# Amazon WorkSpaces Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Providers](https://www.g2.com/categories/desktop-as-a-service-daas) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 108 ## About Amazon WorkSpaces Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed, secure cloud desktop service that enables organizations to provision virtual desktops for their users. These desktops can run on various operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Amazon Linux 2, Ubuntu Linux, Rocky Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. By leveraging Amazon WorkSpaces, businesses can eliminate the need to procure and deploy hardware or install complex software, allowing for quick scalability to add or remove users as needed. Users can access their virtual desktops from multiple devices or web browsers, ensuring flexibility and continuity in their work environment. Key Features and Functionality: - Flexible Deployment Options: Choose between WorkSpaces Personal for persistent, personalized desktops tailored for individual users, or WorkSpaces Pools for non-persistent desktops suitable for users needing access to curated environments on ephemeral infrastructure. - Customizable Configurations: Select from a range of hardware and software configurations, including various instance types and storage options, to meet specific organizational needs. - Operating System Support: Supports multiple operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Amazon Linux 2, Ubuntu Linux, Rocky Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, providing flexibility in deployment. - Security and Compliance: Integrates with existing Active Directory environments, supports multi-factor authentication, and offers encryption options to protect data both in transit and at rest. - Cost Efficiency: Operates on a pay-as-you-go pricing model, allowing organizations to pay only for the resources they use without the need for long-term contracts. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: Amazon WorkSpaces addresses the challenges of managing traditional desktop infrastructures by offering a scalable, secure, and cost-effective virtual desktop solution. It enables organizations to support remote and hybrid workforces, ensuring employees can securely access their desktops and applications from anywhere, at any time. By eliminating the complexities associated with hardware procurement, software installation, and capacity planning, Amazon WorkSpaces allows IT departments to focus on strategic initiatives rather than routine maintenance tasks. Additionally, its integration capabilities with existing IT environments and support for various operating systems make it a versatile solution for diverse business needs. ## Amazon WorkSpaces Reviews ### 1. Good remote connectivity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sham S. | Sr. Analyst Amazon AP, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The continuous Ness was good. It always starts from where we left. No matter how u switched it off.. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Sometime slowness due to technical issue. Still managable **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** Surely would recommend to others **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was quete useful in terms of privacy. Can't share anything with the personal PC or laptop. It was fast in usage. ### 2. The workspace itself is great but the support is TERRIBLE. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cristin H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The workspace itself was created easily. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Support. I can't get anyone on the phone, through chat and it takes up to 24 hours to receive a response via email. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** I would recommend if they update their support system. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to login remotely to a desktop and share certain information with colleagues . ### 3. Review for Amazon WorkSpace **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akshath R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The security level is very high of Amazon Wokspace. You need to register your device such as mobile phone and then use RSA token to login to AWS. Within which you will have to login to your virtual machine. In this you can open more than one virtual machine and data can be easily transferred from one VM to the other. Even copy paste from one machine to other works. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Amazon work space doesn't give access to transfer data from local machine to VM. Handling this becomes more hectic like you will have to always mail to the VM to get the data. Sometimes mailing wont solve as the size of the data is more so you will have to create a cloud memory and then transfer data. Moreover the support team of AWS is really hard to connect to if you face any issues while logging in to AWS **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** I am not quite happy using this Software. You will need to login to multiple places to open your Remote Desktop and work. Yes its helpful when there is a requirement to use more than one VM in one Machine. But there are few things which are restricted like copy pasting of data from local machine to VM. I would not likely recommend to use this as Virtual Desktops. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am currently developing Process Automation for my client and they use AWS within which we have dedicated virtual machines to work on. I find it similar to CITRIX , haven't yet got any such benefits by using this. ### 4. Aws workspace review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Swaraj D. | Test Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Secure and enables single sign on to connect to the network. It's secured. There is no space issue howsoever. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Network connection is not very stable at times. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** Can use it for faster access to remote server with secure connection. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security, data shielding , easy to connect to VDI. Easy to use. No space issue as it is hosted in cloud. ### 5. Amazon Workspaces is easy and super useful! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** I like how smoothly it runs on any computer. It's easy to setup and even easier to log into. We use it for a shared computer with license to a software. It's easy for user to log in and do what they need to and log out. