Desktop and Application Streaming
AWS recognized as a Leader in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service
When I talk to IT leaders responsible for end-user computing, they tell me about the pressure they face to reduce costs, maintain a strong security posture, and deliver an excellent end-user experience, often across a global hybrid workforce. As I’ve reiterated many times while working on AWS End User Computing (EUC) for nearly a decade, […]
Simplify certificate-based authentication for AppStream 2.0 and WorkSpaces with AWS Private CA Connector for Active Directory
In this post, we explain how the AWS Private CA Connector for Active Directory simplifies and accelerates the configuration of certificate-based authentication (CBA) for Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkSpaces. We provide an overview of AWS Private Certificate Authority and Active Directory Certificate Services in this context. We discuss the benefits of using the AWS […]
Analyze web browsing activities for Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser
Customers in regulated industries like the public sector, healthcare, and financial services often need to meet compliance and audit requirements. This involves storing, archiving, and analyzing user’s browsing trends, such as website visits and session times. Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser is a fully managed, remote enterprise browser that allows users to access internal websites and […]
Utilizing CloudWatch Internet Monitor with Amazon WorkSpaces Personal
At AWS re:Invent 2022, AWS launched Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, which includes integrations with Amazon WorkSpaces Personal. After you associate your WorkSpaces with Internet Monitor, you can identify potential performance and internet connection issues of your users to their WorkSpaces. The service provides you with IP prefixes and ASN (typically, the internet service provider or […]
Enhanced management for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal with ControlUp
In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses are increasingly adopting cloud-based desktops to provide their employees with flexible and secure work environments, regardless of their location. With distributed work environments and complex technology stacks, customers need comprehensive observability solutions to monitor, manage and optimize their digital infrastructure and applications effectively. ControlUp offers a rich set of […]
Announcing native Entra ID and Intune support for Amazon WorkSpaces
At AWS, we love to give our customers the flexibility to choose the best virtual desktop solution for their specific needs through a broad range of infrastructure, operating system, and productivity application options. Today, we are expanding customer choice with the announcement of Microsoft Entra ID and Intune integration with Amazon WorkSpaces Personal. With this […]
New Omnissa Horizon 8 features supported by Amazon WorkSpaces Core
Omnissa, formerly VMware, announced new features for Horizon 8 in version 2406. With this announcement, Horizon 8 virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) customers can take advantage of these features using Amazon WorkSpaces Core: Reduce costs, improve security, and optimize user productivity with new automated provisioning enhancements and power management features. With this announcement, you can reduce […]
Citrix announces general availability of Citrix DaaS on Amazon WorkSpaces Core
Introduction With Citrix DaaS on Amazon WorkSpaces Core moving from public tech preview to general availability (GA), you can extend your on-premises Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to the highly scalable AWS Cloud—helping reduce costs, improve security, and optimize user productivity. Citrix DaaS on WorkSpaces Core provides the flexibility to integrate with AWS infrastructure by simplifying […]
Accessing AWS resources using AWS IAM Roles Anywhere from Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal provides a secure, persistent desktop computing environment in the cloud. Customers often ask if there is a method to configure WorkSpaces to use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles to issue temporary credentials. In this blog, we explain how you can configure WorkSpaces to use AWS IAM Roles Anywhere and enable […]
Automating Foundational NICE DCV Infrastructure
In this blog, learn how to accelerate a foundational cloud deployment of NICE DCV running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). Customers use DCV to visualize remote workloads running on Amazon EC2 on lower powered client machines. The provided AWS CDKs cover deploying the DCV Connection Gateway […]