Desktop and Application Streaming

This blog walks you through how to use the AppStream 2.0 Simple Pricing Tool for Always-On and On-Demand fleets with visualization of usage patterns, common pricing examples, and education licensing. To learn about Elastic fleets, read AWS announces Availability of Elastic fleets with HAQM AppStream 2.0 and refer to the AppStream 2.0 pricing page. You […]

For many HAQM AppStream 2.0 customers, providing their users with a familiar experience for streaming sessions is an important requirement. In response to this feedback, we launched custom branding and embedded AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions. Another common customer request is the ability to use custom domains for AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions. This blog post shows […]

Our friends at Cloudhouse Technologies published a blog showcasing how you can encapsulate your Windows desktop applications for deployment to HAQM WorkSpaces, or streamed via HAQM AppStream 2.0. Cloudhouse’s encapsulation technology captures all of the application files, required runtimes, components, deployment tools, and other components the application requires, and creates a Cloudhouse Container. The Cloudhouse […]

Our friends at Liquidware recently published a post on HAQM WorkSpaces and FlexApp Working Together. It’s a great read if you’re considering ways to manage the applications you’re delivering to your 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, […]

Today, we are pleased to announce that we are reducing the price of monthly and hourly Performance bundle-based HAQM WorkSpaces across all AWS regions and storage options effective September 1, 2019. You can now save up to 20% on the price of the Performance bundle on Windows and Linux WorkSpaces. With 8GB of RAM and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]