During tax season the assessor’s office hires temporary staff who need full Windows desktops with installed apps without shipping laptops to every hire. Which AWS service provides managed virtual desktops?
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Short Explanation
WorkSpaces is a rented desk in the cloud — seasonal workers log in, get a full desktop, and the city skips overnight laptop shipping. Lambda is for short functions, S3 Object Lambda tweaks file downloads, and CloudFront caches websites; none hand someone a Windows desktop.
Full Explanation
Amazon WorkSpaces provides managed virtual desktops that users access over the network with their applications and data in the cloud. Seasonal tax workers are a common elastic-desktop scenario. Lambda runs event-driven compute without a desktop OS for end users, and S3 Object Lambda or CloudFront address object/transform or CDN needs instead.