Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a compact computer that workers can use to access cloud-based virtual desktops. A virtual desktop is a workstation hosted in a ...

Amazon is rolling out a new way for businesses to use its cloud-based virtual desktop service, Amazon WorkSpaces. Instead of paying monthly for access to an always-on WorkSpace you can connect to at ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today updated Amazon Workspaces, its desktop virtualization suite, with new features that will enable customers to use the offering in more ways. Workspaces enables companies ...

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WorkSpaces provides cloud-hosted Windows 7 desktops in four virtual machine configurations, but current VDI solutions may still have an edge in terms of flexibility Amazon Web Services is determined ...

There’s a new challenger in the desktop virtualization space. Amazon just announced Amazon WorkSpaces, a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud. WorkSpaces sits higher in the stack than ...

Amazon has launched a new marketplace for apps that can be deployed on its cloud-based virtual desktops. AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps offers more than 100 tools for accounting, business ...

Private clouds offer “none of the benefits” of a robust public cloud, and are only a stopgap solution perpetuated by “old-guard” IT companies such as IBM, said Andy Jassy, Amazon senior vice president ...

Amazon Web Services has made its WorkSpaces virtual desktops less annoying to use with a feature that resumes the previous session after it detects an interruption. Today, if users close a laptop lid ...