Desktop and Application Streaming

Category: Management Tools

Optimize HAQM WorkSpaces Personal Performance with HAQM CloudWatch

Are you looking to gain additional insight how end users are connecting to HAQM WorkSpaces Personal instances? Would you like to track and report on IP addresses, platforms, and client versions being used to access WorkSpaces Personal? Are you interested better understanding operating system resource utilization within the WorkSpace Personal? Even if you attended our […]

Utilizing CloudWatch Internet Monitor with HAQM WorkSpaces Personal

At AWS re:Invent 2022, AWS launched HAQM CloudWatch Internet Monitor, which includes integrations with HAQM WorkSpaces Personal. After you associate your WorkSpaces with Internet Monitor, you can identify potential performance and internet connection issues of your users to their WorkSpaces. The service provides you with IP prefixes and ASN (typically, the internet service provider or […]

Announcing the HAQM WorkSpaces dynamic inventory plugin for Ansible®

Announcing the HAQM WorkSpaces dynamic inventory plugin for Ansible®

Customers use HAQM WorkSpaces to get a fully managed remote desktop solution in the AWS cloud, supporting Windows and Linux desktops. They often ask how they can perform bulk management tasks such as automating the installation of applications. Currently, this requires manual systems administration or third-party tools. Ansible is a free and open-source IT automation […]

Creating custom CloudWatch dashboards

Creating custom HAQM CloudWatch dashboards and widgets for HAQM WorkSpaces

Customers often ask how to gain additional insights into their HAQM WorkSpaces operating system resource utilization, such as CPU utilization and memory consumption. In addition, they want to use these metrics with HAQM CloudWatch dimensions to dive into trends and compare WorkSpaces instances.  In a previous blog, we highlighted how to use CloudWatch to understand […]

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Automate copy of HAQM WorkSpaces tags to hybrid activation resources in AWS Systems Manager

AWS Systems Manager allows customers to manager their HAQM WorkSpaces using hybrid activation managed nodes. Systems Manager provides software inventories, OS patches, and configuration of Windows and Linux WorkSpaces, but it is difficult to identify and map managed node to the corresponding WorkSpaces without any tags. This is a time-consuming process in large organizations where […]

Understand user access patterns and optimize HAQM WorkSpaces with HAQM CloudWatch

Are you looking to gain additional insight how end users are connecting to HAQM WorkSpaces instances? Would you like to track and report on IP addresses, platforms, and client versions being used to access WorkSpaces? Are you interested better understanding operating system resource utilization within the WorkSpace? Attend our re:Invent session EUC202, Monitor HAQM WorkSpaces […]

Monitor and automate AWS End User Computing (EUC) with AWS Chatbot

The blogpost teaches you how to deploy AWS Chatbot to your AWS account using the CloudFormation template. You learn how to configure the Chatbot to monitor and automate your AWS End User Compute (EUC) deployments. Customers are always looking at new ways to interact with systems. HAQM EUC administrators may need to be notified on […]

AWS EUC Washington DC Summit: Using HAQM CloudWatch to analyze user access to HAQM WorkSpaces

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, […]

How SoFi manages HAQM WorkSpaces at scale using AWS Systems Manager

This blog post walks through how SoFi, a financial technology company that provides a range of financial products and services, scale their growing business needs with AWS services. SoFi uses HAQM WorkSpaces to scale out their Desktop as a Service solution, and improve visibility and control of their environment with AWS Systems Manager. The SoFi […]

Announcing updates to NICE DCV AWS CloudFormation Templates

AWS customers looking to experience the NICE DCV streaming protocol can now utilize the latest DCV AWS CloudFormation template. This template is intended for proof-of-concepts and deploys a single HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instance preconfigured with DCV server ready to accept connections. This is an automated way to gain firsthand experience of the DCV high-performance […]