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Overview: AWS Workspaces

With the growing need for mobility and scalability, cloud-based virtual desktops are gaining appeal. With firms encouraging workers to work remotely and security risks rising, the time has come to adopt Desktop as a Service (Daas). Not only do DaaS solutions enable remote work, but they also give control over apps and data.

CDWT is a significant supplier of DaaS. We simplify and automate desktop administration with our Managed Amazon Workspaces services. We assist in customising and installing Amazon Workspaces, hence decreasing total cost of ownership (TCO), assuring data security, and alleviating the burden of enterprise-wide DaaS adoption.

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AWS WorkSpaces is recommended because it offers many compliance choices, including HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR.

Why AWS Workspaces?

AWS WorkSpaces is compatible with a wide variety of devices, including Chromebooks, Windows, Mac laptops, Fire, iPads, and Android tablets. Additionally, it is compatible with any web browser.

Hourly and monthly payment cycles are supported by AWS VDI pricing schemes. Part-time employees with a restricted number of hours per month benefit from hourly billing. With monthly pricing, your business would pay a flat monthly charge for unrestricted use throughout the month, which is excellent for full-time employees.

Through a single AWS portal, organisations can manage the deployment of several thousand AWS Workspaces around the world. IT personnel are no longer need to devote a significant amount of time to managing hardware inventories, OS upgrades, patch distribution, etc. With Amazon Workspaces, they are now able to concentrate more on key operations.

Amazon WorkSpaces does not prohibit the use of any gear or software. Users have the option to choose their operating system, hardware, and applications. In fact, users can even save some amount on the Amazon WorkSpace bill if they bring their own licenses. You can deploy thousands of Microsoft Windows or Linux desktops in the AWS regions close to your users within a few minutes.

Companies do not risk losing control of their IT infrastructure when they dispose of their physical assets. Amazon WorkSpaces is a feature-rich provisioning solution that enables the rapid creation, provisioning, and deletion of a large number of workspaces. This, coupled with Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD), can give a lot of control to the IT staff without compromising their security or breaking the bank.

Amazon WorkSpaces offers a complete security protection that aids businesses in mitigating security risks. In addition, CDWT provides a complete system for role control, enabling businesses to maintain tight control of their data and other digital assets.

With Amazon Workspaces, IT infrastructure costs may be reduced drastically without sacrificing infrastructure capabilities. You may also pay by the hour for what you use. This aids businesses in mitigating transient IT expenditures, which may rapidly become a dead investment.

Amazon WorkSpaces streamlines employee desktop delivery. Traditional PCs and laptops are stiff, difficult to administer, and vulnerable to security flaws. Amazon WorkSpaces surpasses these restrictions. Amazon Workspaces delivers a cloud-based desktop environment that is safe, maintained, and can be supplied effortlessly. Amazon WorkSpaces also reduces the stress on procuring, deploying, and managing a large amount of inventory.

CDWT's Managed Amazon Workspaces Offering

Although AWS WorkSpaces is an excellent DaaS solution, customers must still increase their readiness to embrace it. This involves selecting the appropriate AWS offering tier, constructing the ideal WorkSpace for their needs, and monitoring the offering. The CDWT team has more than a decade of expertise in constructing and supporting desktop virtualization systems, including Desktop as a Service.

Flexibility Accessibility

  • Access through Direct Connect / IPSec/VPN / P2S VPN / Internet
  • Secure Deployment according to company compliance requirements (Copy/Paste from local PC, Time-based access, location-based access control, Outbound access control).

We install and administer virtual Windows or Linux desktops for a variety of user types and use cases (Value, Standard, Performance, Power, PowerPro, Graphics, GraphicsPro, and Custom bundles). We examine the organization's demands and provide a plan that facilitates the creation of the necessary desktop experience.

We construct the landing zones and configure the AWS account in the necessary AWS regions. End-user desktops and apps are deployed using AWS Well-Architected Framework, our Cloud Adoption Framework, and Amazon Workspace Application Manager (WAM).

