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Tag: AWS End User Computing

Announcing support for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal with AWS Global Accelerator

Customer often ask how they can improve the experience for users connecting to Amazon WorkSpaces. End users may be connecting from long distances or over unreliable networks. WorkSpaces Personal now integrates with AWS Global Accelerator (AGA) to enhance WorkSpaces connection performance by optimizing streaming traffic through the AWS Global Network and edge locations. This feature […]

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Deploy the Cost Optimizer for Amazon WorkSpaces in a highly-regulated environment.

The Cost Optimizer for Amazon WorkSpaces is a tool that analyzes your Amazon WorkSpaces usage data and automatically converts the WorkSpace to the most cost-effective billing option depending on the individual usage. You can use the Cost Optimizer with a single account or with AWS Organizations across multiple accounts. Customers in highly-regulated environments often have limited or nopublic […]

Optimize costs and security with Amazon WorkSpaces Family services

Facing constant pressure to do more with less, IT organizations strive to reduce costs without sacrificing security. Please join Matt Olson and me at re:Invent 2024, where we present Chalk Talk session EUC205 “Optimize costs and security with Amazon WorkSpaces Family services”. During this session, we’ll explore how Amazon WorkSpaces Family services can help your […]

Conceptual diagram showing the secure tunnel between an Amazon WorkSpace and a Docker environment.

Enabling developers with Docker Desktop on Amazon WorkSpaces Personal

This post was co-written with Eli Aleyner, Head of Tech Alliances; Chris McLellan, Principal Product Manager; and Dan Stelzer, Sr Manager Partner GTM at Docker Inc. When we speak to customers, they tell us their developers have been unable to use Docker Desktop on Windows personal WorkSpaces due to the lack of support for nested […]

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Accelerate your data center exit with Amazon WorkSpaces Core

When we speak with customers they tell us that self-managing on-premise virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is expensive and limits IT agility. Additional concerns over potential VDI software price increases are causing organizations to accelerate plans to migrate to the cloud. This year at re:Invent 2024, we are looking forward to hosting EUC204, a Chalk Talk […]

Streamline automation and management of the Amazon WorkSpaces Family

Automating key processes is essential to managing the Amazon WorkSpaces Family of services effectively at scale. Proper use of automation maximizes efficiency and productivity for managing virtual desktop environments. In this hands-on builders’ session, you’ll learn how to optimize management of WorkSpaces Family services at scale through automation using scripts and other workflows. You will […]

When updates can’t wait, look to the cloud

Consistent, timely software updates are essential for the security of the enterprise. Too often, however, this unglamorous task – or should I say tax – is not executed with enough rigor. Time and again critical security fixes are not pushed with urgency, leaving businesses subject to damaging and costly exploits. This problem is compounded when the […]

Optimize Amazon WorkSpaces Personal Performance with Amazon CloudWatch

Are you looking to gain additional insight how end users are connecting to Amazon WorkSpaces Personal instances? Would you like to track and report on IP addresses, platforms, and client versions being used to access WorkSpaces Personal? Are you interested better understanding operating system resource utilization within the WorkSpace Personal? Even if you attended our […]

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Halliburton Landmark improves user experience with Amazon AppStream 2.0

Halliburton provides products and services to the energy industry. Landmark provides Exploration & Production professionals with configured enterprise software to maximize asset value. Landmark’s Geosciences Suite, a DecisionSpace® 365 solution, helps energy customers characterize the subsurface with clarity. Landmark delivers Geosciences Suite to users around the world as a cloud-native service via the cloud platform. […]

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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 […]