Category: End User Computing

When using system authentication, Windows-based NICE DCV servers delegate client authentication to the underlying operating system. Upon authentication, DCV validates the DCV permissions, which specify the users that are allowed to access the session stream and the features they can use. Dynamically setting DCV session permissions allows administrators to automate session permissions based on specific […]

Customers are migrating from commercial databases to open-source databases on AWS like HAQM Aurora PostgreSQL and HAQM Aurora MySQL. As a best practice, customers configure these databases to be running in a private subnet within an HAQM VPC. When database administrators (DBA) have to perform admin activities on these databases they log in to a […]

Since launching HAQM WorkSpaces Core, customers have asked us numerous questions related to maximizing workload security with this new service. In this blog, we’ll dive deep into the 3 most frequently asked security-related questions. As a refresher, WorkSpaces Core provides cloud-based, fully managed virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) designed to work with third-party VDI management solutions. […]

HAQM AppStream 2.0 applications manager is a feature that streamlines the process of creating an app block. With applications manager, you create and connect to an app block builder instance and utilize the new application builder assistant to monitor your application installation. This new feature expands application compatibility with elastic fleets as well as reduces […]

Zoom has extended support for virtual desktops with a Zoom plugin for HAQM WorkSpaces. This plugin optimizes your video experience when using Zoom with an HAQM WorkSpaces Windows client. How it works On starting a Zoom Meeting in your HAQM WorkSpaces session, the plugin establishes a secure connection with the Zoom Meeting client in the […]

Increasingly organizations are standardizing on SAML 2.0 Identity Providers such as AWS IAM Identity Center and OKTA as their identity solution to access end user computing (EUC) services in AWS. With Certificate-based authentication (CBA), organizations can provide seamless authentication for our EUC services. Traditionally, the logon experience to a virtual desktop works by using the […]

Customer Contact Week (CCW) serves as a great platform for industry executives to connect, exchange ideas, and build invaluable relationships with customers. The event showcases innovative ideas, best practices, and the latest trends to shape the future of customer communication. CCW is taking place on June 19 – 22, in Las Vegas. AWS EUC is […]

Having just returned from the Gartner Digital Workplace Summit (EMEA) last month, we couldn’t be more excited to attend the Gartner Digital Workplace Summit (North America) on June 12-13 in San Diego. This event provides end-user computing leaders, practitioners, and service providers from around the world with the opportunity to engage in conversations and share […]

Are you looking to gain additional insight how your users are connecting to HAQM WorkSpaces? Would you like to track and report on IP addresses, platforms, and client versions being used to access HAQM WorkSpaces? Join us in Washington DC on June 8 at 9:30 AM EDT for our builders session EUC202. In this session, […]

At the upcoming AWS Summit in Washington, DC, Tushar Dhanani and I are hosting a chalk talk (session EUC 201) focused on what’s new with AWS and End User Computing (EUC) services. In this chalk talk, we will provide a high-level overview of AWS EUC services and new features for HAQM WorkSpaces Family services and […]