Tag: WorkSpaces

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Updated June 2023 Customers want to use desktop services to deliver business-critical application and desktops to their end users at scale. Customers who have deployed a VMware 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Both Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkSpaces have a default security group to attach to new instances. In highly regulated and controlled environments, a single security group does not always meet security requirements of the organization. Centrally managed security policies require attaching multiple security groups that are controlled by the security or other team. In […]

Many companies that have adopted Amazon WorkSpaces seek out ways to provision desktops for their users efficiently. In this blog, I will show you how to build a serverless solution that uses directory group membership to automate WorkSpaces provisioning and de-provisioning using AWS Lambda. This allows companies to use their existing directory group approval workflows […]