Desktop and Application Streaming

AWS End User Computing (EUC) at Washington DC Summit

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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AWS End User Computing at IGEL Disrupt 2024, Miami

As businesses aim to provide employees with seamless, secure, and efficient access to the tools and data required to do their jobs, the demand for end-user computing (EUC) solutions is accelerating. IGEL Disrupt 2024, is a global, three-day event (April 29 – May 1) in Miami, for EUC innovators and thought leaders, focused on delivering […]

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, […]

Announcing the Amazon WorkSpaces dynamic inventory plugin for Ansible®

Announcing the Amazon WorkSpaces dynamic inventory plugin for Ansible®

Customers use Amazon WorkSpaces to get a fully managed remote desktop solution in the AWS cloud, supporting Windows and Linux desktops. They often ask how they can perform bulk management tasks such as automating the installation of applications. Currently, this requires manual systems administration or third-party tools. Ansible is a free and open-source IT automation […]

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 […]

Improve performance and security by blocking ads on Windows Amazon WorkSpaces

Web browsing is typically a source of significant resource usage, which results in slower systems for end users. This drives costs upwards, as compute resources are increased to meet this demand. This blog post will demonstrate how to use Group Policy with Windows editions of Amazon WorkSpaces. You will deploy uBlock Origin to three major […]