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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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Setting and management of PCs used in large quantities in the workplace and school is very hard, but when accessing the Internet, it is a problem that OS updates and security measures can not be ...

The era of pay-as-you-go desktop computing is here, and unsurprisingly, Amazon’s at the forefront in with its recently launched WorkSpaces offering. Does it stack up as a full replacement for a ...

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 ...

The Amazon Workspaces Thin Client is something of a kludge from a hardware perspective, but it can be made to link users to Cloud-centric services. While it’s a start of cost management, the user ...

Affordable and easy to deploy virtual systems accessible with almost any platform across the globe. What it lacks are the management tools for large scale deployment and more concurrent versions of ...

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 ...