Two hundred seasonal contractors need a full Windows desktop with the company's applications for four months a year. They will use their own laptops, and no company data may be stored on those laptops. Which service fits?
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02), objective 3. Cloud technology and services medium
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Correct Amazon WorkSpaces
Correct. It provides managed virtual desktops that users connect to from their own device: the desktop and its data stay in AWS, and billing is per user with monthly or hourly options that suit a seasonal workforce.
Not correct Amazon AppStream 2.0
Wrong for a full desktop. AppStream streams individual applications to a user's browser, which is the better answer when you want to deliver one program rather than a whole Windows environment.
Not correct EC2 Windows instances that contractors connect to over RDP
Wrong in practice. It can be built, but you then own the images, the provisioning, the patching, the licensing and the directory integration for two hundred people who arrive and leave every year.
Not correct Amazon Lightsail Windows instances
Wrong. Lightsail is a simplified way to run a small server at a predictable monthly price. It is a server product, not a per-user desktop service, and none of the desktop lifecycle is handled for you.
Why
The end-user computing pair is worth learning as a sentence each. Amazon WorkSpaces delivers a persistent virtual desktop per user. Amazon AppStream 2.0 streams a single application to a browser session. Both keep the data in AWS rather than on the endpoint, and that — rather than cost — is often the real reason an organisation buys them: a lost contractor laptop then contains nothing.
Where this comes from
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- AWS exam guide task statement 3.8
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