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Tag: WorkSpaces
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 […]
Best practices for successful BYOL image creation for Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon WorkSpaces Family solutions provide the right virtual desktop solution for varied worker types, from any location. Amazon WorkSpaces is a flexible virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution that lets you quickly and easily deploy cloud-based desktops. Amazon WorkSpaces Core is designed to work with third-party VDI solutions, allowing them to utilize WorkSpaces fully managed virtual […]
Getting Started with Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client
Increasingly, organizations are considering ways to move away from the deployment and management of traditional thick client endpoints. Factors such as cost, increased security, and a desire for flexibility and simplified management are key drivers for a growing number of customers. Additionally, with the advent of End User Computing services in the cloud, organizations are […]
Migrating an on-premises VDI solution to AWS using Amazon WorkSpaces Core
I look forward to presenting AWS End User Computing Innovation Day 2023 on September 13, 2023. In my session, I will discuss migrating VDI solutions from on-premises to AWS with Amazon WorkSpaces Core. As a refresher, WorkSpaces Core provides cloud-based, fully managed virtual desktop infrastructure designed to work with third-party VDI management solutions. WorkSpaces Core […]
Build an enterprise cost and usage dashboard for Amazon WorkSpaces
Customers often ask how they can gain insight into their Amazon WorkSpaces cost and usage. They’d like to query and visualize their cost and usage data for many reasons: Understand how many hours per month each individual Amazon WorkSpace is actually used. WorkSpaces with low or no usage at all can then be terminated based […]
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: 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 […]
Extending Omnissa Horizon to Amazon WorkSpaces Core
Updated October 2024 Customers want to use desktop services to deliver business-critical application and desktops to their end users at scale. Customers who have deployed a Omnissa Horizon 8 or newer ask how Amazon Web Services (AWS) can extend capabilities, without having to buy additional hardware. The use cases might be temporary workers, extending an […]
Agency Systems deploys fully managed DaaS technology to improve customer experience
For the past 30 years, Agency Systems has been providing insurance agencies of all sizes with reliable, full-featured insurance agency management software solutions for commercial and personal lines, retail agencies, brokers, and general agencies. Cloud Migration In 2014, Agency Systems began their journey to adopt and embrace cloud-based technologies. Cloud migration began with rebuilding their […]
New Amazon WorkSpaces features drive customer choice and flexibility
No two customers are alike. This reality is built into how we think about the AWS End User Computing (EUC) category. AWS EUC offers a set of services that help organizations securely deliver desktops and applications to employees in any supported AWS Region. In practice, this has meant that each organization employs their own unique […]