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Desktop and application virtualization
From the course: CCSP Cert Prep: 1 Cloud Concepts, Architecture, and Design
Desktop and application virtualization
- [Instructor] As companies turn to telecommuting and other remote work arrangements, the demand increases for technologies that allow remote users to easily interact with enterprise systems from their homes and other locations. Virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI solutions, take the power of virtualization and apply it to desktop technology. Users can use any system of their choice to access a desktop environment. That's running on a remote server. This might be a VDI solution running in the company's own data center, or a cloud-based VDI product like Amazon WorkSpaces. Let's take a look at how Amazon WorkSpaces functions. I'm here at the desktop on my Mac, and it has the Amazon WorkSpaces software client installed. Let's start it up. As Amazon WorkSpaces loads, it asks me for credentials. This is the username and password set by my organization that I use to log in to WorkSpaces. I'm going to go ahead and provide…
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