Category: Desktop & Application Streaming

Customers want to use desktop services to deliver business-critical applications and desktops to their end users at scale. Our mission in the Amazon End User Computing (EUC) organization is designed to enable customers to securely get work done from anywhere and from any device. To help us deliver on this mission, we launched Amazon WorkSpaces […]

Amazon WorkSpaces has traditionally supported Active Directory domain-join desktops. Administrators manage these desktops through group policies and tools that run on site servers and branch servers. Custom image pipelines are built to install applications, push updates, and patch desktops at scale. IT administrators spend time to create and maintain custom images for different user personas. […]

This quarter we delivered updates to Amazon WorkSpaces across graphics performance and visual quality, productivity tools, and operational visibility. We also launched a new training program to let you build expertise with Amazon WorkSpaces. Here’s what you might have missed. Graphics Performance & Visual Quality Graphics G6, Gr6, and G6f Bundles What it does: GPU-accelerated virtual […]

IT teams managing hundreds or thousands of Amazon WorkSpaces face a critical challenge controlling costs while maintaining optimal user experience across their virtual desktop infrastructure. Without deep visibility into usage patterns, session data, and resource utilization, organizations struggle to identify cost optimization opportunities, spot inactive workspaces, and make informed decisions about AutoStop versus AlwaysOn configurations. […]

We are excited to announce the availability of new Amazon WorkSpaces G6, Gr6, and G6f Graphics bundles for WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Core. These bundles are built on Amazon EC2 G6, Gr6, and G6f instances respectively and powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs. When running representative graphics and ML inference workloads, the G6 family […]

We’re excited to announce a comprehensive digital enablement pathway for Amazon WorkSpaces: the AWS End User Computing Specialty Badge. Our AWS partners are integral in driving cloud innovation and delivering transformative solutions worldwide. But as End User Computing (EUC) evolves, your technical team needs the proper resources to validate and maintain expertise to effectively utilize […]

Mark your calendar for AWS re:Invent 2025, December 1-5 in Las Vegas! Discover how Amazon WorkSpaces is helping organizations transform their digital workplace through AI-powered automation, enhanced security features, and streamlined migration paths from legacy VDI solutions. Through keynotes, breakout sessions, and hands-on workshops, you’ll explore how enterprises are eliminating physical infrastructure costs, enhancing security […]

Our customers often tell us they need a tool to help build their autoscaling policies for Amazon WorkSpaces applications. Through smart capacity planning, organizations ensure sufficient resources during high-demand periods while avoiding excess provisioning. This approach improves reliability and performance while optimizing costs. In a previous blog: Amazon WorkSpaces Applications releases a simple pricing tool, […]

This blog walks you through how to use the WorkSpaces applications Simple Pricing Tool for Always-On and On-Demand fleets with visualization of usage patterns, common pricing examples, and education licensing. To learn about Elastic fleets, read AWS announces Availability of Elastic fleets with Amazon WorkSpaces applications and refer to the WorkSpaces applications pricing page. You […]

Amazon WorkSpaces was released in March 2014 and the primary north star of the service has remained a constant; secure, remote access for end users from anywhere on any device. As our customers business needs evolved, new services and features were introduced in the End User Computing family of services. This brought new ways of […]