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Amazon Jumps Into Desktop Virtualization With "WorkSpaces"
mattydread23 writes "Amazon is getting into the desktop virtualization space. This is potentially huge news for providers like Citrix, but as writer Nancy Gohring points out, the company is starting small. Very small: 'The administrator console only allows managers to provision five WorkSpaces at a time. It's possible that will change when the service becomes generally available. For now, Amazon is accepting sign ups for a limited preview of the service. '"
They're providing 5 workspaces. Eventually someone will make a few accounts so they can have multiple sections of 5 workspaces and he/she will call them groups. Thus Amazon for Workgroups will be born.
Google Hangouts are mostly for general groups of people. I expect Google to release a version tailored to work groups as well.
Amazon for Workgroups. Google for Workgroups. It seems Windows was ahead of it's time.
Yeah, it's wildly overpriced for the value it provides. I'm generally fond of Amazon and I think Bezos is a genius but I think this idea is a real dud. Computers suitable for most office drones just aren't very expensive and any company that cares about employees being able to access desktops from remote locations already have VPNs setup.
Are agnostics skeptical of unicorns too?
All nonsense. While I'm no fan of "desktop in the cloud" - anyone that uses RDP regularly knows that responsiveness is not that much of a problem anymore. As long as Amazon throws enough network & hardware resources at this it'll work fine. The real question is whether it's economical.