Amazon WorkSpaces introduces support for Rocky Linux

Amazon Web Services today announced support for Rocky Linux from CIQ on Amazon WorkSpaces Personal, a fully managed virtual desktop offering. With this launch, organizations can provide their end users with an RPM Package Manager compatible environment, optimized for running compute-intensive applications, while helping to improve IT agility and reduce costs. Now WorkSpaces Personal customers have the flexibility to choose from a wider range of Linux distributions including Rocky Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Ubuntu Desktop.

With Rocky Linux on WorkSpaces Personal, IT organizations can enable developers to work in an environment that is consistent with their production environment, and provide power users like engineers and data scientists with on-demand access to Rocky Linux environments as needed - quickly spinning up and tearing down instances and managing the entire fleet through the AWS Console, without the burden of capacity planning or license management. WorkSpaces Personal offers a wide range of high-performance, license-included, fully-managed virtual desktop bundles—enabling organizations to only pay for the resources they use.

Rocky Linux on WorkSpaces Personal is available in all AWS Regions where WorkSpaces Personal is available, except for AWS China Regions. Depending on the WorkSpaces Personal running mode, you will be charged hourly or monthly for your virtual desktops. For more details on pricing, refer to Amazon WorkSpaces Pricing.

To get started with Rocky Linux on WorkSpaces Personal, sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon WorkSpaces console. For more information, see the Amazon WorkSpaces Administration Guide.