Desktop and Application Streaming
Tag: AWS End User Computing
Advancing business continuity with Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience
Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience offers cost-effective, easy-to-manage business continuity solutions with less than 30-minute recovery time objective (RTO) using WorkSpaces standby configuration. In this article, I describe the key concepts to set up Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience, including the WorkSpaces standby configuration with cross-Region redirection, configuring DNS service and DNS routing policies, and notifying WorkSpaces […]
AWS EUC @re:Invent: Streamlining log-on experience for Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0
Customer experience is top of mind and one of our top priorities. Creating a good customer experience also means balancing user experience and maintaining a strong security posture. Maintaining a high security bar is especially important while managing a hybrid workforce. One key blocker to a great customer experience is having to sign on into […]
AWS EUC @re:Invent: No refactoring required: Turning legacy applications into SaaS
Are you looking to speed up the transformation of your software delivery model while creating consistent recurring streams of revenue through software subscription services? Do you have legacy applications that you are looking to move to a Software as a Service model (SaaS)? Old code is difficult to understand. It is even harder without documentation. […]
AWS EUC @re:Invent: Best practices for migrating on-premises VDI workloads to the cloud
Organizations have used virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to protect their data for decades, creating a significant on-premises footprint of legacy hardware and software. Recent shifts toward remote work environments have accelerated the growth of VDI and also created an affinity for cloud-based virtual desktop solutions or desktop as a service (DaaS). Join me in the […]
AWS EUC @re:Invent: Choosing an Amazon AppStream 2.0 fleet to reduce costs & optimize experience
As a result of the global pandemic, remote and hybrid work is now commonplace and are here to stay. That means IT organizations are faced with the challenge of enabling their modern workforce for the long term. If you are interested in giving your end users access to their desktops and applications from anywhere, while […]
AWS EUC @re:Invent: Managing application deployment in an Amazon WorkSpaces environment
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. […]
AWS EUC @re:Invent: Getting Started with Amazon WorkSpaces
At re:Invent 2022, we are hosting a hands-on workshop EUC 306: Getting started with Amazon WorkSpaces. In this workshop, you learn how to deploy cloud desktops using Amazon WorkSpaces. Amazon WorkSpaces is a secure, fully managed, fully persistent desktop computing service. With Amazon WorkSpaces, you can quickly provision cloud-based Windows and Linux virtual desktops. With […]
AWS EUC @re:Invent: Building a secure end user computing environment for power users
Power users, like developers and data scientists, often need the latest and greatest hardware to help test their applications and to remain productive. At AWS re:Invent 2022, join me and my AWS team for our builder session, EUC311. We explore ways to use Amazon WorkSpaces to help keep your power-user employees on the most up-to-date […]
What AWS End User Computing is brewing for re:Invent 2022
View the highlights for AWS EUC @re:Invent 2022 day 1, day 2, day 3, and day 4. It’s that time of year again! AWS re:Invent is right around the corner, and whether you’re attending the event or not, we want to make sure you know of all the opportunities to learn about ways to implement […]
Visualizing AppStream 2.0 session latency metrics using AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis Data Stream and Amazon OpenSearch Service
Authors: Peter Fergus (Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, ProdApps) & Mohamed Gamil (Cloud Support Engineer, Serverless) Customers require confirmation that end users meet network RTT requirements to ensure the best user experience when connecting to AppStream 2.0 sessions. Latency metrics are a useful means of confirming that the intermediate network is within the recommended latency thresholds […]