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** It takes some time to log into. Usually waiting for a couple minutes for the computer to come online. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** It's a very economical solution for what we were looking for. It runs great and is always reliable. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** We bought one license to a software and put it on a shared computer. This Amazon workspace allows people in different offices to have access to it. We also don't have to have VPN's to our main location to share a computer on that server. ### 6. Amazon Workspace Review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subham M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** AWS is a platform that gives you the access to use more than one Virtual machines using one user id of AWS. You don't need to switch machines to log into different VMs. Moreover AWS is quite secured which I feel as whenever you need to login to AWS you will have to generate a token using RSA application and then use that token with your secured pin. Also I like one more thing that is it doesn't disconnect the VM opened inside it even if you disconnect the AWS. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** With such security I personally think they could have the support team easily reachable. Its really a pain to connect to the support team. It does not allow you to transfer data by copy pasting from your own local machine to AWS. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** As per my experience I would say using AWS has pros and cons both. Its quite beneficial for me when I do my development in it. But also face problems while copy pasting any data from local machine to AWS. But the major part of my work is development which goes on smooth. From a developers point of view I would obviously recommend to use this product. It will save your time in many ways. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work as an Automation expert and I do process automation using Automation Anywhere tool. So I use AWS within which I do my development and as it provides you the access you use multiple VMs. It helps me to continue my development in one machine and I can parallelly run the code in a different VM. This is a great advantage for we developers atleast. ### 7. If your PC is too Slow. This is the best one **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** AWS Workspaces was so helpful for me, When I was in the lockdown and I had emergency work. But my Laptop can't cater the requirements. So I bought a AWS Workspace and completed my work. AWS Workspace can launch in multiple monitors as extended. Also, it is working smoothly in the low bandwidth internet connections. Also, I can extend my Memory and Capacity if I needed. Also has great in workspace internet connection, That was really fast. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** AWS Workspaces are very expensive. Also, Have some problems with the audio interface. Also, it can't access to my webcam. And when in the meetings, it needed to switch my actual workspace. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** AWS Workspaces are too much expensive. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** These days, I'm working in a huge research project that done by my University. For that I needed a high performance pc. But with this lockdown situation because of the COVID19. I have no chance to afford it. Because of that I purchased a AWS Workspace and I have done my work in there. ### 8. Valuable option for secure cloud desktops for remote employees **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aleksandr S. | Solutions Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** - Easy to use solution - Fully operational contact center - A valuable option for secure cloud desktops for remote employees. A lot of options for secure content collaboration **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Speed of response from VM is sometimes too slow but in general I would recommend Amazon WorkSpaces as a valuable option for secure cloud desktops for remote employees. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** I would recommend Amazon WorkSpaces as a reliable solution for remote employees. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Plenty of problems related to remote work and study for our employees ### 9. Amazon Workspaces **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** allows a combination of work software within one application and the ability to access communication software for job compliance **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** This is the best WAH virtual application I have ever used I dont dislike anything about it **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy access to all work related programs. The ability to communicate with other team members and associates. ### 10. Security features and connectivity is the best **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** NaveenKumar M. | Technical Staff Member, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2019 ### 11. Virtual Computer with High performance aspects **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Santhosh T. | Lead Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Ability to install and use the AWS even with medium speed internet. Also its ability to install software as equal to physical machine by matching with its performance. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Frequent network issue which results in disconnections. For restarting AWS once will take around 15 mins every single time. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** Virtual machine with performance of physical machine. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using machine from any location with the files and softwares supported globally. ### 12. Easy way to control code access and standardize computers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt L. | VP of Technology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** We use workspaces as a clean way to make sure our code base is not on anyone's personal computers, and to control access to the test systems in AWS. All developers get a workspace, and then we have the source control and testing servers all blocked through AWS firewalls to only allow the developer workspaces to access them. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The user access controls and setting things like 'session timeout' can be done, but it's very difficult (have to go through Microsoft Active Directory). Wish that Amazon would make this easier to use. