Tag: Amazon WorkSpaces

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Today we are delighted to introduce the End User Computing (EUC) Lens , an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected whitepaper. Using the AWS Well-Architected Framework, the end user computing lens outlines steps for performing an AWS Well-Architected review. This empowers customers to assess and identify technical risks. The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a consistent approach […]

We are excited to share that Microsoft launched a public preview of Microsoft Teams optimization for Amazon WorkSpaces. This new capability significantly enhances the Teams experience for Amazon WorkSpaces users by optimizing audio and video streaming performance. A Strategic Collaboration AWS and Microsoft have worked closely together to bring this highly requested feature to WorkSpaces […]

Introduction As Windows 10 approaches end of life, end-user computing administrators need to migrate users to Windows 11 virtual desktops. Amazon WorkSpaces has launched self-service BYOL enablement for customers. This new feature ends the need to open Premium Support cases to enable BYOL. With BYOL enabled, Amazon WorkSpaces users are able to import custom Windows […]