Announcing new larger instance types for Amazon WorkSpaces Web
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This article announces the introduction of two new larger instance types for Amazon WorkSpaces Web - standard.large and standard.xlarge - in addition to the existing standard.regular type. It discusses the features and use cases for each instance type.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Details of the three available instance types and their recommended use cases
- How to select the instance type when creating a new WorkSpaces Web portal or modifying an existing one
- Monitoring portal performance using Amazon CloudWatch metrics like GlobalCpuPercent and GlobalMemoryPercent
- Best practices for optimizing CPU and memory utilization based on the metrics, and when to consider upgrading to a larger instance type
- An example comparing the metrics across the three instance types for the same workload
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