Amazon AppStream 2.0 - Enterprise Customer Use Cases
Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed non-persistent application and desktop streaming service that provides users access to desktop applications from anywhere through HTML5 web clients. It sits in the AWS End User Computing (EUC) business unit. Other services in AWS EUC include Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon WorkSpaces Web (not to be confused with WorkSpaces) and Amazon WorkDocs. This blog is not a tutorial on AppStream 2.0. After all, each customer may find different use cases for this flexible yet powerful AWS service. In this piece, I discuss several scenarios that saw AppStream 2.0 help some of my enterprise customers with their specific needs. The non-persistent admin desktops People call AppStream 2.0 a non-persistent ‘virtual desktop’ service. These virtual end-user compute sessions, powered in the backend by an elastic AppStream fleet and in a presenting form of an application streaming service, are torn down once the user sessions are completed. This characteristic means: What a