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.
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.
