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 Web Services Inc. today updated Amazon Workspaces, its desktop virtualization suite, with new features that will enable customers to use the offering in more ways. Workspaces enables companies ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Amazon Web Services said it will offer hourly billing to its WorkSpaces cloud service in a move that's aimed at companies with part-time employees, job sharing, and temp workers. Under the changes, ...

Tom Fenton begins a series of how-to articles about the Desktop-as-a-Service solution, Amazon WorkSpaces, which usually requires Active Directory (AD) services delivered to WorkSpaces desktops. Here, ...