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I made my own version of AWS workspaces inside AWS because workspaces is a buggy piece of shit and the client sucks. It's just an EC2 instance which can be started and stopped by a makefile that runs awscli and I query the IP address and open it in MS RDP!

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At my company we used AWS workspaces for training classes. Whenever we'd have a class, we'd create 1 or 2 spare workspaces. If someone couldn't connect to their workspace, we'd give them the connection information for one of the spares.

I was so happy when we reworked our classes to no longer use AWS workspaces.

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