Desktop and Application Streaming

Murali Rathinasamy

Author: Murali Rathinasamy

AWS CloudFormation support for Amazon AppStream 2.0 resources and API enhancements

We’ve learned from our customers that they want to create AppStream 2.0 resources along with their AWS resources to support a workshop or event. Today, AWS is announcing that AWS CloudFormation now supports creating AppStream 2.0 resources. With a single template, you can automate the creation of your stacks, fleets, image builders, directory configurations, and […]

Federating Access to Amazon AppStream 2.0 from VMware Workspace ONE

Amazon AppStream 2.0 provides three different methods for authenticating your users and providing them remote access to your Windows applications: User Pool– a simple built-in option to configure users and provide sign-in Custom identity – Set up your own identity and use the CreateStreamingURL API to start a session after user sign SAML 2.0 – Federated single sign-in […]

Amazon AppStream 2.0 Updates: Image Sharing APIs, Clipboard enhancement, and DescribeSessions API with client IP

I’m excited to share three new features we added to Amazon AppStream 2.0 recently. These features enable you to programmatically copy your images between AWS accounts within the same AWS Region, improve the text copy and paste experience, and enable you to identify the IP addresses your streaming instances are using in your Amazon VPC. […]

Learn how Vanguard built a secure sandbox system with AppStream 2.0 and AWS

Our colleagues at This Is My Architecture recorded a video with Yoni from Vanguard that explains how his team built a secure sandbox system that allows internal users to experiment with AWS in a safe, isolated environment. You’ll see how they used AppStream 2.0 to provide jumpbox-like functionality from the browser, Lambda to automate operations, IAM plus […]

Enabling default OS and application settings for your users in Amazon AppStream 2.0

When your users first stream applications on Amazon AppStream 2.0, you want to get them started quickly. You may want each user to start with default settings for bookmarks, plug-ins, application view, database connections, environment variables, and Internet Explorer security settings. We recently launched default application settings for Amazon AppStream 2.0 to make this easier. You […]