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We’re launching the next chapter of our digital enablement program for Amazon WorkSpaces: the Amazon WorkSpaces Migrations Badge. Organizations are increasingly moving from on-premises VDI to the cloud. Your technical team needs the right expertise to plan, execute, and optimize these transitions for customers. The Migrations Badge validates your team’s ability to move Citrix, Omnissa […]

Today, we are announcing the general availability of providing AI agents access to Amazon WorkSpaces Applications. Agents can now securely access and operate desktop applications through managed WorkSpaces environments. Many enterprises run core business processes on desktop applications that lack modern APIs, which creates a last-mile challenge: the workflows most worth automating are the ones […]

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. […]

Managing a fleet of virtual desktops means staying ahead of performance issues before they become help desk tickets. Whether you are running Amazon WorkSpaces personal or Amazon WorkSpaces applications, your administrators need clear, actionable visibility into how those environments are performing and how users are connecting. Building Amazon CloudWatch dashboards from scratch is straightforward, but […]

We have got some exciting news to share: Microsoft Teams optimization for Amazon WorkSpaces is now generally available to all customers. If you’ve been looking for a way to make virtual meetings smoother and more reliable in your WorkSpaces environment, Microsoft Teams optimization provides this capability. From Public Preview to General Availability Back in September […]

Amazon DCV now supports Amazon EC2 Mac instances powered by Apple silicon, giving you high‑performance remote access to macOS workloads in the cloud. With this launch, you can connect to your EC2 Mac instances using the same streaming protocol that powers remote access across Amazon WorkSpaces. Stream a Mac desktop at up to 4K resolution […]

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, […]

In today’s security-conscious world, organizations are implementing strong authentication methods for applications running inside virtual desktop environments. A common challenge is enabling users to leverage their local security keys and biometric devices with applications running inside a remote desktop session. Amazon WorkSpaces now addresses this challenge with WebAuthn redirection, allowing users to seamlessly use their […]