Horizon 8 Horizon 8 on Amazon WorkSpaces Core

[Daniel Berkowitz]

With the release of Horizon 8 2406 comes direct integration with Amazon WorkSpaces Core. You can now use automated pools to provision dedicated, floating, persistent or non-persistent Windows 10 or 11 WorkSpaces instances through the Horizon console.  

Within the pool flow you can choose your power (and billing) policy of Always On or Power Optimized. Based on what your outcome needs to be, there a varying pool options you can choose from.

Always On, is billed based on calendar month (by AWS) and stays powered on while Power Optimized is hourly billing and provides options for suspending and resuming the machines to reduce costs.

You can combine the Log Off After Disconnect option with Delete Machine on Logoff for a non-persistent outcome.

The automated pools feature released in 2406 is for deployments of Horizon 8 PODs in EC2 targeting Amazon WorkSpaces Core for desktop capacity. This deployment model is all contained inside Amazon infrastructure.  

Check out the Omnissa Techzone guide for more information - https://techzone.omnissa.com/resource/deploying-omnissa-horizon-amazon-ec2-and-amazon-workspaces

[Steve]

"With the release of Horizon 8 2406 comes direct integration with Amazon WorkSpaces Core."  Does this mean that Horizon is no longer dependent on vSphere and is now platform agnostic?

[Daniel Berkowitz]

In the case where a customer would like to use Automated Pools with Horizon 8 on Amazon WorkSpaces Core, all components are installed in Amazon, there is no requirement for vSphere in this deployment.

[Daniel Berkowitz]

We've a new blog post https://www.omnissa.com/what-is-new-horizon-with-amazon-workspaces-core-2024/

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