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 ...

I’ve never really gotten my head around virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for higher ed. With Amazon’s announcement that they will now be offering the ability to rent a virtualized desktop, ...

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 WorkSpaces, the company’s virtual desktop computing environment introduced last fall at the AWS re:Invent conference, is today available to the public. Up until now, Amazon was testing the ...

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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’ hosted virtual desktops have become generally available, priced from US$35, but the company and its competitors have a lot of hurdles to overcome before this sort of technology is ...

For years I’ve been complaining about the many challenges facing small and medium sized companies who really want to migrate all their applications to the cloud. Performance is one factor, and that’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Amazon Web Services has issued a security bulletin, ...

Amazon WorkSpaces applications allows faculty & students access to SPSS and Stata for academic use only. Amazon WorkSpaces applications can be used from any computer with a compatible web browser. For ...