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, ...

The Amazon WorkSpaces Administration Guide states that you can use CloudWatch Metrics, CloudWatch Events and CloudTrail logs to monitor WorkSpaces. [Click on image for larger view.] CloudWatch Metrics ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is my third article in a series on Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon's Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution. In my previous two articles (located here and here), I gave an overview of WorkSpaces and ...