This URL is used by end users to access the streamed Chrome browser. First, an administrator will create a WorkSpaces Web Portal and second, the endpoint URL assigned to the portal during its creation is then distributed to the relevant end users. Setting up WorkSpaces Web is a 2-step process. The customer is responsible for controlling the user experience by creating and applying an appropriate Chrome browser policy that is in alignment with company guidelines and specifications. In keeping with the shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for maintaining, updating, and patching of the WorkSpaces Web application and platform, including Chrome and Linux. WorkSpaces Web is essentially, an AWS managed AppStream Image and Fleet that provides access to a single application, Google Chrome. Just as AppStream is used to stream applications and desktops to end users, WorkSpaces Web is used to stream a Chrome browser from AWS to a remote device. Though WorkSpaces Web is defined as a fully-managed WorkSpace service, it looks and functions like Amazon AppStream. WorkSpaces Web may be able to replace Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream thus freeing one from having to manage WorkSpaces desktops and images and AppStream fleets and images. Additionally, WorkSpaces Web could simplify the overall administrative burden for those organizations who have deployed AWS-based EUC services. If all you need to provide a user is access to a browser, WorkSpaces Web would allow an organization could easily “publish” Chrome and avoid the need build and manage Citrix, VMware, or Microsoft RDP infrastructures. I imagine there must also exist some mechanism for managing these systems with the latest Microsoft, Citrix, and Chrome updates.
Now, I concede that I don’t know the specifics of this Citrix environment, but I imagine that behind the scenes of this published app, there are likely multiple Citrix StoreFront Servers, Connection Servers, and Application Servers. To successfully complete a recent project, I needed access to a customer’s environment and I was granted the requested access to a Google Chrome browser published via Citrix. I can give you a real-world personal example detailing a great use case for WorkSpaces Web.
Maybe you are thinking, “What’s the purpose of this?” and that is a great question. To give the textbook definition, Amazon WorkSpaces Web is “a low cost, fully managed WorkSpace built specifically to facilitate secure, web-based workloads.” WorkSpaces Web allows an organization to provide their users a customized, hardened, and secure Chrome browser experience. If you need an easy and secure method to provide a hardened browser to your end users, AWS’s fully managed WorkSpaces Web may be the service you’ve been waiting for.
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