Thursday, February 25, 2021

AWS Workspace on Covid

 


We knew 2020 was highly challenging year across the world due to Covid virus spread.  Entire world was forced to work remotely.

Traditionally we have supplied our software engineers with desktop machines rather than laptops in order to get maximum computing power for the money spent. With the pandemic they all went home and took their desktop machines with them, and have been working from there ever since. As the world is recovering back with the potential for a return to office.

The current remote situation leads to one solution to consider Amazon Workspaces, which is a desktop EC2 instance connected to your network via Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud, and streamed to a client.

It would indeed be more flexible to have your own development environment directly within the cloud. Earlier, AWS shared free tier version to explore/experience AWS Workspaces.  It seems there is another extension of the Free Tier ongoing up until 31st of July 2021.

Technical insights are available at https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/faqs/

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