As part of our AIOps-based managed services, we automate desktop/patch maintenance, provide identity & access control, and continually monitor Amazon workspaces to guarantee data security and compliance with regulatory standards.

Desktop as a Service (DaaS) – Types
  • Windows and Linux Virtual Desktop
  • AlwaysON (Monthly) pricing or AutoStop hourly pricing models
  • Dedicated Virtual Desktop
Types of Users on DaaS

Value, Standard, Performance, Power, PowerPro, Graphics, GraphicsPro and Custom bundles

CDWT DaaS Offering
  • Assessment Discovery Deployment/ and DaaS
  • AIOps based Managed Services
Assessment Onboarding
  • Requirement gathering and blueprinting
  • AWS Account readiness
  • AWS Landing zone building
  • AWS Active Directory connector setup or Active Directory Integration
  • User profiling & bundle Creation
  • Secure Image Creation with applications
  • Custom WorkSpaces Image and Bundle building
  • Automation, Security, control and Scalability
  • AWS Well architected framework and Cloud Adoption Framework, CCoE governance & compliance management
  • High availability, and disaster Recovery planning for the DaaS Solution
  • Runbook Creation
CDWT AIOps based Managed Services
  • Automated problem, change & incident management policies deployment
    • Desktop management
    • Patch Management
    • Security tools / AV Management
  • Data protection
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Compliance Validation
  • Resilience Design
  • Infrastructure Security
  • Update Management
  • Monitoring and Fault detection
  • User experience management
  • Security & Compliance control monitoring and management

CDWT Service Coverage

CDWT has created an industry-leading, scalable, and adaptable desktop virtualization system that is both cost-effective and capable of simplifying and automating desktop administration. CDWT facilitates desktop deployment and eliminates uncertainty and anxiety.

Workshop to examine use cases and requirements, and to suggest a roadmap, design, and strategy.
Setup Amazon WorkSpaces, configure and administer
Assist in integrating WorkSpaces with your enterprise's AD/LDAP and G-Suite apps.
Helps in enabling SSO to your WorkSpaces
Amazon Workspace App Manager enables the personalization of workspaces (WAM)

Amazon Workspaces Key Use cases

Affordable Cloud Desktops for Educators and Students

Educational Institutions are altering their instructional methods. Computers have become an integral part of the classroom. By utilising Amazon Workspaces, educational institutions were able to provide Teachers and Students with access to virtual desktops from any place. Many students may use the same end-user devices, hence lowering the capital expenditures and administrative labour required for one-to-one PCs.

Desktops in the Cloud with High Performance for CAD/Graphics/Video Designers and Developers

It requires several functions to properly manage a business, and each of these tasks has unique infrastructure requirements. Some teams, such as design teams, focus on GPU-intensive activities, while others focus on CPU-intensive jobs. Amazon Workspaces fulfils this need for varied IT environments and performance requirements. Amazon Workspaces provide a variety of packages, each with its own hardware and software choices. You may pick from established bundles or develop your own bundle based on the use case.

Desktops in the Cloud with High Performance for CAD/Graphics/Video Designers and Developers

It requires several functions to properly manage a business, and each of these tasks has unique infrastructure requirements. Some teams, such as design teams, focus on GPU-intensive activities, while others focus on CPU-intensive jobs. Amazon Workspaces fulfils this need for varied IT environments and performance requirements. Amazon Workspaces provide a variety of packages, each with its own hardware and software choices. You may pick from established bundles or develop your own bundle based on the use case.

Digital Workspaces that Comply for Healthcare Professionals

Desktop virtualization technologies are being used by the healthcare industry to enable flexible and HIPAA-compliant workplaces for the workforce. AWS Workspaces allows healthcare IT to deliver workspaces that are highly available, secure, and support data backup and disaster recovery, so that private patient-related data may be accessed from any device, at any time, by the necessary individuals alone.

