Amazon WorkSpaces Pools

awsVirtual desktop poolaws-workspaces-pools

Non-persistent pooled desktops streamed from a shared image on ephemeral infrastructure.

Provider
aws
Category
Compute
Properties · 4 set by this component
propertytypevaluesrequiredkind defaultthis component
autoScaling · component propertyboolean—no—inherited
hostCountinteger—no—inherited
loadBalancingenumbreadth-first | depth-firstno—inherited
managedboolean—nofalse▸ true
maxSessionsPerHostinteger—no—▸ 1
mfaRequiredboolean—no—inherited
persistentProfilesboolean—no—▸ false
runningMode · component propertyenumalways-on | auto-stopno—inherited
sessionModeenumpooled | personalno—▸ pooled
Rules that apply · 1

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

stateful-node-without-zone-redundancy

A stateful compute node pinned to exactly one availability zone disappears with that zone, and its state goes with it. Nodes inside a cell are exempt, because there the cell is deliberately single-zone and redundancy comes from the other cells.

  • — all of these hold:
  • — the node's `stateless` is false
  • — the node sits inside exactly 1 availability-zone group
  • — this does not hold:
  • — the node sits inside at least one cell group
Use it in a design
nodes:
  - { id: "workspaces-pools", component: "aws-workspaces-pools" }
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Source
# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
# Amazon WorkSpaces Pools: non-persistent desktops on ephemeral infrastructure, drawn from a pool
# that runs an image you specify ("What is Amazon WorkSpaces?", "Administer WorkSpaces Pools").
# Running mode is AutoStop, billed per connected instance with a 1-2 minute start, or AlwaysOn
# ("Running mode for WorkSpaces Pools"). Id and kind assigned 2026-09-07 (row kept for placement
# until end of support on 31 December 2027).
schemaVersion: "1"
type: "component"
id: "aws-workspaces-pools"
kind: "virtual-desktop"
provider: "aws"
docs: "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/workspaces/latest/adminguide/managing-stacks-fleets.html"
defaults:
  managed: true
  sessionMode: "pooled"
  maxSessionsPerHost: 1
  persistentProfiles: false
properties:
  runningMode:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["always-on", "auto-stop"]
  autoScaling:
    type: "boolean"

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/aws-workspaces-pools.md