Desktop and Application Streaming

Customers want to use desktop services to deliver business-critical applications and desktops to their end users at scale. Our mission in the Amazon End User Computing (EUC) organization is designed to enable customers to securely get work done from anywhere and from any device. To help us deliver on this mission, we launched Amazon WorkSpaces […]

Amazon WorkSpaces has traditionally supported Active Directory domain-join desktops. Administrators manage these desktops through group policies and tools that run on site servers and branch servers. Custom image pipelines are built to install applications, push updates, and patch desktops at scale. IT administrators spend time to create and maintain custom images for different user personas. […]

Organizations deploying Amazon WorkSpaces applications with Microsoft Entra ID need a way to dynamically control application entitlements based on group membership. As user populations grow and application catalogues expand, manual entitlement management becomes error-prone and operationally expensive. This post walks through a serverless solution that automatically controls application visibility based on a user’s Entra ID […]

Managing a fleet of virtual desktops means staying ahead of performance issues before they become help desk tickets. Whether you are running Amazon WorkSpaces personal or Amazon WorkSpaces applications, your administrators need clear, actionable visibility into how those environments are performing and how users are connecting. Building Amazon CloudWatch dashboards from scratch is straightforward, but […]

Automotive and Manufacturing (A&M) teams are rethinking how engineering environments are built. Global design teams, GPU-heavy workloads, and strict IP controls demand more than traditional desktops or legacy VDI platforms provide. Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), visualization, simulation, and AI-assisted design workflows are driving higher GPU requirements. Traditional on-premises workstations and static […]

This quarter we delivered updates to Amazon WorkSpaces across graphics performance and visual quality, productivity tools, and operational visibility. We also launched a new training program to let you build expertise with Amazon WorkSpaces. Here’s what you might have missed. Graphics Performance & Visual Quality Graphics G6, Gr6, and G6f Bundles What it does: GPU-accelerated virtual […]

When end users reports that their Amazon WorkSpace is slow or unable to connect, what happens next? Administrators work through various diagnostic tools, analyzing Amazon CloudWatch metrics, reviewing logs, and correlating signals across multiple sources to identify the root cause. While manageable at small scale, this approach does not scale across hundreds or thousands of WorkSpaces leading to increased time to resolution and frequent escalation […]

IT teams managing hundreds or thousands of Amazon WorkSpaces face a critical challenge controlling costs while maintaining optimal user experience across their virtual desktop infrastructure. Without deep visibility into usage patterns, session data, and resource utilization, organizations struggle to identify cost optimization opportunities, spot inactive workspaces, and make informed decisions about AutoStop versus AlwaysOn configurations. […]

We are excited to announce the availability of new Amazon WorkSpaces G6, Gr6, and G6f Graphics bundles for WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Core. These bundles are built on Amazon EC2 G6, Gr6, and G6f instances respectively and powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs. When running representative graphics and ML inference workloads, the G6 family […]

We have got some exciting news to share: Microsoft Teams optimization for Amazon WorkSpaces is now generally available to all customers. If you’ve been looking for a way to make virtual meetings smoother and more reliable in your WorkSpaces environment, Microsoft Teams optimization provides this capability. From Public Preview to General Availability Back in September […]