Amazon WorkSpaces Reviews & Product Details

Instead of creating several virtual machines and managing all the technical stuffs, Amazon helps to manage all of it by providing Workspaces.

For example, if there is a need to operate a separate Windows 10 OS and you do not have enough resources, Amazon workspaces can be the saviour! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Workspaces does not provide environment like Windows RDP, instead you need to use their Workspaces application. Management and Security is completely provided though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon workspace provides a secure and development-friendly environment preferred by many large companies. It acts as a medium between the user and the developer to interact with each other directly, and as a result, it meets all the necessary requirements. Amazon workspace provides us with separate cloud storage to store all the confidential files and reduce the dependencies on other storage spaces. We can access our files through AWS on multiple systems using login credentials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon workspace is costly and it requires a stable internet connectivity for better functionality. It has a complex infrastructure which requires professionals to work in it. Amazon workspace customer support is not good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be customized so perfectly for a thin client PC or mobile

Reliability and support are 10++ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing is a little high compared to MS cloud based clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Workspaces has provided a cost effective solution in our organization. Our organization is providing AWS solution to the contractors instead of providing them the laptop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Workspaces most of the times has audio integration issues. Sometimes the Amazon Workspace goes to unhealthy state all of a sudden and the Workspace won't be available for login. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon workspaces provides a modern way to remove physical computers costing.

Amazon workspaces provides uptime 99.9%

It has all features like mailing,video and audio streaming just like a normal computer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it uses high cpu utilisation,even network gets blocked due to major latency while usage.

The regions which act as a data center sometimes lacks connectivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is similar to the work environment which we use daily. We can install all the softwares which are needed. It gives a feel that we are working directly from our local VDI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To access the workspace we need to do an extra work like going to a browser, login with respective credentials. Since it is residing in cloud there may be performance issues while connecting to the workspace and users may experience some lag while working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon workspaces are the best systems for remote work. No matter where you are or what system configuration you use, you can log into workspaces and access the remote machine to complete your work. One of the advantages for the organisations is that they can restrict access to their GitHub codebases through organization-regulated Amazon workspaces only. Similarly one can restrict the DB access for particular IPs of the workspaces. It has RHEL-based Amazon Linux, very convenient to you and development centric. Another plus point is, that the system inside the workspaces doesn't restart if you just close the workspace and leave thus you can instantly access system to the point where you left off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you are the one who has internet with high ping, Amazon workspaces will give you trouble. Sometimes when the internet speed drops, the system in the workspaces is too slow to work. Regardless, it slows down a lot when you use the system over time without restarting it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a lot of things that I like about Amazon Workspaces:

1. Accessibility: It allows you to access your desktop remotely wherever and whenever you want.

2. Security: Due to different security reasons it becomes impossible to allow people to work directly on client data which is sensitive. For that a new secure environment is created using Virtual machines and Amazon workspaces is one of the leading players in this area.

3. Configurability: These virtual machines are super easy to configure to the requirements that we have for a particular task. We do not need to have a physical system with different configurations. We just need a Virtual machine which can be configured according to the requirements of the deliverable.

4. Compatibility: Amazon workspaces makes it easy to install any OS of choice, be it Linux, Windows or Mac OS. It is super easy to configure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a few things which I dislike about Amazon Workspaces:

1. Connectivity: It lags a lot. Even if we have good internet connectivity bandwidth it lags and sometimes disconnects. It also freezes sometimes to which a solution that we figured out is clicking 'Alt' key.

2. Does not Resume: Whenever it disconnects the AWS needs a restart sometimes and all the local environments inside the Amazon workspaces stops and have to start things from scratch, which becomes little annoying at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS is user friendly, flexible. It is cost effective to use for any projects not depending on cost. It is a virtual computing environment where we can different operating systems and applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While using AWS, many of them faces issues like getting struck, lag and not able to connect to vds. As there are many users for AWS, there are some cloud computing issues few times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon WorkSpaces is fantastic, and we can easily access it anywhere. Ability to use for remote work with the highest security provided by amazon. It has a clean and very Simple UI, which is very good for understanding everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it disconnects randomly, which is very irritating and causes a loss of workforce. Also, if the price is higher than other market competitors, the price should be lesser, and more servers should be added for better performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.