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Amazon WorkSpaces

Access your desktop anywhere, anytime, from any device

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Amazon WorkSpaces

Access your desktop anywhere, anytime, from any device

Create a Free Account

Manage in Console

Download the WorkSpaces Client

Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution. You can use Amazon WorkSpaces to provision either Windows or Linux desktops in just a few minutes and quickly scale to provide thousands of desktops to workers across the globe. You can pay either monthly or hourly, just for the WorkSpaces you launch, which helps you save money when compared to traditional desktops and on-premises VDI solutions. Amazon WorkSpaces helps you eliminate the complexity in managing hardware inventory, OS versions and patches, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which helps simplify your desktop delivery strategy. With Amazon WorkSpaces, your users get a fast, responsive desktop of their choice that they can access anywhere, anytime, from any supported device.

Empower your remote workforce and react quickly to changing conditions with access to applications and desktops from anywhere.

Strengthen security by storing user data on Amazon Web Services instead of vulnerable endpoint devices.

Optimize costs with on-demand, pay-as-you-go scaling with a range of compute, memory, and storage options.

Reduce downtime with fully managed application delivery and highly reliable Amazon Web Services infrastructure designed for 99.9% uptime.

Empower your remote workforce and react quickly to changing conditions with access to applications and desktops from anywhere.

Strengthen security by storing user data on Amazon Web Services instead of vulnerable endpoint devices.

Optimize costs with on-demand, pay-as-you-go scaling with a range of compute, memory, and storage options.

Reduce downtime with fully managed application delivery and highly reliable Amazon Web Services infrastructure designed for 99.9% uptime.

Benefits

Simplify Desktop Delivery

Amazon WorkSpaces helps you eliminate many administrative tasks associated with managing your desktop lifecycle including provisioning, deploying, maintaining, and recycling desktops. There is less hardware inventory to manage and no need for complex virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments that don’t scale.

Reduce Costs

Amazon WorkSpaces eliminates the need to over-buy desktop and laptop resources by providing on-demand access to cloud desktops that include a range of compute, memory, and storage resources to meet your users' performance needs.

Control Your Desktop Resources

Amazon WorkSpaces offers a range of CPU, memory, and solid-state storage bundle configurations that can be dynamically modified so you have the right resources for your applications. You don’t have to waste time trying to predict how many desktops you need or what configuration those desktops should be, helping you reduce costs and eliminate the need to over-buy hardware.

Keep Your Data Secure

Amazon WorkSpaces is deployed within an Amazon Virtual Private Network (VPC), provide each user with access to persistent, encrypted storage volumes in the Amazon Web Services Cloud, and integrate with Amazon Key Management Service (KMS). No user data is stored on the local device. This helps improve the security of user data and reduces your overall risk surface area.

Flexible Desktop OS Deployment

Amazon WorkSpaces comes with a Windows 10 or Amazon Linux 2 desktop experience. Or you can bring your own Windows 10 desktops and run them on Amazon WorkSpaces, and remain license compliant. In addition, you can choose from a number of productivity application bundles with your WorkSpaces.

Deliver Desktops to Multiple Devices

Your users can access their Amazon WorkSpaces from any supported device, including Windows and Mac computers, Chromebooks, iPads, Fire tablets, Android tablets and through Chrome or Firefox web browsers. Once your WorkSpace is provisioned just download the client to access it from the device of your choice.

Centrally Manage & Scale Your Global Desktop Deployment

Amazon WorkSpaces is available in 13 Amazon Web Services Regions and provides access to high performance cloud desktops wherever your teams get work done. You can manage a global deployment of many thousands of WorkSpaces from the Amazon Web Services console. And you can rapidly provision and de-provision desktops as the needs of your workforce change.

Use Your Existing Directory

Amazon WorkSpaces securely integrates with your existing corporate directory, including Microsoft Active Directory, as well as multi-factor authentication tools so that your users can easily access company resources. You can manage user access control through the use of IP access control groups, which makes it easy to control and manage user access to their WorkSpaces using your existing tools.

Benefits

Simplify Desktop Delivery

Reduce Costs

Control Your Desktop Resources

Keep Your Data Secure

Flexible Desktop OS Deployment

Deliver Desktops to Multiple Devices

Centrally Manage & Scale Your Global Desktop Deployment

Use Your Existing Directory

How It Works

Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop virtualization service for Windows and Linux that enables you to access resources from any supported device.

How It Works

Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop virtualization service for Windows and Linux that enables you to access resources from any supported device.

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Use Cases

Enable Bring Your Own Device

To deliver on the promise of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives, IT must ensure employees can easily and securely access their applications and data across a large and constantly changing number of devices. Amazon WorkSpaces lets you run a cloud desktop directly on a wide range of devices like PC, Mac, iPad, Kindle Fire, Android tablet, Chromebook, and web browsers like Firefox, and Chrome. This gives you the tools to deliver a secure, responsive desktop experience that will delight your users and help make your BYOD initiative a reality.

Provide Secure Cloud Desktops for Remote, Mobile, & Contract Employees

The rapid growth of remote and mobile workers is placing pressure on IT to provide fast, easy access to corporate applications and data from the device of their choice. Amazon WorkSpaces helps mobile and remote employees access the applications users need by delivering a cloud desktop accessible anywhere with an internet connection using any supported device.

Quickly Provision Persistent Desktops for Classroom & Lab Settings

Amazon WorkSpaces provides a full, persistent desktop that students can use throughout their education while Amazon AppStream 2.0 lets course instructors quickly deliver specific applications for the unique needs for their class. Used together, you can easily build the learning environment your students need and ensure students have what they need for your class from day one.

Rapidly Provision & Scale Desktops for Software Test & Development

Developers and test teams need access to a secure, high-performance WorkSpace for completing tasks without the expense and inventory that comes with a lot of over-provisioned physical hardware. You can provision Amazon WorkSpaces that includes all the tools your developers need to build applications quickly. Your source code is not stored on developers’ devices helping ensure the safety of your intellectual property.

Rapid Integration During Mergers & Acquisitions

Companies going through M&A activity must support quickly on-boarding or off-loading large numbers of employees with fast, easy, secure access to company applications and data. They must do so across a diverse set of devices without spending much money or going through lengthy complex integrations. With Amazon WorkSpaces, IT teams quickly can provision and decommission secure WorkSpaces to keep up with changing organizational structures.