Desktop and Application Streaming

Category: Management Tools

Monitor and automate AWS End User Computing (EUC) with AWS Chatbot

The blogpost teaches you how to deploy AWS Chatbot to your AWS account using the CloudFormation template. You learn how to configure the Chatbot to monitor and automate your AWS End User Compute (EUC) deployments. Customers are always looking at new ways to interact with systems. Amazon EUC administrators may need to be notified on […]

AWS EUC Washington DC Summit: Using Amazon CloudWatch to analyze user access to Amazon WorkSpaces

Are you looking to gain additional insight how your users are connecting to Amazon WorkSpaces? Would you like to track and report on IP addresses, platforms, and client versions being used to access Amazon WorkSpaces? Join us in Washington DC on June 8 at 9:30 AM EDT for our builders session EUC202. In this session, […]

How SoFi manages Amazon WorkSpaces at scale using AWS Systems Manager

This blog post walks through how SoFi, a financial technology company that provides a range of financial products and services, scale their growing business needs with AWS services. SoFi uses Amazon WorkSpaces to scale out their Desktop as a Service solution, and improve visibility and control of their environment with AWS Systems Manager. The SoFi […]

Announcing updates to NICE DCV AWS CloudFormation Templates

AWS customers looking to experience the NICE DCV streaming protocol can now utilize the latest DCV AWS CloudFormation template. This template is intended for proof-of-concepts and deploys a single Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance preconfigured with DCV server ready to accept connections. This is an automated way to gain firsthand experience of the DCV high-performance […]

Using Amazon CloudWatch to prepare for WSP migration of Amazon WorkSpaces

If you are to take advantage of the WSPv2 feature and performance enhancements, you must validate that your end users are connected with a supported client. Amazon WorkSpaces using PCoIP can be converted to WSP using the modify protocol API. WorkSpaces that already use WSP will be updated during API initiated reboots. In this walkthrough, […]

Automate Amazon WorkSpaces custom images across AWS Regions

Customers ask how they can automate copying Amazon WorkSpaces custom images between AWS Regions. Common use cases for synchronizing custom Amazon WorkSpaces images between Regions include: Consistency for multi-Region deployments: Multi-region deployments of Amazon WorkSpaces allow WorkSpaces to be deployed for user who need low-latency connection to a specific geographic area. One custom image with […]

Anomaly Detection in Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution that runs on AWS. Our customers have been deploying WorkSpaces to provide scalable end user computing to their users regardless of work location. Since the launch of WSP, additional capabilities such as USB and smart card support have enabled additional workloads to benefit from moving […]

DXC Technology creates DevSecOps and CI/CD for mainframe and Java using Amazon AppStream 2.0

DXC Technology is a global IT service leader providing end-to-end IT services on digital transformation to businesses and governments.  DXC is active in the areas of mainframe technology transformation to help customer move to Agile and DevSecOps practices using the cloud. DXC created an in-house DevSecOps platform at a global insurer for IBM Z series mainframe development. […]

Enabling Identity Federation with Shibboleth and Amazon AppStream 2.0

Shibboleth is an open-source project that provides single sign-on capabilities and identity federation solution used by research and education communities worldwide. If you are already using Shibboleth IdP, this post shows you how to configure it for Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) identity federation with Amazon AppStream 2.0. Overview The AppStream 2.0 SAML […]

Creating custom logging and Amazon CloudWatch alerting in Amazon AppStream 2.0

Amazon AppStream 2.0 fleet instances are ephemeral. Because of this, application event logs are lost with the instance once the streaming session ends. If your AppStream 2.0 users have an issue with an application during their streaming session, it can be difficult to troubleshoot without detailed log data. Customers often ask how to configure alarms […]