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Does AWS have Windows 10 AMI available? I can only find Windows Server AMIs
At this link I can only see Windows Server AMIs
https://aws.amazon.com/windows/resources/amis/
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"All Amazon WorkSpaces bundles include a Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows 10 desktop experience, powered by Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2016 respectively...".
Amazon Web Services will now allow customers to run Windows 11 on Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, the firm has announced.
Storage for the root device. All AMIs are categorized as either backed by Amazon EBS or backed by instance store. Amazon EBS-backed AMI – The root device for an instance launched from the AMI is an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume created from an Amazon EBS snapshot.
You can use AWS Import/Export to transfer existing disk images into AWS, including Windows 10.
However, you will be responsible for the licensing of non-Server products such as Windows 10.
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AWS Workspaces does not give you a Windows client install. AWS will only provide server installs.
"All Amazon WorkSpaces bundles include a Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows 10 desktop experience, powered by Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2016 respectively...".
As per aws.amazon.com/workspaces/details
I tested this and even though "Standard with Windows 10 Free tier eligible" was selected, I logged in to a Server 2016 system.
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