HAQM AppStream 2.0 and HAQM WorkSpaces announcements and launches – August

Our team has been hard at work and we have launched new technical documents, webinars, and more. This blog post focuses on our recent documentation, webinars, and resources that we think you can get the most out of:

Documentation

Best Practices for Deploying HAQM WorkSpaces
This whitepaper outlines a set of best practices for the deployment of HAQM WorkSpaces. The paper covers network considerations, directory services and user authentication, security, and monitoring and logging.

Best Practices for VPCs and Networking in HAQM WorkSpaces Deployments -This document describes the fundamental capabilities of the AWS networking portfolio that can be used to deploy an HAQM WorkSpaces environment and explains how these can be used to tailor the environment to different use cases.

Best Practices to Prepare your HAQM WorkSpaces for Linux Images – This whitepaper outlines a set of best practices for the image preparation of HAQM WorkSpaces for Linux. The paper covers Well-Architected Principles applied to image design, the make-up of an HAQM WorkSpace, the Bundle and Image process for HAQM WorkSpaces, and methodologies for Image management. The paper addresses best practices for operating system updates, remote protocol configuration, application deployment, and desktop experience configuration of MATE.

Running Adobe Creative Cloud on HAQM AppStream 2.0 – This guide helps cloud architects to build an HAQM AppStream 2.0 environment and deploy Adobe Creative Cloud applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro to users. Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, UX and more.

Webinars

How to Manage and Optimize your HAQM WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 Implementations – In this tech talk, you will learn to take advantage of HAQM WorkSpaces and HAQM AppStream 2.0 features and services to manage and optimize your implementation. This tech talk is designed for IT Directors, administrators, and customers looking to better understand topics such as cost, bundles, instance types, fleet management, and simplifying their current implementations.

How HAQM is Using HAQM WorkSpaces to Enable Work from Home for Employees and Contingent Workforce – Designed for organizations that are setting up or optimizing work from home scenarios, we will share how HAQM WorkSpaces can enable employees and contractors to access their desktops from any supported device from any location. In this session, Karl McGough, manager of HAQM’s Client Engineering team will share how they have scaled their WorkSpaces deployment to enable work from home, and Meg Maciolek, Sr. Program Manager from HAQM’s Contingent Workforce team will share how they enable contractors to onboard without visiting the IT department. Jeff Barr, AWS Chief Evangelist will also share how he uses HAQM WorkSpaces to work from anywhere.

Best Practices to Automate your HAQM End User Computing Deployments
In this tech talk, we will cover key automation options for creating, managing, and optimizing your HAQM End User Compute Services at scale. HAQM End User Compute services include HAQM AppStream 2.0, HAQM WorkDocs, and HAQM WorkSpaces managed services. Using best practice customer examples, we will discuss topics including environment optimization, application deployment and patch life cycles, integration with joiners and leavers programs, monitoring and migration using Cloud Formation, HAQM SDK Scripting, and third party tools.

Features

AppStream 2.0 Adds Support For The Native Desktop Experience – HAQM AppStream 2.0 adds support for enabling the standard Windows desktop experience on your fleets.

HAQM AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Local Printer Redirection – HAQM AppStream 2.0 adds support for local printer redirection with the AppStream 2.0 client for Windows. With local printer redirection, AppStream 2.0 users can redirect print jobs from their streaming application to a printer that is connected to their local computer. No printer driver needs to be installed on the AppStream 2.0 streaming instance to enable users to print documents during their streaming sessions.

HAQM AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Drawing Tablets – HAQM AppStream 2.0 adds support for drawing tablets. Drawing tablets, also known as pen tablets, are computer input devices that let users draw with a stylus (pen). With AppStream 2.0, your users can now connect a drawing tablet, such as a Wacom drawing tablet, to their local computer and use it with their streaming applications. AppStream 2.0 supports all of the core capabilities of drawing tablets, including pressure sensitivity.

HAQM AppStream 2.0 Now Supports EC2 g4dn Instances – HAQM AppStream 2.0 adds support for Graphics g4dn instances based on the EC2 G4 family. EC2 g4dn instances deliver the industry’s most cost-effective and versatile GPU instance for running graphics-intensive applications on AWS. g4dn provides the latest generation NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU, AWS custom Intel Cascade Lake CPUs, up to 100 Gbps of networking throughput, and up to 1.8 TB of local NVMe storage. These instances are ideal for streaming graphics-intensive applications that rely on NVIDIA GPU libraries such as CUDA.

HAQM AppStream 2.0 adds support for native application mode on Windows PCs – HAQM AppStream 2.0 adds support for native application mode in the AppStream 2.0 client for Windows. Native application mode for streaming provides a familiar experience for AppStream 2.0 users by letting them interact with their remote streaming applications in the same way as they interact with locally installed applications. In addition, users can switch seamlessly between locally installed applications and remote applications that are streamed through AppStream 2.0.

Conclusion

The Desktop and Application Streaming Blog Round Up is designed to provide readers and customers a summary of some of the work we have recently completed. For more information please visit the HAQM WorkSpaces and HAQM AppStream 2.0 web pages.