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving any compliance issues with having the code base out on personal computers, makes shut down of a 'leaving' employee much easier, and makes for more secure access to testing resources ### 13. Awesome Virtual Desktop Service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikhil J. | Associate Team Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Earlier we used to work on Virtual desktop and need to Create infrastructure for every user. Now we dont need to spend the time for that. AWS Removed the various dependencies on other services we need to handle and we dont need to handle the security too. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** dislike part is like sometimes it disconnects inbetween might be due to other user accessing with same credentials or other thing. The dependency on network is also contraint but for cloud infra that is needed actually. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** I think this is a great product to go for a new era of cloud working environment **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to maintain our healthcare applications. The Secure environmment help us to not worry about the data vulnerabilty. ### 14. Easy to setup for Virtual Desktop and using the advantage of AWS datacenters all around the world. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Serdar M. | Senior Information Technology System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Instead of using, on-prem Citrix solution, I provided for our APAC region users with a low latency solution for their virtual desktop experience. When using Workspaces, we have freedom to choose the appropriate datacenter to reduce latency for your distant locations. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** AWS has their own GPOs for Windows OS. I had some conflict with my GPOs and AWS GPOs. Unfortunately, there is solution to disable the AWS's GPO configured on Virtual desktops. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** If you have locations all around the world and you want to provide with a good quality desktop experience for your users, then I recommend you to look into Workspaces solution. It gives you flexibility to work on a distributed service for virtual desktops. It has all kind of operating systems built in Workspaces solution. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Users from APAC region had some difficulties to access our on prem resources such as Citrix and other servers. Because of long distance, it was impossible to reduce the latency for regular desktop experience. That was the moment, we have decided to give a shot for AWS Workspaces solution. After configuring the insfastructure on AWS, I had used directory services for integration with AD and it was ready to use. ### 15. Incredible as a low cost solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Outsourcing/Offshoring | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** It's really quick, responsive and doesn't have any sort of latency. And it's super easy to change workstations in any part of the office. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Just the fact that sometimes it doesn't keep the session open after more than 24h. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** If you want an effective solution, that you can scale up easly, this is something you should look at for your business, or even, for personal use. Cloud computer is the future! **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** There's no need for bulky computers in the office that make heat and increase maintenance costs. ### 16. Allows for convenient and remote use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** I like how AWS provides a space to get work done, and then be able to access that space from any other computer or device. It is simple to use. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** There are no real downsides of using AWS. The problems encountered have been very minor, such as freezing momentarily upon viewing full screen. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** AWS is worth it for the remote capabilities and much more. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Amazon WorksSpaces allows employees to work remotely, or wherever they may be. Scheduling can sometimes be difficult in this day and age, so having this option is great. ### 17. Using AWS Workspaces **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Workspaces allows you to easily have a desktop in the cloud, and do work with a GUI that would otherwise have to be done using the terminal/command line in an EC2 instance. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Workspaces can sometimes lose connection for no reason even when the network is working fine, and will need to be rebooted which takes time away from development tasks. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** Worksapces is great **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** doing cloud developments using AWS. Workpaces alows us to connect to other internally hosted software products that are used for our daily development. ### 18. Workspace **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Easy to do the deployment and user friendly to access it. Cost savings solution. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** It would be nice if Aws can provide the real windows10 image for the standard workspace. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Virtual desktop solutions ### 19. Remote Workers! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arnel M. | Cybersecurity Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Managing hardware for remote users and or temporary workers and contractors can cause a lot of issues with spin up and compliance in what is on their devices. Workspaces allows us to control what they use and what they can access regardless of what device they bring. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Web client is not as performant or good as installed client. Would be cool to have some sort of bootable OS or thumbdrive to ship. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** FOr quick and easy VDI WOrkspaces is a great place to look. You can control what is on the workspace along with where it can go and what it can access. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Remote workers and contractors provisioning equipment for work. ### 20. Create moses application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Individual & Family Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The setup and organizations. The templates are larger as well. