Tag: HAQM WorkSpaces

Early last year my colleague Steve Mueller stopped by my office to tell me about an internal pilot program that he thought would be of interest to me. He explained that they were getting ready to run HAQM WorkSpaces on the HAQM network and offered to get me on the waiting list. Of course, being […]

Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a huge fan of HAQM WorkSpaces. In fact, after checking my calendar, I verified that every blog post I have written in the last 10 months has been done from within my WorkSpace. Regardless of my location—office, home, or hotel room—performance, availability, and functionality have […]

As I have noted in the past, I am a huge fan and devoted user of HAQM WorkSpaces. In fact, every blog post that I have written and illustrated over the last 6 or 7 months has been written on my WorkSpace. The most recent set of AWS podcasts were edited on the same WorkSpace. […]

AWS customers are deploying HAQM WorkSpaces at scale in medium and large organizations. For example, health care company Johnson & Johnson is using WorkSpaces to realize the long-promised security and efficacy benefits of virtual desktops, in a world populated by a diverse workforce that would like to use their own computing devices if possible (also […]

I’m a big fan of HAQM WorkSpaces and currently spend most of my day using a single WorkSpace that I can access from multiple locations, devices, and device types (I can’t wait to share even more details about this use case with you). Up until now, all actions on a WorkSpace had to be initiated […]

Update September 8, 2022 – HAQM WorkSpaces Application Manager (HAQM WAM) is reaching end of life and will no longer be available starting on September 1, 2023. Visit the WAM End of Life FAQs for more information. Over the last month or two I have become a devoted user of HAQM WorkSpaces. I am able […]

HAQM WorkSpaces is a managed desktop computing service that runs in the AWS cloud. Administrators can easily provision cloud-based desktops that users can access using the desktop or mobile device of their choice. Today I would like to recap a series of updates and improvements that we have made to WorkSpaces over the last couple […]

We’ve increased the geographic footprint and international relevance of several AWS services this past month. Here’s a summary: HAQM WorkSpaces and AWS Directory Service are now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. HAQM ElastiCache is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) region. AWS Trusted Advisor, HAQM ElastiCache, and RDS integration with AWS CloudTrail are […]