Amazon WorkSpaces now supports file transfer between WorkSpaces sessions and local devices

Amazon WorkSpaces is launching support for transferring files between a WorkSpaces Personal session and a local computer. This helps customers to manage and share files seamlessly, increasing their productivity. This is supported on personal WorkSpaces that use the DCV streaming protocol when using the Windows, Linux client applications or web access.

With this launch, users can streamline their workflows and have easier ways to organize, manage, edit, and share files across their devices and platforms. The files on the WorkSpaces will be saved in a persistent storage folder. Amazon WorkSpaces also offers robust security measures, and administrators can control whether users can upload or download files from WorkSpaces to protect the data security of your organization.

This functionality is now available in all the AWS Regions where Amazon WorkSpaces Personal is available. There are no additional WorkSpaces costs for using the file transfer functionality. However, the files uploaded consume user volume that is attached to the WorkSpaces. Customers can increase the size of the user volumes attached to WorkSpaces at any time. Changing the volume size of a WorkSpace will effect the billing rate. See Amazon WorkSpaces pricing for more information.

To get started on the WorkSpaces file transfer function, see Configure file transfer for DCV WorkSpaces.