Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy, via webcast. Amazon Web Services is launching its own virtual cloud desktop service, called Amazon WorkSpaces — promising to deliver a Windows 7 operating system ...

For years I’ve been complaining about the many challenges facing small and medium sized companies who really want to migrate all their applications to the cloud. Performance is one factor, and that’s ...

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 ...

Amazon WorkSpaces allows customers to easily provision cloud-based desktops that allow end-users to access the documents, applications and resources they need with the device of their choice, ...

Amazon WorkSpaces, announced in November 2013 and only accessible to a small group of selected users, is now available to the public. The AWS customers can purchase a subscription at a price between ...

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 ...

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The new Amazon Workspaces service, unveiled Wednesday, lets customers rent access to virtual desktops running in the AWS cloud for a monthly fee. Amazon has launched a limited preview of the service ...

Amazon Web Services’ hosted virtual desktops have become generally available, priced from US$35, but the company and its competitors have a lot of hurdles to overcome before this sort of technology is ...