Amazon wants you to run Windows 7 on its cloud with WorkSpaces

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Amazon made the public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud a major force in business IT with its Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Now, the retail giant is betting that it can do the same with its new virtual desktop offering: Amazon WorkSpaces.


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Amazon is far from the first to explore the idea of the Desktop-as-a-Service in the cloud. Toshiba, Dell, and VMware are all giving it a try. None, however, have Amazon's cloud chops.

Here's how Amazon WorkSpaces will work. The service will offer you a choice of desktop service bundles providing different hardware and software options to meet your business's needs. Each bundle provides a Windows 7 like desktop based on the Windows Server 2008R2 using its Destkop Experience Role. These, in turn, run off AWS.


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Amazon wants you to run Windows 7 on its cloud with WorkSpaces | ZDNet
 

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