Desktop and Application Streaming
Building for business continuity with Amazon WorkSpaces and AWS Directory Services
The number of organizations moving to decentralized and remote working models keeps growing year over year. Customers chose Amazon WorkSpaces as the virtual desktop solution for their organizations, often for their entire employee population. With a remote and disperse working force, organizations reduce their real estate costs significantly while maintaining the same or even higher […]
Ingest and visualize Amazon AppStream 2.0 usage reports in Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon AppStream 2.0 provides detailed usage reports that are generated daily and delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket. These reports include information including user ID, session duration, and client IP address. For a complete list of the report fields, review AppStream 2.0 usage report fields. AppStream 2.0 provides usage reports in CSV format. You can […]
New Amazon WorkSpaces features drive customer choice and flexibility
No two customers are alike. This reality is built into how we think about the AWS End User Computing (EUC) category. AWS EUC offers a set of services that help organizations securely deliver desktops and applications to employees in any supported AWS Region. In practice, this has meant that each organization employs their own unique […]
Use the EUC Toolkit to manage Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkSpaces
Administrators can reduce self-managed VDI operational overhead by using End User Computing (EUC) managed services. Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkSpaces are fully managed, application, and desktop virtualization services. These services have APIs to programmatically manage and maintain the workload. The EUC Toolkit is an open-sourced tool to add additional functionality using the service-related public […]
Automatically attach additional security groups to Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkSpaces
Both Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkSpaces have a default security group to attach to new instances. In highly regulated and controlled environments, a single security group does not always meet security requirements of the organization. Centrally managed security policies require attaching multiple security groups that are controlled by the security or other team. In […]
How Verint Uses Amazon WorkSpaces Web to Securely Access Internal Resources
Amazon WorkSpaces Web is a low-cost, fully managed, secure browser built to facilitate secure access to internal websites and software as a service (SaaS) applications from existing web browsers, without the administrative burden of appliances or specialized client software. Protect internal content with enterprise controls, while providing access to all the web-based productivity tools users […]
Using Python to power an AppStream 2.0 Linux Imaging Assistant GUI
In this blog, we show you how to add, launch, and use a graphical Imaging Assistant for Amazon AppStream 2.0 Linux. With Amazon AppStream 2.0 Linux application streaming, you can stream Linux applications and desktops to your users, and greatly lower the total streaming costs. You can use the Linux command line to use the […]
Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager (Amazon WAM) is retiring
Retiring Amazon WAM Since launching Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager in 2015, we have accelerated our pace of innovation in AWS End User Computing (EUC). We have launched new services, added additional features, and expanded our global community of partners. Our customers tell us that they need application management solutions that can scale to support all […]
Understand end-user access to Amazon WorkSpaces with Amazon CloudWatch
Customers often ask how to gain additional insights into how their users are connecting to WorkSpaces. In addition, customers want to know environments that do not meet the required client supported version. In a previous post, to analyze access patterns in Amazon WorkSpaces, we highlighted how this can be accomplished using Amazon QuickSight. This can […]
Create a notification for changes to Amazon WorkSpaces gateway ranges
From time to time, the Amazon WorkSpaces service will add additional IP ranges to the service’s streaming gateways. This provides additional capacity to customers to give a first-rate streaming experience. When changes like this are staged, and deployed, we alert customers via email and the Personal Health Dashboard. A common customer ask is for a […]

