Author: Justin Grego

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the demand for cloud-based solutions is stronger than ever. End user and software vendors recognize the transformative potential of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) models for delivering applications. Enhanced efficiency and accessibility to modernization and increased Return on Investment (ROI), the benefits are undeniable. Amazon AppStream 2.0 unleashes the power of web-based […]

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications applications manager is a feature that streamlines the process of creating an app block. With applications manager, you create and connect to an app block builder instance and utilize the new application builder assistant to monitor your application installation. This new feature expands application compatibility with elastic fleets as well as reduces […]

With Amazon WorkSpaces Applications, applications run securely in the cloud, isolated from end users’ local machines. In some scenarios, customers require interaction between remote and local applications. For example, consider a hosted application that exports data to an external program, such as a spreadsheet or PDF application that is installed and licensed on a local […]

At re:Invent 2022, we are hosting a hands-on workshop EUC 306: Getting started with Amazon WorkSpaces. In this workshop, you learn how to deploy cloud desktops using Amazon WorkSpaces. Amazon WorkSpaces is a secure, fully managed, fully persistent desktop computing service. With Amazon WorkSpaces, you can quickly provision cloud-based Windows and Linux virtual desktops. With […]

Both Amazon WorkSpaces Applications and Amazon WorkSpaces have a default security group to attach to new instances. In highly regulated and controlled environments, a single security group does not always meet security requirements of the organization. Centrally managed security policies require attaching multiple security groups that are controlled by the security or other team. In […]

Customers use Amazon WorkSpaces Applications to stream applications and desktops to an HTML5-capable web browser. WorkSpaces Applications through the web browser provides functionality for most users, including support for multiple monitors, touchscreen devices, file transfers, and webcams. Users can also access WorkSpaces Applications with the native client for additional functionality such as peripheral devices or […]

Customers often ask how they can streamline the management and maintenance of their Amazon WorkSpaces Applications images and fleets. In a previous post, I walked you through automatically creating customized WorkSpaces Applications images running Microsoft Windows. Late last year, Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduced support for Amazon Linux 2 based images and fleets. This brought the […]

Customers often ask how they can streamline the management and maintenance of their Amazon WorkSpaces Applications images and fleets. In this blog, I walk you through automatically creating customized WorkSpaces Applications Windows images. TheWorkSpaces Applications service includes a rich set of API operations with which you can programmatically interact with the service. Also, the Image […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the addition of Amazon WorkSpaces Service Limits within Service Quotas. This now allows customers to have visibility into what their current limits are for the various types of WorkSpaces in a given AWS Region. Combined with the API operations to query deployed WorkSpaces, customers now have the tools at […]

The default behavior of an Amazon WorkSpaces Applications Stack is to present all the applications to the end user that were added to the application catalog by the administrator creating the image. Customers accustomed to targeting individual applications to end users based on Active Directory group membership can also continue to do so using the […]