Category: Amazon WorkSpaces Core

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Are you interested providing developers with a virtual desktop environment that allows them to securely build apps using Generative AI and machine learning? Are you running VMware Horizon 8 on-premises and looking to optimize costs and improve IT agility? Secure generative AI and ML development with Amazon WorkSpaces Join us on June 27th at 10:30 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Every year, organizations spend millions of dollars on under-utilized data centers and IT staff required to manage them. We’ve heard from many organizations currently running Citrix on-premises that they like the features included with the Citrix virtual desktop (VDI) management software, but want to leverage AWS Cloud infrastructure to improve return on investment (ROI) and […]

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 Core is a managed virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) designed to work with third-party VDI. Organizations running on-premises VDI solutions face pressures to improve agility and reduce costs. Amazon WorkSpaces Core allows organizations using VMware Horizon 8 to combine their existing VDI management software with the security and reliability of the AWS Cloud. Join […]