Workspot supports desktops and application servers in the Amazon WorkSpaces Core Cloud. As with other Clouds, you configure Workspot Control with limited access to your Cloud subscription. Control manages your desktops, application servers, and RD gateways.
This article is a general overview. See also the following procedural articles:
To use Workspot with an existing Amazon WorkSpaces Core deployment, see Integrating Workspot Control and Amazon Workspaces Core.
To create a new Amazon WorkSpaces Core deployment for use with Workspot, see Getting Started with Amazon WorkSpaces Core.
Features
Standard Workspot Cloud features, including:
Persistent and non-persistent desktop pools (Cloud desktop pools).
Application server pools (Cloud app pools).
Managed RD gateways (Public Cloud gateway clusters).
Template management (apply template to pool, add/build/clone/publish/delete templates).
User/Group management (assign resource access by AD/Entra ID group membership or to individual users).
Amazon-specific options, all selected on a per-pool basis:
Use of shared server instances or dedicated instances.
Hourly Amazon usage billing (standard) or flat-rate monthly billing (contact Workspot).
Power management: select between hibernation and shutdown as the power-managed state on a per-pool basis, with “Never Time Out” also selectable via per-pool Time Limits Policies.
Limitations
Monthly Flat-Rate Pool Limitations
Power Management Limitations
Sleep states (shutdown or hibernation) are disabled on monthly flat-rate pools.
Maintenance policies and warmup policies, which exist to wake up desktops in a sleep state, are disabled.
Imaging-Based Limitations
Amazon bills monthly flat-rate VMs for an entire month the instant they are created. If you delete an existing VM and create a replacement, you are billed for two VMs for an entire month (and for one VM thereafter). This applies to all forms of reimaging. For this reason:
The “Update Image” command on the “Resources > Manage Cloud Desktop Pools” page has been disabled.
But it still enabled on the “Resources > Manage Cloud App Pools” page.
For non-persistent pools, the “Refresh Periodically” setting is forced to “Never” on new pools.
“Auto Create on Delete Desktop” is still available, but should not be enabled.