Announcing the Amazon DCV Access Console as Open Source

We are pleased to announce that the Amazon DCV Access Console is now available as open source. This release unlocks the capability for builders to integrate custom frameworks into the DCV Access Console components. By using the open-source DCV Access Console on GitHub, you now have the opportunity to tailor the components to meet your workload’s specific requirements.

The DCV Access Console is a web-based solution that allows administrators and end users to manage their DCV sessions in a centralized interface. For customers who do not need additional customization, the DCV Access Console will continue to be available as a packaged commercial build on the DCV downloads page.

This feature is available at no additional cost for both AWS and on-premises Amazon DCV deployments.

What’s new

The DCV Access Console was previously only available as a commercial build, packaged and released on the DCV downloads page. While the commercial build offers some customizations, like custom branding, it does not allow builders to integrate custom workflows into its core components. By using the open source DCV Access Console as a building block, you can customize any of the core components. For example, you may customize the end user and administrator web interface, implement custom orchestration workflows, and integrate your own OAuth 2.0 provider, such as Amazon Cognito.

These components are used with the proprietary DCV protocol, DCV Session Manager, and DCV client for a complete streaming solution.

Conclusion

In this blog, we introduced the DCV Access Console open source GitHub repository. To get started with the DCV Access Console, refer to our previous blog post. If you are interested in trying Amazon DCV on-premises, you may reach out to our DCV distributor network. For additional resources, please visit our Amazon DCV administrator guide, DCV Access Console administrator guide, and the DCV Session Manager documentation.

Andrew came to AWS in 2019 from a large datacenter environment where he specialized in VMware, Cisco UCS, and automation. Through his time at AWS, he developed a passion for visualization workloads. In 2022, he started his current role as a Developer Advocate for DCV.