Amazon WorkSpaces Web
- What it is
- A managed, secure browser service (now branded WorkSpaces Secure Browser). Delivers a fully isolated Chrome session running in AWS, streamed to the user’s local browser.
- No client software to install.
- Why
- Contractors and BYOD users access internal web applications and SaaS without an agent or a VPN on their device.
- Nothing is downloaded to the endpoint; the administrator controls copy/paste, printing, and file transfer.
- Web content is isolated from the corporate network, containing browser-borne threats.
- The three-way distinction
- Amazon WorkSpaces — a full persistent desktop.
- Amazon AppStream 2.0 — a specific application streamed.
- WorkSpaces Web — just a hardened browser session.