Amazon WorkSpaces, the company’s virtual desktop computing environment introduced last fall at the AWS re:Invent conference, is today available to the public. Up until now, Amazon was testing the ...

Amazon is rolling out a new way for businesses to use its cloud-based virtual desktop service, Amazon WorkSpaces. Instead of paying monthly for access to an always-on WorkSpace you can connect to at ...

I’ve never really gotten my head around virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for higher ed. With Amazon’s announcement that they will now be offering the ability to rent a virtualized desktop, ...

The Amazon WorkSpaces Administration Guide states that you can use CloudWatch Metrics, CloudWatch Events and CloudTrail logs to monitor WorkSpaces. [Click on image for larger view.] CloudWatch Metrics ...

The Amazon Workspaces Thin Client is something of a kludge from a hardware perspective, but it can be made to link users to Cloud-centric services. While it’s a start of cost management, the user ...

This is my third article in a series on Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon's Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution. In my previous two articles (located here and here), I gave an overview of WorkSpaces and ...