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 ...

AWS launched Amazon WorkSpaces, a virtual workspace that the company says is half the price of traditional offerings. Announced today at AWS re:Invent, the service, available today, allows access from ...

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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, ...

WorkSpaces provides cloud-hosted Windows 7 desktops in four virtual machine configurations, but current VDI solutions may still have an edge in terms of flexibility Amazon Web Services is determined ...

Amazon made the public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud a major force in business IT with its Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now, the retail giant is betting that it can do the same with its new ...

Amazon made a splash last month when it announced WorkSpaces, a desktop virtualization system that streams a Windows 7 desktop from the company’s cloud infrastructure to a client machine, including a ...

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become the giant of instant infrastructure, and its cloud services have become essential to a whole generation of Internet-based businesses, ranging from small startups ...

This is my third article in a series on Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon's Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution. In my previous two articles (located here and here), I gave an overview of WorkSpaces and ...