Desktop and Application Streaming
Author: Dan Garibay
Amazon WorkSpaces launches Graphics G6, Gr6, and G6f bundles
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 […]
Navigating the Windows 10 to 11 Migration for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal
The clock is ticking With Windows 10 Enterprise reaching its end-of-support (EOS) on October 14, 2025, end-user computing administrators must migrate to Windows 11 to maintain a supported operating system. This post outlines the Windows 11 BYOL (bring your own license) migration process for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal users. Note: Customers using Windows 10 BYOL on […]
Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Applications
At AWS, we love to give our customers choices: the choice of infrastructure to deploy your workloads, to store your most important data, or the operating systems for your virtual desktops. Many of you choose Amazon WorkSpaces to provision and distribute virtual desktops securely and at scale to your workforce. Our customers choose WorkSpaces when […]
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 […]
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 […]
Deploying and managing Amazon WorkSpaces applications with Ansible
Amazon WorkSpaces provides administrators with a fully managed virtual desktop infrastructure, which scales on-demand, with no up-front commitment costs. Amazon available in Microsoft Windows, Amazon Linux 2, and Ubuntu based versions. Foundational challenges with the maintenance of a persistent virtual desktop infrastructure include the management of application deployments and patching status validation. This is especially […]
Optimize Amazon WorkSpaces performance with the EUC Metrics Portal
Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop virtualization service for Windows, Amazon Linux 2, and Ubuntu, that allows you to access resources from any supported device and has no up-front commitment costs. Amazon AppStream 2.0 manages the AWS resources required to host and run your applications, scales automatically, and provides access to your users on […]