon WorkSpaces
Hardening DNS Resolution for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal is a managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution. You can use WorkSpaces to provision Windows and Linux desktops in just a few minutes and quickly scale across the globe. With WorkSpaces your users get a fast, responsive desktop they can access anywhere, anytime, from any supported device. Customers using WorkSpaces want to maximize […]
Best practices for successful BYOL image creation for Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon WorkSpaces Family solutions provide the right virtual desktop solution for varied worker types, from any location. Amazon WorkSpaces is a flexible virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution that lets you quickly and easily deploy cloud-based desktops. Amazon WorkSpaces Core is designed to work with third-party VDI solutions, allowing them to utilize WorkSpaces fully managed virtual […]
Optimize user experience in Amazon WorkSpaces across AWS Regions
Providing a consistent end user experience is important for productivity, especially during disruptive events. By preparing for failure, you can enable users to continue working as normal without having to learn new business processes. Amazon WorkSpaces, a persistent desktop solution deployed in an AWS Region, offers the Multi-Region Resilience (MRR) feature to help deploy WorkSpaces […]
Automatically create customized Amazon WorkSpaces Windows images
Customers often ask how to streamline the management and maintenance of their Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon WorkSpaces Core images and bundles. The WorkSpaces service includes a rich set of API operations to programmatically interact with the service. A common customer struggle is remotely interacting with the operating system within the WorkSpace to install and configure […]
Enhance Zoom Virtual Meetings on Amazon WorkSpaces with the WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol
We are pleased to announce that Zoom now supports optimized real-time communication for WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) Windows-based Amazon WorkSpaces. Media Optimized Real-Time Communication (Media Optimized RTC) allows the Zoom media framework to be offloaded to the supported client for direct communication. The direct communication between the WorkSpaces client and Zoom endpoint provides a local-like […]
Enterprise Connect 2024 – Contact Centers powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client
Enterprise Connect 2024, March 25 – 28, brings together a broad range of enterprise communications and customer experience (CX) professionals. This community is focused on showcasing and learning about exciting new technology, sharing perspectives, and discussing strategies for enabling world-class collaboration, communication, and contact center operations. We look forward to sharing our expertise on modernizing […]
Unified access to AWS End User Computing services
AWS End User Computing (EUC) services include a variety of virtual desktop and application streaming solutions designed to solve a wide array of customer needs. Amazon WorkSpaces provide users with fully managed, cloud-native persistent desktops. With Amazon AppStream 2.0, users securely stream their applications and/or selectively persistent desktops at scale. Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser provides […]
Simplifying Amazon WorkSpaces access with JumpCloud Go: a secure, passwordless approach
Managing passwords is a hassle, similar to how people misplace their keys. In the world of on-premises Active Directory (AD) environments, passwords represent a potential security risk and are a complicated issue to tackle. This is especially true for remote users that utilize Amazon WorkSpaces. They may encounter difficulties when it comes to password management—particularly […]
Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience with ProfileUnity and PeerGFS
Our friends at Liquidware and PEER Software collaborated with AWS to publish a blog to showcase how you can utilize Liquidware ProfileUnity and Peer Global File Service (“PeerGFS”) to replicate a user’s profile and data to standby Amazon WorkSpaces in a separate Region. This offers a business continuity and disaster recovery solution for your end users to remain productive during disruptive events. To […]
Amazon WorkSpaces SAML 2.0 Federation with Keycloak
In this blog, I discuss how customers can use Keycloak as their Identity Provider (IDP) of choice when implementing SAML 2.0 federation with Amazon WorkSpaces. Keycloak is an open-source solution providing a cost-effective means for customers to use enterprise level IDP features without incurring monthly subscription costs. With SAML 2.0 authentication, customers can access their […]