Customers can manage Amazon WorkSpaces programmatically while using VMware Horizon protocols like Blast or PCoIP. Recently released features of WorkSpaces including WorkSpaces Core gives customer more flexibility. Consult your VMware Horizon license agreement to confirm if your license allows to run anywhere including AWS. The user experience can remain the same depending on the architecture. The deployment, and management experiences are the same. VMware Horior newer on AWS can be deployed as you would deploy in an on-premises environment. In this blog we explore how to extend and expand your VMware Horizon deployment using Amazon WorkSpaces Core. Organizations can use VMware Horizon 8 with Amazon WorkSpaces Core to extend your Horizon deployment with the latest versions of VMware Horizon. The use cases might be temporary workers, extending an existing data center to AWS or how to set up disaster recovery environment.

Customers who have deployed a VMware Horizon 8 or newer ask how Amazon Web Services (AWS) can extend capabilities, without having to buy additional hardware. Customers want to use desktop services to deliver business-critical application and desktops to their end users at scale.

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