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Funny thing, I need to use an amazon workspace from time to time for my job. I've managed to keep 100% Linux (for my personal boxes) professionally and at home for a good long time now, but a specific (and thankfully rare) access requirement was solved by using a Windows Amazon workspace.

Guess what? No Linux workspaces client.

So now to gain network access to a particular resource (a web address), I run the Windows workspaces client under Wine under Linux, which gives me access to a properly virtualized Windows workspace, which gives me access to a web address that is hosted on Linux.

It would be a comic tragedy except that it was so damn easy to make it work, and it works very well.




As I noted in the post, I run VirtualBox on Ubuntu on the client side.


It can be made to work under wine... or you can still use rdp.


The Workspaces FAQ appears to disagree, but I'd be interested in learning if one can indeed use RDP.

https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/faqs/#Clients_User_Experie...

"Q: Can I use any other client (e.g., an RDP client) with Amazon WorkSpaces?

No. The only supported clients for WorkSpaces are the free clients provided by AWS."


I did it.. So it does work :)

If you use public IP addresses, just use that.. or leapfrog rdp through an ssh tunnel or VPN on a linux instance on the same VPC.

Something like this, to tunnel through a linux instance:

  #!/bin/sh
  sshuttle -D -r ubuntu@linuxinstance-in-vpc 172.16.X.0/24
  xfreerdp +clipboard /rfx /smart-sizing:800 /d:CORP /u:demo /v:172.16.X.X


"supported"


You can also use a Teradici zero client or Android/iOS




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