Virtual Desktops Scalable for New Mergers or Acquisitions

In situations like as mergers and acquisitions, businesses may need to rapidly generate or remove thousands of desktops while maintaining application and data security. Amazon workSpaces offers a virtual desktop architecture that does not need upfront infrastructure configuration and enables the quick scaling of secure virtual desktops depending on current requirements without raising infra expenses.

Amazon WorkSpaces Architecture Diagram

Strategy for Amazon Workspaces Deployment by CDWT

CDWT developed a high-level strategy so that our clients may begin utilising Amazon Workspaces as efficiently as possible on Day 1.

AWS Workspaces – FAQs

Even if the majority of businesses today have all the essential tools for accessing AWS WorkSpaces, we must ensure that all the necessary inventory is in place and the fundamental configuration is complete. At this point, VPC - private subnets and NAT Gateway - are configured. We guarantee that users have access to the essential connection and protocols, such as S2S and VPN tools. Additionally, we examine IP allocation and other HDLP facets, including web and data access, IP access management, and trusted devices.

Currently, Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is used to develop authentication and user access methods. We construct an Active Directory (AD) on AWS and map it to the on-premises domain. This allows users to access files inside the on-premise domain.

This is a vital step where we create a security layer for all the data that is being transferred in the network. Encryption of data, mapping protocols for secure data transfer, deploying HDLP software, antivirus, and any security features needed to ensure compliance is done. This will make sure that using Amazon WorkSpaces does not violate any compliance norms.

While assuring security from all angles, we install tools and establish processes to automatically monitor network events and metrics and provide monthly performance reports. We also ensure that frequent backups of the data are produced.

What is Amazon Workspaces?
AWS's Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed and secure cloud desktop solution. With AWS Workspaces, your business IT team can supply Windows or Linux desktops in a matter of minutes depending on the changing needs of your workforce.

Amazon Workspaces removes the requirement for the acquisition and deployment of hardware and enables the smooth and rapid scaling of desktops for employees across the globe.

In comparison with conventional desktops and on-premises VDI systems, the flexible and pay-as-you-go pricing saves money. End users may access a responsive desktop from anywhere, at any time, and on any compatible device, therefore ensuring employee efficiency in all situations.
What are the uses of Amazon Workspaces?
Amazon WorkSpace is a virtual desktop hosted in the cloud that may replace a regular desktop. Using Workspace, your organisation may supply a bundle of OS, compute, and software resources, as well as employee-specific software applications, allowing the end-user to work similarly to when using a standard office desktop.

AWS WorkSpaces may also be easily connected with current IT systems and procedures to streamline the desktop management cycles of a company. Due to a lack of prior commitment, the organisation might discontinue the workspaces at any moment.
What is the pricing of Amazon Workspaces?
The cost of integrating Amazon Workspaces into your business will depend on the end-user/employee requirements and configuration specifications. Although you have the option to pay monthly or hourly based on your usage, hourly billing still incurs monthly infrastructure and storage fees. With monthly pricing, your business would pay a flat monthly charge for unrestricted use throughout the month, which is excellent for full-time employees. Amazon workspaces are available for typical use for $21 per month per user per month. Hourly billing is ideal for part-time workers as billing is also limited to the number of hours during the month, and with no upfront commitment, the workspaces could be disabled at any time by the enterprise

Contact our AWS specialists to get enterprise-specific pricing for AWS workspaces.
How does Amazon Workspaces work?
Amazon Workspaces enables the provisioning of Microsoft Windows and Amazon Linux desktops in the cloud. Users must download the Amazon Workspaces client on a compatible client device (Windows and Mac laptops, iPads, Tablets, etc.) or use a supported web browser for Amazon Workspaces. Using an Internet connection with TCP and UDP ports open on the user's end, remote workers may connect to a WorkSpace. Users may log in using their Active Directory (AD) credentials or the credentials supplied by the administrator and conduct any job they could on a conventional desktop. Additionally, users may restart a session interrupted by network troubles.