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** It is a little slow when I login to the server I have. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** I like the setup. Sometimes it takes a while for the connection to log me in. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to share workspace with my funder and city hall. I make it easier for all to see the amazon workspace screen. ### 21. Amazon Workspaces **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason H. | Sr. Systems Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** I like that you can access your workspace from anywhere and on different platforms. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** I do not like that you can't share your workspace with another user and no out of the box RDP Access **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** would like to see the ability to share workspaces instead of just one user per workspace. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it as a VDI solution to access production workloads in different VPCs ### 22. Easy Setup VDIs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The best part of the solution is to have multiple size choices to choose based on what the user will be performing on the machine and now that they support Linux is awesome. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** We wanted Linux version of VDIs and now we have it. I like it. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** If you are applications are still hosted in on-premise, make sure you open necessary firewall ports for users to access the applications from their workspaces. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were having performance issues with existing VDI solution on Hyper-V. Now we are experience better performance results after moving to workspaces. ### 23. WOrkspaces **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** heidi s. | Sr. Data Architect Team, Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Seems to act just like a personal computer. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** We have had trouble determinng apporpriate sizeing of the workspace for perforemance. different team members have different software that are heavy consumers **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it for acccess to developer tools in AWS, chose to do this vs on prem develmoplment ### 24. Low overhead **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** shawn t. | Enterprise Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** low cost, flexible solution for providing our end users systems that are accessible from anywhere, anytime **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** somewhat limited flexibility in the architecture design, but getting better as new features are announced **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** replacing expensive on prem VDI infrastructure ### 25. Enable external partners secure, managed access to internal applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Centralized management, no need to manage individual PCs remotely, secure access to managed desktops, quick rollout and implementation, easy user enrollment, works from any device and endpoint **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** No pooled pricing option, need to recompose all workspaces when have to increase the size of subnets, needing separate AD connectors for each user group **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralized management, cycle time reduction for end users, improving user experience, ensuring end user device support ### 26. Good for admins, some issues for devs/power options **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** web based log in option, ease of setup, ease of user from the user perspective. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** issues with searching/indexing (known issue), sometimes experience crashes/freeze ups despite using power level workspaces. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** moved from vmware, was hosting vm host on prem and was able to move that out of data center. Multiple users in remote locations who do not have a company provided laptop to run company programs/data ### 27. Excellent Less-on-Prem hardware solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Elasticity. Procurement of more/less powerful machines takes minutes instead of months. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Nothing significant so far. Very minor latency; some administration tools. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are in the process of evaluating WorkSpaces instead of a traditional hardware refresh, which would not only save money, but also allow the business to respond quickly to changes in human resources and compute power. ### 28. Workspaces enables remote users to stay connected **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The ability to quickly stand up new desktops for remote users **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** No self service password change, and no forcing a user to change password on login when their password.expires in AD **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allow remote employees to access on site services. It is quick to standup and easy to use ### 29. seemless access to remote machines **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** I love seemless access to remote machines that are hosted on amazon workspaces. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** there is nothing to disclike about amazon workspaces. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** we wanted to have access to about 50 remote machines for our test env and we amazon workspaces was the solution we zeroed in on. ### 30. Limited Exposure but I like what I seeq **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Secure and work on multiple clients, conviently and easily **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** still working on this one, probably delivering the legal documents to our legal department and how long it takes to review them **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** work from anywhere securely and on the device of your choosing ### 31. Handy when it works **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Once set up correctly, it provides consistent environments for all of our developers. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** We had difficulties setting it up initially, but working with AWS it is getting better. