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VMware Dynamic Environment Manager + Amazon WorkSpaces and WorkSpaces Coreĭynamic Environment Manager (DEM) added support for Amazon WorkSpaces and WorkSpaces Core with the Horizon 2203 release.ĭEM works behind the scenes to ensure a consistent desktop feel as end users move between physical, virtual, and cloud PCs.

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Please note, advanced functions such as instant clone provisioning, which depend on vSphere, are not applicable with manual desktop pools. Manual desktop pools enable Horizon to broker a variety of machine types, including non-vSphere VMs and physical PCs, with the same great end-user experience. In this model, you can create manual desktop pools of your WorkSpaces or WorkSpaces Core instances. Advanced management features such as cloud pod architecture provide IT admins consistency in tooling across hybrid- and multi-cloud deployments. VMware Blast protocol enables end users to choose any device and work from any location, while providing an excellent experience.

Horizon 8 added support for Amazon WorkSpaces and WorkSpaces Core with the 2209 release. VMware Horizon 8 + Amazon WorkSpaces and WorkSpaces Core Choose one or all VMware technologies to enhance your Amazon WorkSpaces and WorkSpaces Core implementations to fit your needs. The VMware and Amazon partnership provides you with choice and flexibility as you navigate through various multi-cloud deployment options.

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With Horizon Universal Subscription starting at $12.50/user/month, WorkSpaces Core allows you to purchase your desktops - and bring your own Horizon license - for about the same total price as a traditional WorkSpaces instance! VMware and Amazon: a “better-together” story WorkSpaces Core instance: 2 vCPU, 8GB memory, 100GB storage = $ 36.80/month WorkSpaces instance: 2 vCPU, 8GB memory, 100GB storage = $ 48.00/month You might be wondering how much of a discount you get with WorkSpaces Core, so let’s run through an example using pricing data available at the time of this writing. Once you have your BYOP entitlement, you are ready to provision your WorkSpaces Core instances and add the Horizon Agent. WorkSpaces Core requires a bring-your-own-protocol (BYOP) entitlement on your AWS account. Amazon WorkSpaces CoreĪmazon WorkSpaces Core enables you to purchase WorkSpaces instances without the WSP or PCoIP bits included, and at a discounted rate. Existing Horizon 8 customers can leverage cloud pod architecture to manage multiple pods either on premises or on Amazon WorkSpaces. The Horizon Agent can be installed on these WorkSpaces instances to enable a superior end-user experience using VMware Blast Protocol. WorkSpaces instances are created with either the Amazon WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) or PCoIP display protocol bits included in the VMs.

Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed desktop computing service in the cloud available on various devices and browsers.

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So, what’s the difference between Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon WorkSpaces Core, and which should you use with Horizon? Read on to learn more.Īmazon WorkSpaces is a cloud-based desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering that enables organizations to provide Windows and Linux desktop instances.

With Amazon WorkSpaces Core, you now get the same great joint solution, but at an even better price. As part of this release, we also support Amazon WorkSpaces Core instances for Horizon. This release provides the ability to use Horizon infrastructure components to run on premises or in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), while brokering desktops and desktop-based apps running in Amazon WorkSpaces. Starting with Horizon 2209, we announced support for Amazon WorkSpaces. VMware Horizon 8 provides a multi-cloud VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) and app solution that can run in your on-premises data center or a variety of public clouds - including Amazon Web Services (AWS) - to broker virtual and physical desktops with a best-in-class end-user experience. In this blog we’ll share the progress that we’ve made and what you can expect from this joint solution. Last year we announced our intent to collaborate with Amazon to integrate with WorkSpaces Core and bring our customers even more choice of platforms on which to run VMware Horizon.

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