Amazon Workspaces enables IT administrators to grant remote access to cloud applications, services, and files on a variety of end-user devices. AWS manages the desktop infrastructure as a service, eliminating the complexity, high cost, and security challenges involved in managing local VDI systems.
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The IT team configures Amazon WorkSpaces via the AWS console, and end users connect to their workspaces from any supported device. Administrators assign each user a workstation bundle, which defines compute resources, storage, and applications. Based on each bundle, administrators can create up to five virtual desktop images in each Amazon region.
Supported end-user devices include Windows and Macintosh computers, machines running Ubuntu Linux 18, mobile devices including Chromebook, iPad, Fire tablets and iPad, and zero client devices.
Amazon also provides WorkSpaces Application Manager (WAM), which lets IT teams deliver desktop applications in containers. WAM makes deployment and updates easier, by packaging virtualized applications in containers, which can run like natively installed apps. Amazon provides two tools that let you manage containerized apps:
WAM Studio packages applications into containers.
WAM Player validates applications and runs them, with the ability to assign up to 50 applications for each user.