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Outside of college I've never been in a building with that kind of bandwidth. At a tech company office, sure, but they don't need to outsource this kind of thing. Your average small to medium business in my hometown has 3Mbps at best.
I have to agree with this. It has been a real pleasure to use. I have managed about 50 workspaces... but there has been some annoying things: - inability to modify workspace t-shirt size - workspace features using AWS services but mostly hidden - lack of ability to re-brand the client (i did rewrap the installer with custom artwork but breaks on upgrades). - Linux client... still waiting. (but can run under wine) - n…
inability to modify workspace t-shirt size What?
Funny thing, I need to use an amazon workspace from time to time for my job. I've managed to keep 100% Linux (for my personal boxes) professionally and at home for a good long time now, but a specific (and thankfully rare) access requirement was solved by using a Windows Amazon workspace. Guess what? No Linux workspaces client. So now to gain network access to a particular resource (a web address), I run the Windows…
Who are these people who have good enough internet connections for one reasonable Remote Desktop session, let alone dozens? Outside of college I've never been in a building with that kind of bandwidth. At a tech company office, sure, but they don't need to outsource this kind of thing. Your average small to medium business in my hometown has 3Mbps at best.
If you are interested in VDI without the complexity that comes with AWS check us out at https://www.paperspace.com (YCW15) a few key differences: - we can stream directly to a web browser without any plugins - you can fire up a new machine in just a few minutes - all of our machines have GPUs that make the experience feel great (we work with architects, engineers, and others that need a fluid desktop experience) - we…
Having access to a GPU is a great bonus too. Some of the coding we do involves deep learning and being able to provide GPU access to the developers rather than making them switch to a staging server to test things would be a big improvement.
I look forward to when you have capacity for new users!
Who are these people who have good enough internet connections for one reasonable Remote Desktop session, let alone dozens? Outside of college I've never been in a building with that kind of bandwidth. At a tech company office, sure, but they don't need to outsource this kind of thing. Your average small to medium business in my hometown has 3Mbps at best.
Once you graduate away from cable, it's pretty cheap in a central business district or office park. I think we have 100meg circuits everywhere now.
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Thanks for answering! Other providers for OS X solutions are super dodgy / shutdown / involve time sharing (no imaging, you store everything into a personal Dropbox). I ask about OS X support as the requirement for OS X to run Xcode kills a lot of iOS development workshops as the cost is to high / device availability is low. Thanks again for taking the time to answer.
I don't believe there is anything like RDP built into OSX, so I don't forsee anything like this for apple any time soon.
I love that this idea never goes away (in my first real career job, I supported actual dumb terminals that we replaced with desktops). It never seems to take off either, but it's always just about to. I don't mean to criticize! WorkSpaces sounds pretty great.
https://outrunchange.com/2011/11/05/the-computing-pendulum-h...
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It can be made to work under wine... or you can still use rdp.
The Workspaces FAQ appears to disagree, but I'd be interested in learning if one can indeed use RDP. https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/faqs/#Clients_User_Experie... "Q: Can I use any other client (e.g., an RDP client) with Amazon WorkSpaces? No. The only supported clients for WorkSpaces are the free clients provided by AWS."
If you use public IP addresses, just use that.. or leapfrog rdp through an ssh tunnel or VPN on a linux instance on the same VPC.
Something like this, to tunnel through a linux instance:
#!/bin/sh
sshuttle -D -r ubuntu@linuxinstance-in-vpc 172.16.X.0/24
xfreerdp +clipboard /rfx /smart-sizing:800 /d:CORP /u:demo /v:172.16.X.X