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Each AWS WorkSpace environment is the same for all users and easy to provision. ### 32. Easy to use - easy to deliver **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Motion Pictures and Film | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** No need to deploy VMs. Easily supports custom apps. Gives users power to their desktop. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** I don't like the fat client. The web client is easier to use but doesn't always work for all VMs **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Access to desktop anywhere anytime ### 33. Ease of access. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric G. | Partner Development Rep, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** I like that the links allow for other users to modify information but retain the original as well. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** I don't like that sometimes in order to view information the previous user needs to log out and close prior to next user. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** None ### 34. Awesome **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Quick to provision. Secure. Excellent platform to trial software among a scalable user and tester base. Easy to refresh. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Inflexible pricing plan for persistent sessions and state machines. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick providioninh for trial software. ### 35. Great workspace to access anywhere **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis Filipe O. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The flexibility to work anywhere is fantastic and the possibility to work in various systems. You can have the application in Mac and windows. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The application is simple and works great, but we can't transfer files easily to the workspace. A functionality that can transfer files from our machine to the workspace via the application will make this fantastic. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** The app is simple to install, very easy to use and is fast. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to work remotely. Since I use a Mac, and the software is only available in windows this is the solution we have. But the best part is that we can continue working from every computer with internet. ### 36. just like ms remote desktop **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** it works. it's like remote desktop but it's inside the cloud environment **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** it's really, really dog slow to start your workspace **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** access to databases inside of aws without port forwarding ### 37. It's all right. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** I like the ability to run linux or Windows in the AWS stack **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The Mac client is very unstable and buggy. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving access to stateside resources to offshore developers. ### 38. Great for single use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Its great for admin users who just need to hop onto a computer **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Its sometimes a little laggy, and hard to manage applciations **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Admin compute workstations ### 39. use im my apple devices **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** the security and data prevent lost, can be used on bod **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** latence for Brazil is a probleme to access **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** security and compliance for 3rd parties ### 40. Workspaces review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Rapid delpoyment ` **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** off shore response time, would like to see more endpoints for authentication and use **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** Rapid deployment of user desktops **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** consolidated desktop management ### 41. Flexible **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Amazon WorkSpaces give us the flexiblity to Work from anywhere **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** interface has opportunity for improvement **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** Look for your DR design **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** scalibity ### 42. Recommended for All Who Travel Frequently **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ejaz M. | Head of Technology, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** In my opinion, WorkSpaces is a quite impressive and unique take of Amazon on cloud computing. Amazon has attempted to give users with true personal cloud experience. It is beyond simple cloud storage. I have prepared a Windows 7 PC with freedom of whatever kind of hardware I required. The best is it as true desktop experience and is just like using physical laptop or PCs I use. I have connected remotely from different ISP networks and it worked most of the times. I am thinking of leaving my personal laptop at home and use any low spec windows tab for accessing my WorkSpace. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Amazon can totally count me in on WorkSpaces if they can address the lag / latency issues which start randomly during sessions. Second thing to be addressed is the time Amazon App takes to connect to my WorkSpace. I understand that technically it can relate to my own ISP connection but I have faced the same issue of multiple networks since I travel a lot. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** Every IT professional show give WorkSpaces at least one shot. Its truly worth the time you will spent. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** As tech professional heading networks & software development teams in our Company which has more than 150 employees across the globe, I see a very plausible implementation of WorkSpaces, where I will create an active directory based LAN network and they can login to their workstations regardless of their locations and type of hardware they might have. This will help me in data protection, governance, maintenance of our custom software, plus ease of access for employees. ### 43. I use email only **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** I like that it allows you to have desktop notifications. