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Amazon WorkSpaces Personal enhances protocol migration with rollback

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Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now supports automated rollback and migration of stopped WorkSpaces, simplifying large-scale protocol changes. Migrating to the Amazon DCV protocol offers broader OS support, enhanced security, and improved performance. These features are available in all supported AWS regions and require no manual intervention for rollback or starting stopped instances.

  • →Support for migrating stopped WorkSpaces
  • →Automated rollback for protocol migration failures
  • →Benefits of migrating to Amazon DCV protocol
  • →Availability of enhanced migration features
Features (1) ›
  • Support for migrating stopped WorkSpaces

    Administrators can now initiate protocol migration for WorkSpaces that are in a stopped state, removing the need to manually start each instance before modification.

Enhancements (1) ›
  • Automated rollback for protocol migration failures

    WorkSpaces Personal now automatically rolls back to a pre-migration snapshot if a protocol modification fails, ensuring a return to a known healthy state without manual intervention.

Notes (2) ›
  • Benefits of migrating to Amazon DCV protocol

    Migration to DCV provides broader OS support (Windows 11, Windows Server 2025), enhanced security features like certificate-based authentication and WebAuthN redirection, and improved streaming performance.

  • Availability of enhanced migration features

    These enhancements are available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Amazon WorkSpaces Personal is supported.

Read the original announcement →

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-workspaces-personal-pcoip/

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