{"id":9438,"date":"2013-11-13T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/nov\/13\/aws-launches-amazon-workspaces-aims-shake-vdi-market\/"},"modified":"2013-11-13T15:14:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T15:14:09","slug":"aws-launches-amazon-workspaces-aims-to-shake-up-vdi-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/aws-launches-amazon-workspaces-aims-to-shake-up-vdi-market\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS launches Amazon WorkSpaces, aims to shake up VDI market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services (AWS) has today launched Amazon WorkSpaces, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution with data all stored in the cloud, at its AWS re:Invent show in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning keynote Andy Jassy, AWS senior vice president, announced the launch alongside giving a few soundbites about how far ahead of the pack Amazon is &ndash; as well as an obligatory pot shot at cloud competitor IBM.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon WorkSpaces, as Jassy explained, aims to go where previous VDI technology has failed, because the sector hasn&rsquo;t taken off in the way it should have done.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You get to live that dream of centrally managing your desktops, but with no hardware, no software, no infrastructure, and no long term commitments,&rdquo; Jassy said.<\/p>\n<p>WorkSpaces has a flexible structure, with customers able to consume licences from Amazon, or use licences bought already. Importantly, as all the data resides in the cloud &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services (AWS) has today launched Amazon WorkSpaces, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution with data all stored in the cloud, at its AWS re:Invent show in Las Vegas.<br \/>\nIn the morning keynote Andy Jassy, AWS senior vice president, ann&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}