Amazon WorkSpaces Reviews

I use it as my laptop. It's my virtual machine. I use it for everything I do at work, including using it for managing the systems and the servers.

The most valuable feature is the mobility. I can use it anywhere. 

If I don't have my regular laptop, I can use my resources on it anywhere I go. Also, the flexibility is very good.

The speed and performance are not always the greatest. It can be improved.

Video and audio conferencing are areas that need to be improved. 

When you're using it on a laptop for conferencing, you need to enhance the video. This is because you cannot do video conferencing on an Amazon WorkSpace. Rather, you're on a different laptop and dialing into it. 

Overall performance and video conferencing platforms, whether it's WebEx, Teams, or Skype, all need improvement.

I have been using Amazon Workspaces for three years.

The stability is good with Amazon Workspaces.

It's a scalable solution. My understanding is that it is basically the price of the machine.

We are limited to the cost.

We have approximately 600 to 800 users in our organization with most being IT, some are business partners but most are centric to technology people.

It's not in my realm of responsibilities. My counterpart or partner team take care of it.

Previously, we used Citrix Managed Desktops for a very limited about of time.

Citrix was the most user-friendly and there were too many issues.

The initial setup is straightforward.

We have a team of three, four max, to maintain this solution.

There are several different options available, but it can range anywhere from $85 to $150 a month per machine.

The cost is based on the capacity and the resources of the machine itself.

I recommend it. Definitely. 

It's a very flexible solution, scalable, and easy to use. 

You can use it from any device, whether you have an iPad, or if you have a laptop, a Mac, or if you have Windows. You can use it on every platform that supports Google Chrome.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We have a lot of cases with Amazon WorkSpaces, including one where we rolled it out for more than 180 users on the cloud in a span of two days, and for this, we used the solution as a remote tool. So, it is a great solution. Also, it is a very secure tool.

Amazon WorkSpaces is very suitable for projects and scenarios where the equipment is not prepared to provide remote access or doesn't have an infrastructure to run the apps anywhere.

Feature-wise, I value the simplicity of deployment and the security of the solution. Speaking about costs, it is very flexible. So, it is a great option for some cases, and it depends on the tool's usage. Nonetheless, it is a great tool.

The solution lacks a shadow mode option, and it needs to have it. Right now, the solution is used on a one-to-one basis, so each user needs to have their own desktop. I know that it is similar to AppStream, but it would be great to have an option of WorkSpaces in shadow mode, where the customer has just a server with multiple sessions. So, it needs something that is comparable to Azure's pooling option. So it will be great to have this kind of option because Azure has, and Amazon doesn't have, such an option.

I have experience with Amazon WorkSpaces. Also, I am using the solution's latest version. We have a partnership with Amazon.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

I rate the solution's support a ten out of ten.

Positive

It is very simple to deploy. The solution is deployed on the cloud. It is a very simple tool, so it is not difficult to implement.

I have seen a return on investment using the solution.

I think that the price can be lower. We have cases where the customer needs to have lower costs. So since we don't have options, like, shadow mode, they need to decrease pricing or have other models for reduced pricing.

It's very important to understand the profile of users to be able to pick the best from WorkSpaces and to select the best family of businesses to get the right experience on the cloud. So, it is important to know the profile of the users when you are moving to Amazon WorkSpaces.

I rate the overall tool a ten out of ten.

We use the solution for our regular day-to-day work. It's a BYOD: bring your own device and use WorkSpaces to connect to the company network.

The solution has improved the organization because now any user who doesn't have a corporate laptop can connect to the system, security is still high, and it uses very low bandwidth.

All of the features are good. The maintenance part is good. They maintain it and manage it very well.

An area that could be improved is it could work better on VPN. On VPN, it gets some issues, and frequent disconnections happen.

I have been using the solution for 16 months.

The stability of the solution is very good. We don't have issues.

The solution is fully scalable. Around 135 users are using it, and they're almost on all levels, leading from director, senior manager, manager to interns.

We haven't faced many issues with the solution, so we hardly went to AWS for support issues. We connected with the sales guy; he was able to help us with the small issues that we had.

The initial setup was straightforward. Very easy to do.

Within two days we were able to provide WorkSpaces to our 100 users; within just two days. We just synced our Active Directory and it was done.

