Any general thoughts on how prevalent AWS workspaces Core is (with Citirx/Omnissa/etc) versus the standard Workspaces?

Its brand new

@Oz Zy you lads have been involved a little here right?

@James Kindon for us it is not hugely prevalent or popular but we had one we built a PoC for after doing it for our environment. Was with Citrix in our case although they have other partnerships as well for Core. Worked but took some work on AWS side to get there

We assessed it. Long story short: product is not mature enough. To import your image with AWS Workspaces, you must run a compliant script manually (BYOLCheckerScript), which is a real pitty. This limitation comes from AWS and they don't want to hear anything about it. Power Policies to optimise costs are not ready yet. Multi-Session is not ready yet. It's cool, but will be a good product in a year or so (mainly because of AWS, not Citrix teams).

Yeah, lots of unique steps to get it working. Luckily most is documented pretty well on AWS side to help fill in the blanks for anything not in Citrix documentation; I had to use a combination of Workspaces docs in general and Citrix-specific docs for Core. Not polished at all yet, but brokering does work well after. Getting there was complex and many things to pay attention to for limitations when building the image to import into AWS. Definitely only a use case for Citrix customers who have back end pieces in AWS and HAVE to run some windows desktops there but still want the single aggregated Workspace and ability to control policies, run HDX, etc. Very specific use case for sure

It is to enable customers to have access to M365 apps outside of Azure. We need to see if the customer interest is there. Workspaces Core is the partner reach out like MS does with W365. Gives Citrix/Omnissa customers yet another resource location to run workloads.. and now M365 outside of Azure.