Desktop and Application Streaming

Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed, secure cloud desktop service. You can use Amazon WorkSpaces to provision either Windows or Linux desktops, and quickly scale to provide thousands of desktops to workers across the globe. With Amazon WorkSpaces, users can connect securely from anywhere using a software client or a supported web browser. Administrators have full control of the platforms […]

Our friends at Esri published a blog today showing how they’re using Amazon AppStream 2.0 to deliver ArcGIS Pro, a powerful desktop GIS application, to a browser for their training seminars. If you’d like to try this yourself, head over to our Getting started page to download a guide!

AWS is announcing that Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports custom script execution when a session starts, and when it stops. Customers have said that they want to configure their applications and streaming environments before the session starts, or perform clean-up tasks before the session stops. Previously, you would use Windows Group Policy scripts or scheduled […]

One of the most surprising things we discovered when we launched Amazon WorkSpaces was that the most popular client for users to connect to their Windows WorkSpaces was…Windows. Back in 2013 when we launched Amazon WorkSpaces we were being guided by AWS customers that they wanted Windows desktops so they could connect to them from mobile […]

Amazon WorkSpaces provides users with secure access to their desktop application environment. Key to be able to use applications effectively is the ability to save and access data – documents, spreadsheets, reports, interesting pictures of cats. WorkSpaces users can make use of Amazon WorkDocs Drive to store their data. You can access files stored in […]

Our colleagues at the AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog recently published two new blogs on Amazon AppStream 2.0. The first walks through Integrating Amazon AppStream 2.0 with your Learning Management System, and the second shows how Fife School Districts Use Amazon AppStream 2.0 to Provide Equitable Access. You can learn more at Amazon AppStream 2.0 – Education.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 provides a range of solutions for users to save and access data through their applications. These include Amazon WorkDocs, Google Drive for G Suite, OneDrive for Business, and Amazon S3 backed Home Folders. These solutions download files from their respective file storage provider when the files are opened in a streamed application. […]

Amazon AppStream 2.0 administrators can integrate their own user storage solutions with AppStream 2.0. To do this, they install a storage client on the image builder as they’re setting up their users’ application environment. Then they join their AppStream 2.0 fleets to their Active Directory domain, so that the storage client can sign in the […]

Amazon AppStream 2.0 supports identity federation to AppStream 2.0 stacks through Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0). You can use an identity provider (IdP) that supports SAML 2.0 to provide an onboarding flow for your AppStream 2.0 users. Examples of an IdP are Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) in Windows Server, Ping One […]

AppStream 2.0 customers have told us that they appreciate the ability to scale their fleets based on the user demand. In AppStream 2.0, you can scale your application streaming for any number of users across the globe without purchasing, provisioning, and operating on-premises hardware or infrastructure. You pay only for the streaming resources that you […]