[Diederich]

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.

[jeffbarr]

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

[Daviey]

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

[npongratz]

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."

[Daviey]

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

[erstorreyk]

"supported"

[Spooky23]

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