Tag: desktop and application streaming

Today, organizations have challenges with their traditional virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Scalability, performance, and cost are top of mind in the discussion. The migration to cloud native AWS End User Computing (EUC) solutions provide options to leverage the cloud benefits and align with your organization’s requirement. Amazon AppStream 2.0 offers capabilities for your end users […]

Remote and hybrid work are here to stay. That means IT organizations must enable their modern workforce for the long term. If you are interested in giving end users access to their desktops and applications from anywhere, using any device, while keeping costs low, join us at re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas. We are hosting […]

Amazon WorkSpaces provides different options to monitor the service usage for your workload. These available metrics offer different ways to monitor your WorkSpaces connections. These metrics are all emitted at the service level, so granular in-session metrics are not available. With WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) adopting NICE DCV as its desktop streaming mechanism, customers unlock […]

This post is co-authored by Salil Sinai Cuncoliencar, Staff Software Engineer at Intuit and Manoj Kale and Upendra V at AWS. Through customizing the Amazon AppStream 2.0 experience, Intuit simplifies their customers end user experience and migration from QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online. In this blog post we share how Intuit successfully migrated legacy Intuit […]

As the demand for applications grow, the need to optimize and control the cost of Amazon AppStream 2.0 Fleet resources evolves. Through automation of AWS serverless services, you can control the cost of AppStream 2.0 Fleets. In this blog I will discuss how to use a billing alarm to get an alert when AppStream cost […]

February 19, 2024: This blog post was updated with a link to Microsoft Product Terms, and to reflect the addition of G3/G5 licenses. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon WorkSpaces services as their end-user computing service to provide secure, scalable, and cost-effective virtual desktops with all the tools required for users to do their […]

Fully managed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions have become increasingly popular in recent years. This is due to their ability to provide flexible and efficient access to remote desktop environments from anywhere. Using a managed service reduces the burden of CAPEX risks, maintenance, and costly, lengthy hardware upgrades. AWS offers fully managed End User Computing […]

As the demand for technology-based jobs continues to grow, the need for career and technical education (CTE) as well as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) based curriculum continues to evolve in the classroom to prepare students for their careers. In addition to making improvements in classroom curriculum, K12 organizations have been seeking alternative methods […]

This blog post walks you through creating an event driven solution with AWS Lambda to change your AppStream 2.0 auto scaling policy based on time of day. With Amazon AppStream 2.0’s Fleet Auto Scaling capabilities you can adjust the size of your AppStream 2.0 fleet automatically to match user demand. However, with certain usage patterns, […]

When using system authentication, Windows-based NICE DCV servers delegate client authentication to the underlying operating system. Upon authentication, DCV validates the DCV permissions, which specify the users that are allowed to access the session stream and the features they can use. Dynamically setting DCV session permissions allows administrators to automate session permissions based on specific […]