What is Amazon WorkSpaces?
Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed, secure cloud desktop service. Amazon WorkSpaces can provision either Windows or Linux desktops in just a few minutes and quickly scale to provide thousands of desktops to workers across the globe. Amazon WorkSpaces helps eliminate the complexity in managing hardware inventory, OS versions and patches, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which helps simplify your desktop delivery strategy.
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84 Likeliness to Recommend
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92 Plan to Renew
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83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+91 Net Emotional Footprint
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How much do users love Amazon WorkSpaces?
Pros
- Inspires Innovation
- Caring
- Respectful
- Reliable
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Feature Ratings
Outsourced Backend Administration
Per Unit Time Pricing
Bulk Patching and Updates
Desktop Environment
Multi Tenant Architecture
Desktop Management
Secure Connectivity
Device Support
Vendor Capability Ratings
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Usability and Intuitiveness
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Business Value Created
Breadth of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Quality of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Customization
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Amazon WorkSpaces Reviews
Ivan C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2022
Desktop as a service on the cloud
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon WorkSpaces from other similar products?
Amazon WorkSpace offers desktop as a service for easy management and deployment of virtual desktop, quick and easy and affordable
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is very easy to get started and it is very easy to customize as needed
What do you dislike most about this product?
Current Amazon WorkSpace only supports a few operating environments, would like to see more being added
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are considering using desktops as a service and eliminating the need of procuring laptops, Amazon WorkSpace is a perfect solution for it.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Haman M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2022
My Experience With Amazon WorkSpaces
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon WorkSpaces from other similar products?
Th software is very secure cloud desktop service that makes it easy for collaboration and digitization of workplaces. It is scalable and can provide thousands of virtual desktops to all employees
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like that with Amazon WorkSpaces, we do not have to worry about managing hardware. It's easily scalable which is a plus It can be viewed as Window or Linux Using it is easy. It makes digitization easy
What do you dislike most about this product?
No problems with Amazon WorkSpaces
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend Amazon WorkSpaces as it saves cost of hardware maintenance and also makes workplace digitization easy
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Effective Service
Junaid K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2022
Phenomenal Machines!!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon WorkSpaces from other similar products?
Amazon workspaces provides us to create and use virtual machines of OS such as windows, linux. The best thing about workspaces is that it lets you create all these machines online and not on our Personal Computer Space.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Amazon workspace’s virtual machines can be accessed from anywhere such as personal computers, laptops, android tablet, ipads. It helps in cuttings costs and the physical spaces required if we had set up a physical computer. We can add and remove users.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Amazon workspaces is an outstanding, terrific product developed by amazon. Hence, i do not dislike anything about workspaces.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
These machines can be stopped and started from where left off. We can are allowed to choose the ram , storage of the machines. Hence, you can go for it!!
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Caring
- Over Delivered