How-To Building a Desktop-as-a-Service Environment in the AWS Cloud, Part 2: Create a WorkSpace After previously stepping through how to create an Active Directory environment, Brien Posey continues ...

Yesterday at AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a virtual desktop service called Amazon WorkSpaces that promises to provide Windows 7 desktops on demand to almost any client device.

Under the changes, AWS customers can pay for WorkSpaces by the hour and get 80 GB of root volume. WorkSpaces is AWS' virtual desktop effort designed to support multiple devices.