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It's the Citrix killer.[0] I suspect the price is way lower than what Citrix charges and goes into a fairly untapped market of "non-biz" folk that might have use cases for it.

[0]- http://www.citrix.com/products/xendesktop/overview.html

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Citrix seemed to have been a partner to Amazon: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/ci...

Not sure if Workspaces has any sort of collaboration with Citrix.

It wouldn't be. This is powered by Teradici's PCoIP solution (I worked on that) which is the competition to the Citrix HDX protocol. Teradici used to partner primarily with VMware and compete with Citrix in VDI.

This could be especially useful for health professionals accessing big enterprise systems like Epic.

Assuming all the HIPPA concerns are addressed. Last I checked, healthcare businesses want nothing to do with AWS, and either run their own infrastructure or begrudgingly use things like Firehost.

It's supposedly possible.

http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/#hipaa

Yep, it's possible, but to get them to sign a BAA with you, you need to agree to only use a very small subset of the AWS products (basically just EC2 and S3. No RDS, no ELB, etc.). Additionally, any EC2 instance you provision need to have the "single tenancy" bit set on your instances. Which, when set, you start getting hit with a very high flat per-day "single tenancy" fee in addition to higher hourly costs for your instances.

Correct! Once you need single tenancy, you might as well be buying your own gear and colo'ing it (unless you have a desperate need for low latency access to other AWS services you simply can't move away from).

Epic (hyperspace) is generally accessed through Citrix. It just runs in a single application container instead of exposing a full desktop.

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