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EXPERT OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE
500M - 1B USD, Healthcare and BiotechFAVORABLE
“A reliable virtual desktop solution that works well for growing, remote teams but requires thoughtful setup and expectations.”
Overall, our experience with Amazon WorkSpaces has been positive. It has helped us standardize work environments and onboard new team members quickly, especially in a remote-first setup. The service is reliable for day-to-day work and fits well with our existing AWS infrastructure.
That said, it's not completely frictionless. Performance can vary depending on connection quality and workload, and some aspects of the user experience feel more geared toward technical users. Despite that, it has met our core needs and has been a dependable solution overall.
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50M - 250M USD, Finance (non-banking)CRITICAL
“Spotty Connections and Workflow Disruptions Experienced With AWS Workspaces for Engineers”
AWS workspace has been far from ideal and does not feel suitable for day-to-day collaboration as a Software Engineering. We used it as an alternative way to provide secure, remotely manageable workstations for our remote employees, in lieu of a dedication work laptop. While it does provide minimal latency and allows us to scale a provision each workstation independently, the spotty connections and lack of continuous stream support mean that doing online conferencing, for example, was not possible. In the end, developers had to have a duo setup between using workspaces for some coding work and native desktop for remote collaboration which defeats the whole purpose of our needs of having a secured, managed workstation.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.
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Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
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- Director50M-1B USDFinance (non-banking)Review Source
Spotty Connections and Workflow Disruptions Experienced With AWS Workspaces for Engineers
AWS workspace has been far from ideal and does not feel suitable for day-to-day collaboration as a Software Engineering. We used it as an alternative way to provide secure, remotely manageable workstations for our remote employees, in lieu of a dedication work laptop. While it does provide minimal latency and allows us to scale a provision each workstation independently, the spotty connections and lack of continuous stream support mean that doing online conferencing, for example, was not possible. In the end, developers had to have a duo setup between using workspaces for some coding work and native desktop for remote collaboration which defeats the whole purpose of our needs of having a secured, managed workstation. - EXPERT OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE50M-1B USDHealthcare and BiotechReview Source
A reliable virtual desktop solution that works well for growing, remote teams but requires thoughtful setup and expectations.
Overall, our experience with Amazon WorkSpaces has been positive. It has helped us standardize work environments and onboard new team members quickly, especially in a remote-first setup. The service is reliable for day-to-day work and fits well with our existing AWS infrastructure. That said, it's not completely frictionless. Performance can vary depending on connection quality and workload, and some aspects of the user experience feel more geared toward technical users. Despite that, it has met our core needs and has been a dependable solution overall. - Manager, It Security And Risk Management<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Remote work experience improved but affected by bugs and slowness
My personal experience with the product has been satisfactory because it has allowed us to create a new way of working remotely without needing to invest in powerful hardware. However, we have experienced many bugs in the product, which we have duly reported to the manufacturer's support, causing some problems with a few users. - Business Development Associate<50M USDSoftwareReview Source
Reliable and secure managed desktop solution for a global workforce
Amazon Workspaces has provided our organization with a highly secure and reliable desktop as a service (DaaS) Solution. It allowed is to rapidly onboard remote contractors and employees without the logistical overhead of shipping physical hardware, the persistent desktops ensure that our user have a consistent experience across any device they use. - IT SERVICES ASSOCIATE50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
Remote desktop platform facilitates remote work and efficient administration
Using Amazon Workspaces at our institution has yielded excellent results, as we were looking for a comprehensive remote desktop service with all the necessary features. We've been able to reach a significant number of users who can utilize virtual machines, facilitating remote work from anywhere and supporting the development of activities and projects.
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