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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Amazon Web Services’ hosted virtual desktops have become generally available, priced from US$35, but the company and its competitors have a lot of hurdles to overcome before this sort of technology is ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a compact computer that workers can use to access cloud-based virtual desktops. A virtual desktop is a workstation hosted in a ...

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 ...

Amazon made the public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud a major force in business IT with its Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now, the retail giant is betting that it can do the same with its new ...

For years I’ve been complaining about the many challenges facing small and medium sized companies who really want to migrate all their applications to the cloud. Performance is one factor, and that’s ...

With Alexa in several products across Amazon.com Inc.’s portfolio, from streaming sticks to smart speakers, TVs and home hubs, accessible end-user computing hardware has evidently been one of the ...

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 ...