Amazon Workspaces is a VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) that allows a user to securely connect to a cloud compute instance. SEAS Computing has bundled Solidworks and Comsol as applications which authorized SEAS users may utilize, and have opened up the SEAS licensing servers to these instances.
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1. Update your user account (est. time: 1 min.)
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AWS will send you an email when your instance is ready. It will let you know your user name and your registration code. Click on the link inside that email to be taken to a page where you can update your password for your user. Take note of the user name, password, and registration code.
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Please note that workspaces auto-stop after 1 being disconnected. This means when you re-connect to your workspace, you will see that it is resuming, and you will have to wait a minute or less for the workspace to resume. You will automatically be connected to your workspace when it is ready.
Fig. 3: Workspace resuming message after successful logon
Once connected to your workspace, use it as you would any other computer. When you log back in, all your storage and applications are the same as when you left.
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