Category: Amazon WorkSpaces

Get your caffeine fix for the day, it’s day 1 of AWS re:Invent! It is my first re:Invent and one valuable piece of advice I’ve received is, “Get a pair of good shoes,” because there is so much to see, learn and do. Let me give you a high-level overview of what to expect from […]

Getting started with AWS End User Computing Services is straightforward. We have an abundance of documentation covering how to get started with our services such as Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0 to enable customers to get off the ground quickly. On November 30th at AWS re:Invent 2022, join me in a chalk talk to […]

Customers often ask how they can gain insight into their Amazon WorkSpaces cost and usage. They’d like to query and visualize their cost and usage data for many reasons: Understand how many hours per month each individual Amazon WorkSpace is actually used. WorkSpaces with low or no usage at all can then be terminated based […]

Have you ever considered delivering your remote work environment through AWS? Did you know you that doing so will also optimize remote work security and productivity? Remote work comes with a number of challenges. Remote work delivered through AWS End User Computing (EUC) can improve the employee experience while addressing these challenges. At AWS re:Invent, […]

Amazon WorkSpaces now supports SAML 2.0 and certificate-based authentication (CBA). SAML 2.0 authentication enables a consistent and familiar experience for end users. It allows you to extend security features available from your SAML 2.0 identity provider (IdP) to WorkSpaces, including multi-factor authentication (MFA) and contextual access. With CBA, you provide end users with a single […]

Introduction With the recent shift to hybrid work, many IT organizations support large numbers of remote workers. This can be challenging, especially when deploying a cloud-based virtual desktop solution intended to maximize user productivity and enable seamless collaboration, regardless of network conditions. Since the initial launch of Amazon WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP), AWS continues to […]

Introduction AWS customers use Amazon WorkSpaces Family services to support a wide range of workloads from enabling remote workers with cloud-based VDI solutions to turning desktop applications into software as a service (SaaS) without refactoring. Recognizing that every AWS customer has unique requirements, AWS provides a broad portfolio of services and an exceptional customer experience, […]

Today, AWS End User Computing (EUC) announced a collaboration with HP Inc., an industry leading provider of reliable, high performance, thin client devices designed for cloud computing. The HP ThinPro and Windows 10 IoT thin clients are currently shipping and are qualified for use with Amazon WorkSpaces. HP is the first Thin Client OEM to […]

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 […]

Managing application deployment in large virtual desktop environments is time consuming and challenging. Join me at AWS re:Invent for my chalk talk, EUC 205 – Managing application deployment in an Amazon WorkSpaces environment where I discuss application deployment strategies, and explore ways to manage application deployment using Amazon WorkSpaces at scale with AWS Systems Manager. […]