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Category: Amazon WorkSpaces
Exploring Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client
IT teams face continuous pressure to do more with less, while dealing with rapid employee turnover and ensuring employees have secure access to their desktops. The customer service and back-office workers don’t require general purpose desktops. Instead, they require secure access to websites and SaaS applications to complete their jobs. Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, […]
Overspending on laptops? Introducing Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client
Overspending on laptops? Introducing Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a cost-effective computing device that provides simple, secure, and easy-to-manage access to virtual desktops. Laptops are often the default device choice for end user computing, but for customer service and back office workers it is a costlier choice. Not only it is the cost of laptop, but […]
Seamless and secure end-user computing at Intuit with Amazon WorkSpaces
About Intuit Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for 100 million customers with Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp. Intuit’s range of interconnected products and services deliver personalized AI-driven experiences at scale for a diverse customer base, including small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), self-employed individuals, freelancers, individual taxpayers, and tax […]
Getting the most out of VMware Horizon 8 with Amazon WorkSpaces Core
Amazon WorkSpaces Core is a managed virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) designed to work with third-party VDI. Organizations running on-premises VDI solutions face pressures to improve agility and reduce costs. Amazon WorkSpaces Core allows organizations using VMware Horizon 8 to combine their existing VDI management software with the security and reliability of the AWS Cloud. Join […]
Convert desktop apps to SaaS without refactoring using Amazon AppStream 2.0
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) come in many shapes and sizes. For some, software is their sole business, for others, it can be complimentary to their primary business. Nearly every ISV not born in the cloud, with a portfolio of traditional desktop applications, faces a common challenge: migrating to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or face a host of […]
Understand user access patterns and optimize Amazon WorkSpaces with Amazon CloudWatch
Are you looking to gain additional insight how end users are connecting to Amazon WorkSpaces instances? Would you like to track and report on IP addresses, platforms, and client versions being used to access WorkSpaces? Are you interested better understanding operating system resource utilization within the WorkSpace? Attend our re:Invent session EUC202, Monitor Amazon WorkSpaces […]
Migrating to Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise at scale on Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon Web Services offers two choices to run Microsoft Office productivity applications on Amazon WorkSpaces Family services. One option is to license Microsoft Office as part of a WorkSpaces application bundle. As of August 1, 2023, you have the option to bring Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise licenses to use on Amazon WorkSpaces services. Microsoft 365 […]
Improve security and efficiency managing developer desktops with Amazon WorkSpaces
The benefits of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for managing development, test, and other IT-oriented desktop environments have been long understood by many of our global customers. These organizations realize that centralizing the compute for technical users through virtual desktops enables them to stop provisioning expensive laptops, shipping them worldwide, and worrying about how to retrieve […]
Getting started with Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon WorkSpaces is a secure, fully managed, fully persistent desktop service. With Amazon WorkSpaces, you quickly provision cloud-based virtual desktops that users access from anywhere, on any supported device. As a managed service, you don’t have to worry about procuring and maintaining your own complex infrastructure and management stack. You can select from a curated […]
Genomics England improves its researcher experience with Amazon WorkSpaces
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in the United Kingdom, Genomics England is at the forefront of human genome research. The company began as a vessel to execute the UK Government’s bold plan to sequence 100,000 whole genomes and incorporate genomic medicine into routine care through the NHS, a feat they achieved in 2018 after just […]