Desktop and Application Streaming

Development teams want cloud desktops that feel like local machines. Until now, that meant giving up containers. Today, Amazon WorkSpaces Personal supports nested virtualization. All WorkSpaces Personal and Core bundles, including Custom, support nested virtualization except on Value bundles, Amazon Linux 2, Windows Server 2016, or Windows 10. For the best experience, we recommend enabling […]

Introduction Developers and engineers increasingly rely on tools that require hardware virtualization support – Docker Desktop, WSL2, Android Studio emulators, and AI agents such as Claude Cowork. Until now, using these tools on a virtual desktop meant choosing between self-managed infrastructure or asking users to work on local hardware outside of your managed environment. Nested […]

AWS has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS) for the third consecutive year, evaluated on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. We believe this recognition reflects our sustained commitment to building the cloud desktop that organizations can grow with, one that delivers operational value and security confidence […]

AWS and Amazon WorkSpaces have been positioned as a Leader in both the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and Virtual Client Computing (VCC), evaluated on strategy and capabilities. AWS advanced from Major Player in the prior evaluation. We believe this advancement is a recognition of the investments Amazon WorkSpaces has made to deliver secure cloud desktops that unlock real value for customers today and […]

We’re launching the next chapter of our digital enablement program for Amazon WorkSpaces: the Amazon WorkSpaces Migrations Badge. Organizations are increasingly moving from on-premises VDI to the cloud. Your technical team needs the right expertise to plan, execute, and optimize these transitions for customers. The Migrations Badge validates your team’s ability to move Citrix, Omnissa […]

We frequently hear from customers that many Amazon WorkSpaces deployments run on operating systems (OS) that are near end-of-life. These older environments, paired with legacy streaming protocols, limit access to the latest features, security updates, and long-term support. Modernization is more than a protocol change. It is an opportunity to upgrade the OS, adopt Amazon […]

Picture a global manufacturer that finds a critical defect in one of its products. Within minutes, a hundred things have to happen at once: orders paused, suppliers and customers notified, inventory reallocated, regulatory paperwork prepared, executives briefed. Even a year ago, that meant pulling hundreds of people into virtual war rooms, each logging into a […]

Today, we are announcing the general availability of providing AI agents access to Amazon WorkSpaces Applications. Agents can now securely access and operate desktop applications through managed WorkSpaces environments. Many enterprises run core business processes on desktop applications that lack modern APIs, which creates a last-mile challenge: the workflows most worth automating are the ones […]

Customers want to use desktop services to deliver business-critical applications and desktops to their end users at scale. Our mission in the Amazon End User Computing (EUC) organization is designed to enable customers to securely get work done from anywhere and from any device. To help us deliver on this mission, we launched Amazon WorkSpaces […]

Amazon WorkSpaces has traditionally supported Active Directory domain-join desktops. Administrators manage these desktops through group policies and tools that run on site servers and branch servers. Custom image pipelines are built to install applications, push updates, and patch desktops at scale. IT administrators spend time to create and maintain custom images for different user personas. […]