Streamline Your Desktop Operations and Improve Security with Amazon WorkSpaces - November 2016 Webinar Series

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Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy GroupNathan Thomas, General Manager, Amazon WorkSpaces

November 10, 2016

Streamline Desktop Operations with Amazon WorkSpaces

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Desktop-as-a-service (DaaS): Greater Operational Control, Reduced Costs, and Secure Workspaces

Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst

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While workplace mobility offers a number of benefits, it has also presented IT with a number of daily and long-term strategy challenges

Timely employee request

fulfillment. 

Supporting contractors and temporary staff with a productive workspace

Merger and acquisition assistance

Increased application development and engineering

activity

Providing and managing temporary desktops

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IT expenditures as they solve their mounting challenges

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Desktop and application delivery challenges loom across the business

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The Upside (and Downside) of VDI

Simplified desktop management

Efficient desktop provisioning

Centralized secure image management

Simplified patching and upgrades

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The Upside (and Downside) of VDI

Complex infrastructure that is difficult for IT to plan, configure, manage, and maintain.

Unfavorable economics that tip the ROI equation in the wrong direction with unutilized capacity, heavily weighted upfront invest costs, and cumbersome IT operations.

Unpredictable global access based on the proximity of users due to low network bandwidth and unacceptable latency.

Time-consuming implementations that involve multiple IT disciplines and months of planning, testing, and staging of infrastructure.

Difficult root cause analysis and troubleshooting among multiple IT teams (e.g., server, storage, networking, endpoint, and security) leading to prolonged troubleshooting and unproductive users.

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Desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) is a viable alternative to VDI: Employee, business and IT benefits

DaaS gives end-users the flexibility to work from anywhere, anytime, and on any device without the cost and complexity of traditional VDI infrastructure.

Workers are no longer tethered to traditional desktops or laptops; remote and seasonal employees, and contractors are able to access the necessary applications and services they need to perform their job functions.

Employees can avoid navigating through cumbersome VPN connections that impair access and lengthen login times.

Collaboration and communication are simplified with virtual workspaces as employees have access to the tools and resources they need to work together and interact in a productive team setting.

Younger end-users entering the workforce are able to communicate in ways that mimic their personal communication experiences, enabling greater productivity and providing an enhanced user experience on the devices they are already comfortable using.

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Desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) is a viable alternative to VDI: Employee, business and IT benefits

DaaS offers organizations the agility to quickly adapt to new business opportunities, with favorable economics.

Organizations are able to rapidly scale up or down depending on specific requirements, new employees, mergers and acquisitions, and global growth.

IT can more easily integrate, consolidate, and deliver services and applications when and where they are needed, in a predictable and orderly fashion and without having to directly touch every endpoint.

Businesses are able to reduce capital expenditures, as well as operational costs, while at the same time streamlining IT maintenance and infrastructure management.

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Desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) is a viable alternative to VDI: Employee, business and IT benefits

With data breaches occurring more often than ever before, security is top of mind for nearly every IT initiative. The BYOD trend is feeding the proliferation of non-corporate devices used in the workplace—presenting an increased attack surface for potential security breaches. DaaS

Helps organizations meet security policy requirements and compliance standards by using protocols to compress, encrypt, and encode data so that only images are transmitted and data no longer resides on local devices.

Enables the creation of developer-style environments, granting developers quick and secure access to end-user environments for seamless development and testing, without impeding user productivity.

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Desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) is a viable alternative to VDI: Employee, business and IT benefits

Allows developers to move fast and fail fast with access to desktop resources when they need them

Keeps business data secure, centrally managed, and accessible to users.

Places a productive workspace in the hands of end-users near instantaneously, while supporting secure access from multiple device types.

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Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst

Managed Desktops in the Cloud

Nathan ThomasGeneral Manager, Amazon WorkSpaces

Native Experience

Global Availability

Client Choice

Pay As You Go

Amazon WorkSpaces Are Cloud Desktops

Identity & Policy

Authentication

APIs for Automation

Customer Driven Innovation

Hybrid Cloud Desktop Management

Everyone Is Mobile

Everyone Has a Device and a Network

Everyone Is A Security Endpoint

But Everyone Still Needs Business Apps

Your End Users Are Evolving

Mobile By Design

Enables BYOD

No Data on Devices

Use Existing Business Apps

WorkSpaces Evolves Your Desktop Strategy

Call centers

Temporary workers

Dev/Test Mergers and acquisitions

Securing data Compliance requirements

Mobile workers BYOD

Training and labs Demos

Amazon WorkSpaces Use Cases

Utilities Bundle includes Internet Explorer 11, Firefox, and 7-Zip

Bring Your Own License and Save $4

Amazon WorkSpaces Pricing

Add Trend Micro and Microsoft Office Pro for an additional $15/month

Value• 1 vCPU, 2 GB memory

• 10 GB storage

• Utilities software bundle

• 50 GB Amazon WorkDocs storage

Standard• 2 vCPU, 4 GB memory

• 50 GB storage

• Utilities software bundle

• 50 GB Amazon WorkDocs storage

Performance• 2 vCPU, 7.5 GB memory

• 100 GB storage

• Utilities software bundle

• 50 GB Amazon WorkDocs storage

Monthly Pricing Hourly Pricing

$25 $7.25/month + $0.22/hour

Monthly Pricing Hourly Pricing

$35 $9.75/month + $0.30/hour

Monthly Pricing Hourly Pricing

$60 $13.00/month + $0.57/hour

Amazon WorkSpaces Regions

Customer Success Story: Endemol Shine Nederland

Endemol Shine Nederland uses contract video crews in locations around the world to create their shows

Preparing for a project took two weeks as the team had to set up, secure, and ship hardware to a production site

Endemol Shine Nederland decided to provide contract video crews with Amazon WorkSpaces to run on their own devices

The switch saved Endemol Shine Nederland 70% in PC capex, 30% in PC operations, and reduced preparation time to two hours.

Leon BackbierIT Manager, Endemol Shine Nederland

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Endemol Shine Nederland is a world leading creator, producer and distributor of multiplatform entertainment with a portfolio that includes Big Brother, MasterChef, Man vs.

Food, The Biggest Loser, and Wipeout.

“With Amazon WorkSpaces, we are able to provide video crews with a secure cloud

desktop they can run on their own devices while onsite. By using Amazon WorkSpaces, we have saved 70% on PC capital expenditure,

and 30% on desktop operations, while reducing our preparation time from two weeks to two

hours.”

Use Case | Contract Workers

Amazon WorkSpaces…• Provides fast, secure desktops with consistent performance that users will love

• Simplifies desktop management

• Scales globally within minutes

• Plays well with existing tools

• Provides flexibility and agility

• Lowers complexity and cost

To Learn More

• Website: https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/?nc2=h_m1

• Testimonials: https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/testimonials/

• Resources: https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/resources/

Questions & Answers

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