
Explore AWS workspaces and apps for desktop virtualization, learn best practices for IAM permissions, and implement cost-saving measures with small test instances and billing alerts.
Amazon workspaces deliver secure, managed, cost-effective virtual desktops on the cloud as a desktop as a service, running Windows or Linux and launched in minutes from any device.
Compare Amazon workspaces with vdi or pc, highlighting faster setup and cloud pay-as-you-go with no upfront investment. Data security with 256-bit encryption, scalability, automated patches, and aws managed infrastructure.
Discover how Amazon WorkSpaces delivers secure, scalable virtual desktops with no data on the local client, encrypted data in transit and at rest, automatic patches, and pay-as-you-go deployment.
Understand how early reviews appear around 5% completion and delay feedback with options like 'ask me later' or 'ask me at the end' to avoid skewing the average rating.
Explore Amazon WorkSpaces pricing with flexible monthly and hourly billing, and switch between options during a billing period to optimize your bill using the cost optimizer.
Explore how Amazon WorkSpaces are deployed across availability zones, using directories and options like NWS managed Microsoft Active Directory or a simple AD, with images and bundles to launch desktops.
Launch a workspace by selecting the active directory, assigning users, choosing a standard bundle with Windows 10, configuring storage and encryption, auto stop, and deploying in the Singapore region.
Access the amazon workspaces client from windows 10, using the registration code and your username and password to securely connect to an available workspace after setup by email.
Explore workspace properties in the AWS console, including inviting users, stopping, rebuilding, removing, modifying, and migrating to new bundles, while adjusting volume size, computer types, and workspace state.
Create a custom image from an existing workspace, then build a custom bundle from that image and launch the workspace after running the image checker.
Explore Amazon WorkDocs, a secure, fully managed storage integrated with WorkSpaces for real-time collaboration. Access on mobile and web via mounted drive, with 1 TB per user and 60-day retention.
Explore AWS WorkDocs integration in the management console, including admin setup, multi-factor authentication, and creating sites, directories, and applications for secure file storage and access.
Explore work docs in the MyDocs workspace, learn to create folders, upload and drag-and-drop files, share with permissions, lock and unlock files, and preview or edit documents online.
Explore WorkDocs for team collaboration with a centralized content repository that enforces permissions, versioning, and data locality. Learn to search, share links, provide feedback, publish drafts, and manage tasks.
Install and configure Amazon WorkDocs in WorkSpaces, enabling seamless file synchronization with Windows Explorer and access across WorkSpaces and the WorkSpaces client.
Discover how to synchronize files and folders between the WorkDocs browser client and the workspaces drive, including creating, editing, and deleting a text file to demonstrate cross-client sync.
Explore how to browse the workspace application manager catalog, subscribe to marketplace apps like notepad++ and Eclipse, assign them to users, and install them on Amazon WorkSpaces.
Learn the basics of the Workspaces application manager, a fast, secure way to deploy and assign Windows apps in Amazon WorkSpaces, with usage tracking and pay-per-use pricing.
Explore the key workspaces features, including applications from the marketplace, packages, usage details, and subscriptions. Compare light and standard plans and understand per-user access for line-of-business and third-party apps.
Protect Amazon workspaces with MFA and IAM controls. Encrypt data at rest and in transit with volume encryption, TLS 1.2, and KMS keys via the NWS gaming service.
Explain how Amazon WorkSpaces authenticates users through an on-premises Active Directory via the AD Connector and authentication gateway, issuing a token to launch the workspace.
Learn AppStream 2.0, a fully managed AWS application streaming service that delivers desktop apps to browsers from anywhere. Centralize management, enable instant access, and optimize global performance by region.
Log in to the AppStream console, launch the image builder from the base Windows image, install apps, create a golden image, build a fleet and a stack to grant access.
Navigate the AppStream 2.0 lab to create stacks and fleets, configure access policies, and enable end-user streaming with VPC, S3 storage, and image management.
AppStream 2.0 enables centralized apps and data, instant updates to all users, delivery to any device, on-demand scaling, and global reach, plus virtual labs and on-demand trials.
Contrast workspaces' secure desktops with image management to run Windows apps on nearly any device against AppStream 2.0's instant browser-based access and pay-as-you-go cloud processing.
Monitor Amazon WorkSpaces with CloudWatch metrics, using predefined or custom metrics for workspaces, AppStream, and fleet, and set alarms for capacity utilization, availability, and user connected.
Monitor Amazon WorkSpaces with CloudWatch Events, view workspace access events, and set alarms via the console, CLI, or API, then create event rules with a target like Lambda.
Learn cost-control strategies for Amazon WorkSpaces by selecting right services, bundles, and AppStream where viable, and using tagging and cost optimizer to choose most cost-effective hourly or monthly billing.
Explore AWS WorkLink, a fully managed service that securely provides mobile access to internal corporate web sites and web apps, handling deployment, provisioning, scaling, and updates for seamless, policy-driven access.
Discover how WorkLink provides seamless mobile access to corporate content with one-click access, content rendered in a secure cloud container, and pay-as-you-go pricing of five dollars per active user.
COVID-19 changed views about what can be done remotely.
As published in Forbes on April 17, 2020, The Unsung Application Heroes Of AWS Come Through During COVID-19 Crisis, Amazon WorkSpaces provide an appealing, cost-friendly alternative to on-prem VDI solutions and traditional desktop PCs, allowing for the speedy provisioning of Windows and Linux desktops in “mere minutes”
Here is a statement from CIO of an Indian Bank to IANS in an interview:
"We have realised that certain kinds of work can be done purely through Amazon WorkSpaces directly from contract resources sitting at contract locations, instead from our office premises,"
Organisations are increasingly looking for options for employees to work securely from any location. Whether it is to support work from anywhere, global workforce collaboration or to ensure business continuity in the face of disasters, organisations want remote work solutions that they can depend on.
Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed desktop computing service running on the AWS Cloud. WorkSpaces allows you to easily provision cloud based desktops that allow you to access any file they need from all kinds of devices. Your documents, applications and resources can be accessed on devices including Windows, mac, chromebook, ipad, fire tablets, android tablets, web browsers like chrome and firefox.
WorkSpaces lets you provision high quality desktop experience for any number of users at a cost that is competitive with the traditional desktops and half the cost of most virtual desktops infrastructure VDI solutions.
This course is designed keeping in mind both Administrators and Users.
You could be a Student, Contractor, Employee working remotely and want the applications and tools to quickly deploy and use at a global scale.
So you are at the right place !!!
For Administrators it helps in securing resources, lowering the costs, delivering high quality user experience, simplifying administration and scaling on demand.
For Users, WorkSpaces helps to get instant access to apps and data going between devices and getting work done from anywhere.
About the Course:
During this course we will start with a basic overview of each service, one by one, then move on to a more practical experience by demonstrating an integration of all these services with an on-premises network, and a discussion of the available options to configure these services to make them suit your company's needs.
So here is the complete package for you to work with AWS services
WorkSpaces
WorkDocs
AppStream 2.0
WorkSpace Application Manager
WorkLink
Concept and Lab Exercises for each service on AWS Console
Updates and Advanced Topics arriving soon...