Ubuntu joins AWS' Microsoft Windows and AWS' own Amazon Linux options on Amazon Workspaces. The Ubuntu desktop is aimed squarely at developers and data-scientists.

Beyond the server, Canonical provides mobile development capabilities through Anbox Cloud Appliance in AWS Marketplace, and Ubuntu Desktop availability on Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0.

Canonical has brought premium Ubuntu Pro Linux images to Amazon Web Services, which come with extended maintenance, broader security coverage, and critical compliance features.

With the new Amazon WorkSpaces, customers now use Amazon Linux 2 as a desktop besides Windows 7 and 10. The Amazon Linux 2 WorkSpaces are available in different forms including Amazon Machine Image.

Amazon WorkSpaces, as Jassy explained, aims to go where previous VDI technology has failed, because the sector hasn’t taken off in the way it should have done. “You get to live that dream of centrally ...

Amazon WorkSpaces offers secure, scalable virtual desktops through a shared responsibility model, which ensures AWS manages the cloud infrastructure while customers retain responsibility for ...

AWS announced WorkSpaces – a virtual desktop offering that will now enable companies, big and small, to migrate their existing applications to Amazon’s servers so that their people can do ...

“The new Ubuntu Pro images will deliver a further optimized experience to our customers, providing additional security and performance to their Ubuntu instances,” Deepak Singh, AWS’s vice ...