Amazon WorkSpaces Reviews & Insights

AWS is a well documented web service which allows users to accessible freely without any capacity issues at low cost. It provides security and helps to protect privacy of any data being stored. As there are many users of AWS, VDS Lagging is the main issue many of the users are facing. It helps me in privacy protection of project data and easily accessible for the files which are being stored. It's flexibility lets us to use any operating system, programming languages and web application platforms.

It's very useful for data base storage and security.
It helps the users to maintain data base at ease.
AWS provides virtually unlimited data storage and offers easy access and faster data retrieval.
It's useful for us to connect with customers and stakeholders through AWS social networking engine.
Users like us can create and customize profiles as per our needs and can stop it whenever not required which saves the cost.

Workspaces are used for remotely connecting to our organization's servers and access our virtual machines from anywhere. We use this application widely in our company. It has a simple and clean UI for any user to understand. Especially during work from the home period, it has been our part of daily work life. It runs smoothly without any stutters. It's a great option for accessing virtual machines. It is fast, secure, and reliable.

It is best suited for work-from-home situations. It doesn't require any VPN to connect. It runs smoothly and without any lags. But when the internet is slow it gets disconnected instantly without intimating the user. It is well designed and completely optimized to run on any operating system. However, macOS client suffers while closing the application. Updates are regular.

Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI) allows our remote work force to access Amazon's comprehensive virtual desktop offerings anywhere without being limited by a fast connection or infrastructure. Amazon currently offers a large free tier offering and has made the UI much easier to navigate. This is an offering that is currently very reliable and growing rapidly. Amazon is a source for remote desktops with packages to suit an individual, small business or enterprise. The free tier is suitable for learning, an individual or small business to become well versed in AWS.

With a substantial free tier, AWS is a solution for fast, reliable and secure access to tools and workflows for any project. AWS is still the most intimidating cloud solution to approach. While there is no shortage to power and solutions, it is not for the faint of heart. It is easy to get lost while using AWS though the solution is there. Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI) requires an IT manager with experience deploying applications and building databases. Comparably, Parallels is a much easier UI to navigate, along with many open source and free options.

Amazon WorkSpaces is currently in an extended pilot in our organization as part of our post-COVID response to creating a "hardware device agnostic" infrastructure that does not depend on traditional hardware to enable employees to perform their computing functions normally. The goal is to be able to present any user with their full range of applications and services, as well as file, from any endpoint. The current trial involves employees in multiple departments using the service to access a virtualized Windows Desktop.

For our use case, we found Amazon WorkSpaces well suited to remote work and other "work from home" and "work on the road" situations where the end user did not need to consume HD media (notably 4K) and did not need to produce any multimedia (audio, video, etc), but rather needed to perform more typical tasks such as web-browsing our corporate intranet and internal online apps, accessing files and using them through office productivity suites (Office - both online and desktop, and LibreOffice are under testing), etc.

[Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI)] is used as a virtual machine to connect to our network for troubleshooting purposes

[Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI) is] well suited in security aspects

Not always appropriate in user experience with the interface as typing and using shortcuts don't work as expected

We use Amazon WorkSpaces as our Virtual Machine software of choice. Whether we use it for consultants or employees, we've found it simpler to manage and easier to roll-out than other VM services such as VMWare or Windows Remote Desktop. Hosted by AWS, this service allows us to quickly scale our virtual desktop needs.

Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI) is easy to set up from both an IT perspective and a user perspective. Being a cloud-based virtual desktop, you have all your data, programs. and workflows accessible from anywhere with a simple download and sign-in. IT management is just as easy. Security, network, permissions, they're all easy to control from Amazon WorkSpaces.

Amazon WorkSpaces saves a lot of time as it provides a isolated virtual desktop. Our main challenge was testing applications on on different java, cmd, powershell etc. and upgrading/degrading to its particular required version was like a nightmare, it created conflicts and broke the normal use of local machine earlier. Amazon WorkSpaces completely solve this, we can now freely configure our WorkSpace as per our requirement.

Well suited scenarios: Let suppose a startup company wants to save cost of hardware and allow their employees use their own system but concerned about the security of their data then they can just use Amazon WorkSpaces on which an user can just login and access the virtual desktop over internet to do their assigned work. Less appropriate situation: The users will feel lag while doing high end creative work or render video for editing. Even with more expensive GPU enabled instances, the performance doesn't match the local system performance as connecting to Amazon WorkSpaces always depends on the network bandwidth as well.