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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The new Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a “reinvented” Amazon Fire TV Cube, will sell for $195, designed for enterprise customers to offer to their employees. (Amazon Photo) At a company famous for ...

Amazon has turned its Fire TV Cube streaming device into a thin client optimized for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon’s Workspaces Thin Client also supports Amazon’s Workspaces Web, for accessing ...

It took Microsoft some time, but Windows 10 introduced a major feature called virtual desktops, which allows you to create different virtual workspaces for different apps. At the time, many pointed ...

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 ...