Author: Andrew Morgan

Note: [August 2024 update] The steps in this blog have been automated with the dcv-gw-sm-without-pipelines AWS CDK hosted in dcv-samples. In this blog, you walk through configuring a NICE DCV Connection Gateway to provide secure access sessions managed by NICE DCV Session Manager. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol. DCV provides a secure […]

With the announcement of the modify Amazon WorkSpaces protocol API, you can convert existing WorkSpaces to the WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) without a rebuild. Converting existing WorkSpaces lets you use the recent protocol performance and feature improvements, such as webcam support and smart card authentication. Previously, changing a WorkSpaces’ protocol from PCoIP to WSP required […]

Organizations running traditional virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) miss out on the optimizations offered by cloud-native technologies. Modernizing VDI provides significant benefits to the agility, reliability, and cost optimization of maintaining your workloads at scale. Cloud-native AWS End User Computing (EUC) solutions provide a clear path to achieving these benefits out of the box. AWS EUC […]

Administrators can reduce self-managed VDI operational overhead by using End User Computing (EUC) managed services. Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkSpaces are fully managed, application, and desktop virtualization services. These services have APIs to programmatically manage and maintain the workload. The EUC Toolkit is an open-sourced tool to add additional functionality using the service-related public […]

In this blog, we show you how to add, launch, and use a graphical Imaging Assistant for Amazon AppStream 2.0 Linux. With Amazon AppStream 2.0 Linux application streaming, you can stream Linux applications and desktops to your users, and greatly lower the total streaming costs. You can use the Linux command line to use the […]

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory is a fully managed Microsoft Active Directory that is often paired with Amazon WorkSpaces. Customers choose AWS Managed Microsoft AD because of its built-in high availability, monitoring, and backups. AWS Managed Microsoft AD Enterprise edition adds the ability to configure multi-Region Replication. This feature automatically configures inter-Region networking […]

With Amazon AppStream 2.0 Elastic fleets you can stream portable applications to users without having to manage AppStream 2.0 images, configure scaling policies, or predict utilization. A portable application is an application that can have all of its dependencies reside in a single mounted path. Elastic fleets download a virtual hard disk (VHD) that contains […]