Citrix announces general availability of Citrix DaaS on Amazon WorkSpaces Core
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This article announces the general availability of Citrix DaaS on Amazon WorkSpaces Core, allowing customers to extend their on-premises Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to the AWS Cloud, reducing costs, improving security, and optimizing user productivity.
Specifically, the article covers:
- New Citrix features such as volume encryption for data at rest, updating imported images from the Citrix Cloud console, creating custom images from existing WorkSpaces, and support for Windows Server OS
- Beta support for multi-session on WorkSpaces Core for cost optimization
- Benefits of extending on-premises VDI to AWS, including flexible billing, pay-as-you-go pricing, scalability, security, and freeing internal resources
- Steps to get started, including enabling BYOL and BYOP features in AWS, and using the Citrix Cloud console
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