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** There is no friendly way to check the email over an app on my phone. I have to log in on browser and is annoying. Also, is not mobile friendly. I haven't tried but it looks like there are no integrations to send mass email (like YAMM for gmail). It will not automatically forward emails to my zendesk either. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** Not mobile friendly, you can potentially have work-life balance this way. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communications. We have it integrated with zendesk too but is not very user friendly and we cannot forward emails automatically like in google. Because we have teams in China we use this server. ### 44. Fair cost/benefit **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** It contains multiple applications, some of them free. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** A little complicated to navigate. Some of the options like the s3 bucket are not very convenient when trying to find and pull information quickly. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** Train your users and coordinate transition with plenty of time **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Share multiple applications and folders with other users ### 45. Amazon review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James F. | Associate Data Scientist, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The application is very easy to navigate. I store all my data files on s3. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** I don't like how undeleting files in s3 requires undeleting files one at a time. Multi-undelete functionality would be useful. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** AWS products are used by our Analytics teams and Engineering teams, making it easy for transitions of projects from team to team. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're using AWS to train models, build features, store data. s3 is the underlying storage system for all data that our team uses and generates. ### 46. Great Idea **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jamie O. | Director - Business Development, Consulting Services & Projects , Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** I like how this is a great solution to access apps and docs form my desktop in the cloud from other devices. Brilliant! **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** I'm not sure as of yet. I assume security is solid but it's new and I'm not sure. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** Try a demo **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accessing business cases in meetings with customers when I don't have my laptop with me from my phone. ### 47. It's good **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sarah w. | Director of Acculturation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** What I like best about Amazon work space is it's easy and useful for work space. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** What I dislike about Amazon workspace is that I can not invite others to use it. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** Easy to use **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** What business problems that I am solving is an easy way to file share ### 48. Love AWS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** - Very useful services - Scales easily - Great technical support teams **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** - Pricing - Professional services / partner teams are not proactive **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Large file scraping at constant time and a fraction of the cost - Data consolidation into an AWS data lake for concurrent workloads ### 49. It Gets the Job Done **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marleigh G. | Media Coordinator, Law Practice, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** It is relatively easy to use. Once logged in, all of my information is accessible and the addition of a private data file is great. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** It can crash or give me issues while logging on. You should have strong internet service if you plan to use it. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps keep me organized and ensures there are backups to all important documents. ### 50. Easy to Use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Just use S3 for testing our sites on as staging server . **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Some of the UI experience is a little convoluted **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** dev / stage site testing ## Amazon WorkSpaces Discussions - [What are Amazon WorkSpaces?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-amazon-workspaces) - [What is the use of Amazon WorkSpaces?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-use-of-amazon-workspaces) - [what will be the news on Amazon WorkSpaces ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-will-be-the-news-on-amazon-workspaces) - 1 upvote - [Why it disconnected automatically even in strong network?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/35491-why-it-disconnected-automatically-even-in-strong-network) - 1 upvote - [Adding new users to a an Amazon Workspace](https://www.g2.com/discussions/34241-adding-new-users-to-a-an-amazon-workspace) - 1 upvote - [View Amazon WorkSpaces pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-workspaces/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-21+03%3A44%3A49+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=437b78b8-8baa-439c-93c3-74d64f2cb096&secure%5Btoken%5D=ee8a2f5337e060bc0e4bf704a6c4b4946ba425b7eb0bea82f1aa89f804d5fa7b&format=llm_user) ## Amazon WorkSpaces Integrations - [Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudwatch/reviews) ## Amazon WorkSpaces Features **Functionality** - Desktop Virtualization - Application Virtualization **Functionality** - Desktop Virtualization - Backend Hosting - Hybrid Desktop Hosting **Desktop Management** - Desktop Provisioning - Image Management - Load Balancing **Management** - Admin Console - Solution Integration - OS Compatibility - Cloud Infrastructure Selection **Support** - Multi-Device Portability **Security** - Two-Factor Authentication - Single Sign-On (SSO) - Encryption - Access Controls and Permissions ## Top Amazon WorkSpaces Alternatives - [Citrix DaaS](https://www.g2.com/products/citrix-citrix-daas/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (520 reviews) - [V2 Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/v2-cloud/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (236 reviews) - [Workspace ONE](https://www.g2.com/products/workspace-one/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (38 reviews)