Before Amazon’s Wednesday announcement on its WorkSpaces service, VMware earlier this month launched its Horizon DaaS, based on the company’s acquisition of Desktone.

Amazon is rolling out a new way for businesses to use its cloud-based virtual desktop service, Amazon WorkSpaces. Instead of paying monthly for access to an always-on WorkSpace you can connect to ...

There’s a new challenger in the desktop virtualization space. Amazon just announced Amazon WorkSpaces, a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud. WorkSpaces sits higher in the stack ...

You'll be able to run these virtual desktops with the Amazon WorkSpaces client on both Windows and Mac computers. Amazon will also be providing clients for the iPad, Kindle Fire, and Android tablets.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) evangelist Jeff Barr posted a short video online Friday to show AWS customers how to use WorkSpaces, Amazon's fully managed Desktop-as-a-Service, on the Samsung Galaxy S8.

Amazon WorkSpaces offers secure, scalable virtual desktops through a shared responsibility model, which ensures AWS manages the cloud infrastructure while customers retain responsibility for ...