Amazon WorkSpaces is a desktop computing service that runs in the cloud, and now supports both monthly and hourly billing. In this session, we help you determine the right billing method for your use cases, show you how to provision Amazon WorkSpaces for monthly or hourly billing, and work through a real-world example. News UK, a media organization that owns a stable of news and media brands, describes how they use Amazon WorkSpaces to solve a unique business need.

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Salman Paracha, Product Manager, AWS
Rich Perez, Cloud & EUC Infrastructure Manager, News UK
November 30, 2016
Extra, Extra! News UK Saves Money with
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2. What to Expect from the Session
1. Emerging trends in business productivity
2. Overview of Amazon WorkSpaces
3. Save on costs with monthly and hourly billing, and serve more use cases
4. Demo – how it works
5. How does NewsUK use Amazon WorkSpaces to solve a unique business need.
6. Recap

3. The changing landscape of business
What’s not working?
Personal Computers
 Manage inventory
 Secure endpoints
 BYOD is complicated
 Data must be backed up
 Expensive to scale
On-Premises VDI
 Upfront investment
 Weeks to deploy
 Requires management
 Servers must be secured
 Expensive to scale
Personal
devices
Support contract
workers
Access for
mobile workers
Data security Agility

4. 164 MM
By 2020, 40% of workers will be doing some freelance work1
The rise of the “Gig” economy

5. Amazon WorkSpaces – Managed Cloud Desktops
Scale &
Secure
Pay-as-you-go
Simple to deploy and
manage
Highly Interactive Secure
Desktops Your Users Will Love
consistent performance

6. Flexible Billing Options
HourlyMonthly
Best For
 Full-time employees
 Simplifying your AWS bill
 Instant access
 Running scheduled tasks
Best For
 Part-time employees
 Optimizing your AWS bill
 Quick access
 Run ad hoc tasks

7. How does it work?
Demo Time

8. NewsUK – Customer Case Study
NewsUK titles and their
websites reach 72% of all
adults in Britain
NewsUK accounts for 34% of
total national newspaper
advertising revenue in UK
Printing presses are capable
of churning out 86,000
copies in full colour every
hour
The Sunday Times Wine
Club sells nearly £90m of
wine to over 304,000
customer per year

9. NewsUK – NUK EUC Landscape
Messaging
Collaboration
IAM
Desktop
Virtualisation
Endpoint
Services

10. NewsUK – Why Workspaces
Secure access to internal
resources
Scalability to support
our DR model
Use our existing tool set
to manage the estate
Accessible on multiple
devices
Billing options equals
savings
Avoid CapEx spend

11. NewsUK – Intended Use Cases
Monthly
1. Full-time access to internal resources - 26% of our users
Hourly/ Auto-Stop
2. External support partners that require periodic access – 15%
3. Employees that require intermittent access to internal resources – 55-60%
4. Business continuity solution – 200 users

12. Moving Forward
• Complete UAT testing for specific use cases
• Disaster recovery testing
• Additional regions for latency sensitive workloads
• Rollout based on key roadmap Items
• Working with AWS on complex use cases

13. Remember, Amazon WorkSpaces…
• Provides fast, secure desktops with consistent performance users will love
• Simplifies desktop management
• Scales globally within minutes
• Plays well with existing tools
• Provides flexibility and agility
• Lowers complexity and cost

14. Thank you!

15. Remember to complete
your evaluations!