End User Computing blog

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  • 20 Dec 2023

    Collaborative Neuron Tracing on AWS

    Konrad Rokicki
    HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia has an integrated team of lab scientists and tool-builders who pursue a small number of scientific questions with potential for transformative impact. To drive science forward, we share our methods, results, and tools with the scientific community. Introduction To study how the brain works, researchers often begin with [...]
  • 26 Nov 2023

    Seamless and secure end-user computing at Intuit with Amazon WorkSpaces

    Daniel Cil, Aqsa Mughees
    About Intuit Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for 100 million customers with Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp. Intuit’s range of interconnected products and services deliver personalized AI-driven experiences at scale for a diverse customer base, including small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), self-employed individuals, freelancers, individual taxpayers, and tax [...]
  • 15 Nov 2023

    Genomics England improves its researcher experience with Amazon WorkSpaces

    Alan Patterson
    Founded in 2013 and headquartered in the United Kingdom, Genomics England is at the forefront of human genome research. The company began as a vessel to execute the UK Government’s bold plan to sequence 100,000 whole genomes and incorporate genomic medicine into routine care through the NHS, a feat they achieved in 2018 after just [...]

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  • Kenji Kaname, Shiori Hamano, Hiroki Mori, 02/07/2025
    Having the correct number of GPU workstations that are secure, cost efficient, and high-performance for video editing and film production can be a challenge. With Amazon AppStream 2.0, using the multi-session fleet feature, it doesn’t have to be. The challenges of securing GPUs for video editing and CG/VFX production In professional video editing and computer [...]
  • Dave Jaskie, Henry Ipince, Ross Green, 01/22/2025
    The Amazon WorkSpaces client end of life (EOL) policy is applicable to major and minor versions of WorkSpaces clients for WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Pools. In this post, I will help you gain insights into your Amazon WorkSpaces clients and help you prepare for client upgrades where needed. The lifecycle of a WorkSpaces client version [...]
  • Brian Sheppard, John Tyndall, 12/20/2024
    Customers often ask how they can visually gain granular insights into their Amazon WorkSpaces Personal utilization (billable hours used, running mode, bundle type, AWS Regions). Capturing and visualizing this data can provide several key benefits: Understand monthly billable hours for each WorkSpace to identify underutilized instances you can terminate to optimize costs. Determine the appropriate [...]
  • Dave Jaskie, Gekai Zou, hkotha, Phil Persson, 12/20/2024
    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 [...]
  • Robert Fountain, Dave Jaskie, 11/12/2024
    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 [...]
  • Rey Wang, 11/05/2024
    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 [...]
  • Abhi Karode, Miles Scott, 11/04/2024
    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 [...]
  • Phil Persson, Gigi Boehringer, 10/25/2024
    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 [...]
  • Justin Grego, 10/18/2024
    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 [...]
  • Brett Taylor, 10/17/2024
    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 [...]
  • Dave Jaskie, 10/11/2024
    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 [...]
  • Muneer Mirza, 10/10/2024
    I love this time of the year. I enjoy the thought of spending time with family and friends during the holiday season, and I enjoy the thought of spending time with my EUC colleagues at AWS re:Invent. One of the things I enjoy most about re:Invent is hearing customers talk about their journey using AWS [...]
  • Melissa Stein, 10/10/2024
    As an IT leader, you need to make sure your contact center agents are outfitted with the applications and devices they need to offer great customer service. But this is easier said than done when a high turnover workforce has access to critical company information and your IT department faces constant pressure to do more [...]