I completed the deployment myself, and we have three engineers to manage the solution.

The solution is not very cheap and it is not too pricey.

We actually evaluated the VMware VDI solution but that was getting costly for us so we went with AWS WorkSpaces.

For anyone looking at the solution, I can say that it is a good solution and within well-defined price ranges, and a very scalable one. People should try this one. It's just a very good thing; we use it, and we see the value that we are having. The best thing is the integration is very easy.

I would rate the solution an 8.5 out of ten, because I haven't worked with the support team and because of the VPN issues.

Sometimes for security purposes in AWS, I need to log the IPs. So I use WorkSpaces to ensure it doesn't disrupt my work. AWS has a lot of IPs, and using WorkSpaces helps me with that.

The best thing about Amazon WorkSpaces is the security it provides.

One area that can be improved is the ability to install third-party apps. Currently, it's not possible to install any app that I have created on Amazon WorkSpaces. I've tried, but I couldn't install it.

So, third-party apps are a limitation. In future releases, I would like to see the ability to install third-party apps would be a significant improvement. It would make WorkSpaces more versatile and configurable.

I've been using Amazon WorkSpaces for around eight to six months.

It's very stable. I haven't faced any major issues with stability.

Amazon WorkSpaces is scalable, and it meets my requirements well.

The initial setup of WorkSpaces is easy. It's a user-friendly process.

I would suggest you use it. It has been a valuable tool for me.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. While it's a scalable product, it's not fully comprehensive in terms of functionality.

We use Amazon WorkSpaces for security purposes. 

The product is easy to access. You can access the solution from anywhere at any time. 

The tool's most valuable feature is its ease of use. It has a lot of plugins and features. 

Amazon WorkSpaces needs to improve its pricing. 

I have been using the product for one year. 

I rate the solution's stability a nine out of ten. 

I rate Amazon WorkSpaces' scalability a nine out of ten. 

Amazon has good technical support. You need to call the call center, and your issue will be resolved based on the priority and SLA. 

Amazon WorkSpaces' deployment is straightforward. 

I rate the product a nine out of ten. 

I used it for a particular project for a customer. We used it as a VDR solution.

This solution has improved our organization's functioning.

Performance and scalability are valuable features. 

Configuration was a bit complicated at first but manageable.

In future releases, I would like to see more user-friendly administrator controls.

I have been using it for six months.

I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. 

I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten. 

The customer service and support was good. 

Positive

I would rate my experience with the initial setup a seven out of ten, with ten being easy. 

The deployment took three days. We did it in-house. We deployed it ourselves. We were a four-person team. 

I would rate the ROI an eight out of ten, with ten being a hundred percent ROI. 

It is very expensive. I would rate the pricing model a ten out of ten, with ten being the most expensive. There are additional costs to the standard licensing fees.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We use the solution as a virtual machine to run applications.

We can work remotely using the solution. It is effortless to connect to it from anywhere through the browser.

The solution's features for the hardware version work slowly for Windows machines. They should make regularisations to improve this particular area.

We have been using the solution for more than two years.

The solution's stability could be better.

The solution's technical support team could respond faster to critical issues. They take 24 to 48 hours to get back.

Neutral

We preferred using the solution for better security.

The solution's initial setup is quite simple.

The solution is expensive. I advise others to check which licensing models suits their business requirements best.

I advise others to understand their business use cases before opting for the solution. If you are running heavy software, purchase a heavier workspace. I rate the solution a six out of ten.

We are using Amazon WorkSpaces for our everyday office use.

For our software development, we use Azure Desktop.

The most valuable features are easy provisioning, Active Directory, and mobile access.

If they had a cheaper option for graphics pro, I think that it would be beneficial and I would use it. 

I have been working with Amazon WorkSpaces for six months.

It's a stable solution. We have not had any issues.

It's a scalable solution. It's easy to scale.

We had an Amazon account and from there, we connected to the Amazon WorkSpaces. 

We also use Azure a lot for software development.

The initial setup was very easy.

The bundle works out to be approximately $20.00 per month.

If they have custom development or anything custom, they should probably look at other solutions. All of the pricing adds up to be quite a bit.

If it is all-inclusive pricing for a single user or for two users then it would be a lot cheaper.

I would rate Amazon WorkSpaces an eight out of ten.