Desktop and Application Streaming

Why Customers Are Moving Their Windows Desktops to the Cloud with HAQM WorkSpaces

With an estimated 50% of businesses still running Windows 7, migrating those millions of desktops and laptops to Windows 10 remains a top priority for businesses globally. The impetus, of course, is the end of mainstream support for Windows 7 coming up in January 2020, which may make Windows 7 PCs more vulnerable to malware, […]

Bring your App-V packages to AppStream 2.0 with the dynamic application framework

Customers with existing Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) packages that are keen to use them with HAQM AppStream 2.0 can do so using the dynamic application framework. The dynamic application framework allows customers to build a custom application provider that dynamically adds applications to the AppStream 2.0 catalog. This post details how to get started integrating […]

Managing HAQM WorkSpaces by integrating AWS Service Catalog with ServiceNow

Our friends at the AWS Management Tools Blog recently posted how you can manage HAQM WorkSpaces by integrating AWS Service Catalog with ServiceNow. In their post, you will learn how to integrate AWS Service Catalog with ServiceNow so users can request their own WorkSpace instances inclusive of all business-level approvals and auditing. You will then see […]

Create a PowerShell-Based dynamic app provider in HAQM AppStream 2.0

The HAQM AppStream 2.0 dynamic application framework provides API operations within an AppStream 2.0 streaming instance that you can use to build a dynamic app provider. Dynamic app providers use these API operations to modify the catalog of applications that your users can access in real time. For example, you can add applications to the […]

Building a multi-region disaster recovery environment for HAQM WorkSpaces

January 21, 2025: HAQM WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience (MRR) enables you to deploy Standby WorkSpaces in a secondary Region for your users. Once enabled, the system automatically mirrors the primary WorkSpace bundle images to the secondary Region that you configure and then provisions new standby WorkSpace instances for the selected users. You can optionally enable data […]

Creating an image programmatically with AppStream 2.0 Image Assistant CLI operations

September 2022: This blog has been updated to use a PSRemoting configuration file. HAQM AppStream 2.0 now lets you programmatically create an image using the Image Assistant command line interface (CLI) operations which are made available via an executable on the image builder. The CLI enables you to specify which applications your users can launch, […]

Managing HAQM Linux 2 HAQM WorkSpaces with AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise

Important note: AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise is not accepting new customers. Existing customers will be unaffected until March 31, 2024 at which time the service will become unavailable. We recommend that existing customers migrate to other solutions as soon as possible. For information about how to migrate your existing Puppet Enterprise servers, see How […]

Windows 10 System Registry Backup

We’ve had some customers reach out this week regarding Microsoft disabling automatic backups to the RegBack folder starting in Windows 10 version 1803. WorkSpaces with Windows 10 powered by Windows Server 2016 are not impacted– no action is needed. The system registry backup is working as expected. And, your WorkSpaces automatically back up data on the […]