--- title: Amazon WorkSpaces Reviews meta_title: 'Amazon WorkSpaces Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 109 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon WorkSpaces works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 109 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-15' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # 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:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 109 ## 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. 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 ### 2. Great way to spin up desktops quickly **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The speed at which you can build a desktop. You can keep your developers working with no delay. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** It is billed per hour, so we have to make sure sessions are not being wasted. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can provide developers with new machines for development of new technologies without imaging a new computer each time. It definitely reduces the need for hardware. ### 3. Amazon workspaces **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The ease of setting up systems for new employees or contractors without having to buy hardware and computers **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** There is nothing to dislike. It is an awesome product **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** absolutely remove your desktops and computers and go cloud **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Do not have to buy the computers Easily accessible from anywhere as long as we have internet connection Everything is cloud based ### 4. Good system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The system is fast and flexible at the same time **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** So far, I do not dislike anything, but I have not been using it for long enough **Recommendations to others considering Amazon WorkSpaces:** Highly recommended. The pay-as-you-go plan is very helpful for small businesses. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving the inability to work during time away from my office by ### 5. product and services are some of the easiest and best virtual workspaces I have worked with **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** the product and services are some of the easiest one available. It has the best virtual worskpace i had ever worked with **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** NOt always easy to implement. Interface esssentially non functional in android **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Business problems like virualization. Remote desktopping etc werre the good benefits of it. ### 6. Not as expected **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** I really love the flexibility to work anywhere. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The system is MUCH slower than we were told it would be. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** I love the ability to login from any workstation! ### 7. Best place to collaborate **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The way Amazon workspaces enables collaboration between colleagues is out of the box **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** It is good to use but gives less agility in terms of integrating with external systems **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using amazon web services as a platform as well as for backup ### 8. Great virtual workspace for users **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** The ability to app stream out to users and quarentine work for contractors **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Cost can be prohibting and the entry time can be a challenge **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to reliably scale out VM to other users is amazing ### 9. AWS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Great savings, Flexibility and Agile helping us quickly spin up the environments any time. **What do you dislike about Amazon WorkSpaces?** Dependency like always reaching out for issues. **What problems is Amazon WorkSpaces solving and how is that benefiting you?** Infrastructure dependency and security issues. ## 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=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-02+15%3A36%3A59+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=6c0a6c57-0150-426a-878b-26474aef5980&secure%5Btoken%5D=a5f8284636bbdd0fbe7bb688bf687f0a82268bb662da899ac8d3e3d2bcc63707&format=llm_user) ## Amazon WorkSpaces Integrations - [Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudwatch/reviews) - [Keka](https://www.g2.com/products/keka/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)