Amazon WorkSpaces Core and Partner - Key features
Amazon WorkSpaces Core and Partner key feature releases
Phil Persson
Amazon Employee
Published Feb 27, 2025
Last Modified Mar 12, 2025
Amazon WorkSpaces Core is an infrastructure service that allows customers to bring their own third-party VDI solutions into AWS, powered by Amazon WorkSpaces. This means our customers are able to take advantage of the security and scalability of the AWS Cloud, continue to use familiar VDI management toolsets and being able to seamlessly integrate with their Microsoft 365 Applications for their end users.
Since its initial release November 2022, the Amazon WorkSpaces Core Service and Partner offerings has seen rapid evolution. This post aims to capture some of the high impact feature releases and consolidate these into a single easy to digest reference point.
This page will be updated periodically with major updates, links and releases (please refer to the AWS End User Computing What's New page for official updates as they occur).
| WorkSpaces Core Service Capability | Citrix DaaS | Omnissa Horizon | Workspot | Leostream | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating System Support | |||||
| Windows Desktop | 10 and 11 | 10 and 11 | 10 and 11 | 10 and 11 | 10 and 11 |
| Windows Server | 2019 and 2022 | 2019 and 2022 | 2019 and 2022 | Not available | Not available |
| Cost Optimization | |||||
| Power Management | Available | Not available | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Idle Timeout for user disconnect | Not applicable | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Key Features | |||||
| Pre-Deploy Pool of Instances | Available | Yes | Yes | Not available | Not available |
| Persistent Desktops | Available | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Non-Persistent Desktops | Not available [1] | Not applicable [1] | Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Multi-Session Instances | Available (WinServer) | Yes | Yes | Not available | Not available |
| Non-Assigned / User decoupled instances | Available | Yes | Yes | Not available | Yes |
| Application View Mode | Not applicable | Yes | Yes | Not available | Not available |
[1] Non-Persistent Desktops can be achieved using scripting and tooling provided by the VDI Solution Partner
- Feature release: Larger general purpose instance bundle support
27th February - Initial Publication
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