An effective tool for specific tasks
October 23, 2025

An effective tool for specific tasks

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon WorkSpaces saves a lot of time as it provides a isolated virtual desktop. Our main challenge was testing applications on on different java, cmd, powershell etc. and upgrading/degrading to its particular required version was like a nightmare, it created conflicts and broke the normal use of local machine earlier. Amazon WorkSpaces completely solve this, we can now freely configure our WorkSpace as per our requirement.

Pros

  • It gives us a virtual desktop machine which is completely configurable.
  • We can launch and terminate those machines as per our requirements
  • It eliminates software conflicts as we get clean system every time on launch

Cons

  • Idle Timeout should be configurable. If I forgot to switch off the WorkSpace, it continuously running and charging for that as well.
  • As an admin, there is no way to simply push the updates to all available WorkSpaces simultaneously. To achieve that we need to create golden image with patches and recreate workspaces for all the users which is time consuming.
  • WorkSpace of performance tier can't handle even light video editing. Slow rendering and significant lag can be seen all the time.
  • Before Amazon WorkSpaces, a developer was losing almost 1-2 hrs every time they had to switch projects that required a different environment like installing a particular version of JDK, changing powershell/cmd version, cleaning up conflicting libraries.
  • Our testing cycle of Applications with specific environmental dependencies has been reduced by 20%, which helps us deliver the project sooner.
  • WorkSpace is not a zero maintenance solution. We have to dedicate approximately 8-10 hours in a month to patch the WorkSpaces and handle the user administration.
For its Primary purpose in our organization, providing developers and testers a clean, isolated and configurable environments which saves hours. The usability is nearly perfect.
Usability is only suffering when user is into more intensive task like any kind of graphic works. At that time user is not experiencing the smoothness like a local machine.

Do you think Amazon WorkSpaces delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon WorkSpaces's feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon WorkSpaces live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Amazon WorkSpaces go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon WorkSpaces again?

Yes

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Well suited scenarios: Let suppose a startup company wants to save cost of hardware and allow their employees use their own system but concerned about the security of their data then they can just use Amazon WorkSpaces on which an user can just login and access the virtual desktop over internet to do their assigned work. Less appropriate situation: The users will feel lag while doing high end creative work or render video for editing. Even with more expensive GPU enabled instances, the performance doesn't match the local system performance as connecting to Amazon WorkSpaces always depends on the network bandwidth as well.

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