Category: Amazon AppStream 2.0

Our friends at Esri published a blog today showing how they’re using Amazon AppStream 2.0 to deliver ArcGIS Pro, a powerful desktop GIS application, to a browser for their training seminars. If you’d like to try this yourself, head over to our Getting started page to download a guide!

AWS is announcing that Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports custom script execution when a session starts, and when it stops. Customers have said that they want to configure their applications and streaming environments before the session starts, or perform clean-up tasks before the session stops. Previously, you would use Windows Group Policy scripts or scheduled […]

Our colleagues at the AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog recently published two new blogs on Amazon AppStream 2.0. The first walks through Integrating Amazon AppStream 2.0 with your Learning Management System, and the second shows how Fife School Districts Use Amazon AppStream 2.0 to Provide Equitable Access. You can learn more at Amazon AppStream 2.0 – Education.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 provides a range of solutions for users to save and access data through their applications. These include Amazon WorkDocs, Google Drive for G Suite, OneDrive for Business, and Amazon S3 backed Home Folders. These solutions download files from their respective file storage provider when the files are opened in a streamed application. […]

Amazon AppStream 2.0 administrators can integrate their own user storage solutions with AppStream 2.0. To do this, they install a storage client on the image builder as they’re setting up their users’ application environment. Then they join their AppStream 2.0 fleets to their Active Directory domain, so that the storage client can sign in the […]

Amazon AppStream 2.0 supports identity federation to AppStream 2.0 stacks through Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0). You can use an identity provider (IdP) that supports SAML 2.0 to provide an onboarding flow for your AppStream 2.0 users. Examples of an IdP are Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) in Windows Server, Ping One […]

AppStream 2.0 customers have told us that they appreciate the ability to scale their fleets based on the user demand. In AppStream 2.0, you can scale your application streaming for any number of users across the globe without purchasing, provisioning, and operating on-premises hardware or infrastructure. You pay only for the streaming resources that you […]

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 […]

You can use single sign-on with Amazon AppStream 2.0 with many identity services that are compliant with Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0). This post explains how to configure federated user access for Amazon AppStream 2.0 using Azure Active Directory Single Sign-On for Enterprise Apps. Solution overview This post shows configuring an SAML 2.0 federation, using […]

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 […]