Category: Amazon WorkSpaces

Mark your calendar for AWS re:Invent 2025, December 1-5 in Las Vegas! Discover how Amazon WorkSpaces is helping organizations transform their digital workplace through AI-powered automation, enhanced security features, and streamlined migration paths from legacy VDI solutions. Through keynotes, breakout sessions, and hands-on workshops, you’ll explore how enterprises are eliminating physical infrastructure costs, enhancing security […]

Our customers often tell us they need a tool to help build their autoscaling policies for Amazon WorkSpaces applications. Through smart capacity planning, organizations ensure sufficient resources during high-demand periods while avoiding excess provisioning. This approach improves reliability and performance while optimizing costs. In a previous blog: Amazon WorkSpaces Applications releases a simple pricing tool, […]

This blog walks you through how to use the WorkSpaces applications Simple Pricing Tool for Always-On and On-Demand fleets with visualization of usage patterns, common pricing examples, and education licensing. To learn about Elastic fleets, read AWS announces Availability of Elastic fleets with Amazon WorkSpaces applications and refer to the WorkSpaces applications pricing page. You […]

In today’s security-conscious world, organizations are implementing strong authentication methods for applications running inside virtual desktop environments. A common challenge is enabling users to leverage their local security keys and biometric devices with applications running inside a remote desktop session. Amazon WorkSpaces now addresses this challenge with WebAuthn redirection, allowing users to seamlessly use their […]

Amazon WorkSpaces was released in March 2014 and the primary north star of the service has remained a constant; secure, remote access for end users from anywhere on any device. As our customers business needs evolved, new services and features were introduced in the End User Computing family of services. This brought new ways of […]

We are excited to share that Microsoft launched a public preview of Microsoft Teams optimization for Amazon WorkSpaces. This new capability significantly enhances the Teams experience for Amazon WorkSpaces users by optimizing audio and video streaming performance. A Strategic Collaboration AWS and Microsoft have worked closely together to bring this highly requested feature to WorkSpaces […]

As the Director of Product for AWS End User Computing (EUC) services, IT leaders from organizations of all shapes and sizes often tell me they need highly secure, globally available, easy-to-manage solutions, with the flexibly to configure them in a way that best supports their specific requirements. At AWS, we obsess over customer feedback and […]

Introduction With Citrix announcing general availability of Citrix DaaS Machine Creation Services (MCS) on Amazon WorkSpaces Core, organizations can now leverage Citrix’s powerful provisioning capabilities with WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances. This integration simplifies virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) migrations while providing highly customizable instance configurations for organizations requiring specific compute, memory, or graphics requirements. Additional Information […]

The AWS and FabulaTech teams collaborated to enhance the End User Computing (EUC) experience. As part of this partnership, our friends at FabulaTech launched a partner solutions page. This page demonstrates their peripheral redirection capabilities that work seamlessly with Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon AppStream 2.0. These solutions provide customers with a richer EUC experience […]

Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 – approximately three months from today – after which you will no longer receive free security updates, feature updates, or technical support. The good news? Amazon WorkSpaces is a great place to run Windows 11—providing a highly secure, cost effective, pay-as-you-go environment that allows you […]