Category: Technical How-to

A common use case for Amazon AppStream 2.0 is streaming resource-intensive applications that perform long-running calculations or simulations. If the session ends while the simulation is running, user productivity and satisfaction suffer. Consider the following scenario: your users run simulations that normally take three hours to complete. To control costs, you configure your AppStream 2.0 […]

Customers want to use desktop services to deliver business-critical applications and desktops to their end users at scale. Our mission in the Amazon End User Computing (EUC) organization is designed to enable customers to securely get work done from anywhere and from any device. To help us deliver on this mission, we launched Amazon WorkSpaces […]

With Amazon AppStream 2.0, applications run securely in the cloud, isolated from end users’ local machines. In some scenarios, customers require interaction between remote and local applications. For example, consider a hosted application that exports data to an external program, such as a spreadsheet or PDF application that is installed and licensed on a local […]

The Leostream Platform offers a variety of components that provide an intuitive way for remote end users to securely access NICE DCV servers. The Leostream platform consolidates the IT management of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, as well as prioritizes the security posture of your deployment. Through its interface, end users visualize their resources through a high-performance […]

Customers with strict compliance requirements such as financial industries, healthcare, and government sectors use End User Compute (EUC) solutions to regulate access and centralize tooling. For these organizations, users are often required to connect to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to access the private corporate network. In this blog, I explain how users with such […]

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, […]

When an Amazon AppStream 2.0 instance session is complete, the instance is ended. This means all application logs used in the session are lost. But what if you must persist your application logs? This post shows you how to persist your application logs by streaming them in real-time to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose using Kinesis […]

In this blog, I discuss the benefits of using certificate-based authentication (CBA) for Amazon AppStream 2.0. I give an overview of the short-lived certificate mode offered by AWS Private Certificate Authority and why it is important to this use mode. Also, I walk you through the steps to configure CBA for Amazon AppStream 2.0. Amazon […]

This blog posts shows you how to use Amazon AppStream 2.0 application entitlements with OneLogin for your AppStream 2.0 stacks. Customers use Amazon AppStream 2.0 to manage applications centrally, and stream them to their end users. With application entitlements, you can control access to specific applications in the AppStream 2.0 application catalog based on SAML […]

In this blog, you walk through configuring a NICE DCV Connection Gateway to provide secure access sessions managed by NICE DCV Session Manager. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol. DCV provides a secure way to deliver remote desktops and application streaming through a centralized DCV Connection Gateway to any device. This versatile streaming […]