Desktop and Application Streaming

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Enhanced management for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal with ControlUp

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 […]

New Omnissa Horizon 8 features supported by Amazon WorkSpaces Core

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 […]

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Citrix announces general availability of Citrix DaaS on Amazon WorkSpaces Core

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 […]

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 […]

Key considerations for single versus multi-session Amazon AppStream 2.0

Key considerations for single versus multi-session fleets on Amazon AppStream 2.0

With Amazon AppStream 2.0, users securely stream their applications and/or selectively persistent desktops. As an administrator, you provide each user with their own instance for their streaming session, or share those resources and host multiple users per instance. When using well-architected principles, AppStream 2.0 multi-session fleets can help you substantially reduce costs. However, there are […]

Best practices for successful BYOL image creation for Amazon WorkSpaces

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 […]

Automatically create customized Amazon WorkSpaces Windows images

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 […]

Announcing new larger instance types for Amazon WorkSpaces Web

Announcing new larger instance types for Amazon WorkSpaces Web

This week we announced larger instance types for Amazon WorkSpaces Web, a cloud-native hosted browser service that enables users to securely access private websites and software-as-a-service (SaaS) web applications, interact with online resources, and anonymously browse the internet. These larger instance types enable customers to support more resource-intensive use cases like streaming audio or video, […]

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 […]

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 […]