Overview
Connect to a full-featured Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Desktop environment through your browser or natively using a Remote Desktop client. Jupyter notebooks, RStudio Server or a Terminal session can be accessed securely from your browser. This image ships with the latest versions of Google Chrome, Anaconda, Jupyter, RStudio Server, Visual Studio Code and Docker.
The workspace is ideal for users who require the power of EC2 instances while using a familiar graphical user interface or their preferred IDE. it provides the perfect starting point for any kind of software development, HCP workloads, data science work or use as a bastion host for your VPC.
No client software needs to be installed to access the remote desktop. All that is required is a modern browser (including Internet Explorer 11) to access the desktop. Additionally, Jupyter, RStudio Server and a Terminal session can be opened through the browser. Screenshots can be found at https://docs.netcubed.io/products/ubuntu-desktop/ .
The browser interface as well as the remote desktop protocol support copy and paste between the virtual desktop environment and the client. Files can be uploaded using drag and drop. The environment is multi-user capable and supports a large number of concurrent users on appropriately sized instances. Please follow the instructions on how to add additional users to the system.
This product is also available on Ubuntu 22.04 at https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07ZDBJ42H .
Highlights
- ACCESS VIA BROWSER: no client software necessary to access the desktop environment.
- RDP SUPPORT: access workspace on the go through the remote desktop protocol.
- PRECONFIGURED: popular packages for software development and data science already installed.
Details
Typical total price
$0.136/hour
Pricing
Free trial
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.small | $0.02 | $0.023 | $0.043 |
t2.medium | $0.03 | $0.046 | $0.076 |
t2.large | $0.04 | $0.093 | $0.133 |
t2.xlarge | $0.05 | $0.186 | $0.236 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.06 | $0.371 | $0.431 |
t3.small | $0.02 | $0.021 | $0.041 |
t3.medium | $0.03 | $0.042 | $0.072 |
t3.large | $0.04 | $0.083 | $0.123 |
t3.xlarge | $0.05 | $0.166 | $0.216 |
t3.2xlarge | $0.06 | $0.333 | $0.393 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3) volumes | $0.08/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
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We do not currently support refunds, but you can cancel at any time.
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Release notes can be found at https://docs.netcubed.io/products/ubuntu-desktop/release-notes/ .
Additional details
Usage instructions
Launch the image on any of the available instance types. Consider changing the size of the root EBS volume. Make sure that the attached security group allows traffic on port 80 and 443 if you plan to access the server via the browser interface, and port 3389 if you plan to use the Remote Desktop Protocol. Allow a couple of minutes for the instance to boot.
The web interface can be accessed through your browser on the public IP (or private IP for enterprise VPCs) of the EC2 instance (e.g. https://18.245.21.43 where 18.245.21.43 is the public IP address of the instance).
Most browsers will display a certificate warning. This warning is letting you know that the certificate was self-signed instead of signed by a trusted Certificate Authority. You can safely ignore the warning as it doesn't impact the security of the connection by clicking on "Continue to this webpage" (Internet Explorer) or "Advanced" and then "Proceed to website" (Chrome).
The default user is ubuntu and the default password is the instance ID.
Alternatively, you can reach your desktop environment through a Remote Desktop Client (such as the Microsoft Remote Desktop Application, preinstalled on Windows and available on the Apple App Store for MacOS). The hostname is simply the public IP (or private IP for enterprise VPCs). Make sure you enter the username and password before you connect. On Windows, click "Show Options" and fill in the username and password.
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For paid support, email sales@netcubed.de for further information. Free support is provided via support@netcubed.de . For free support, we do not provide a guaranteed response time, however we do our best to respond to questions within 24 hours Monday through Friday.
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Customer reviews
Does the most simple thing - works.
After trying a few self installs of xrdp server with amazon EC2 instance and failed RDP connections from Linux Mint 20 followed advice for the market place AMI.
Ready made systems installed that allows us to spend our time and focus on other important things. Certainly does what they say creates a remote desktop connection to in my instance a Linux Ubuntu 20 server.
Not being proficient enough in Linux Terminal commands this is good.
Excellent
This is a great package at a reasonable cost, very easy to use with lots of services and relative flexibility.
Very good tool to test page speed from other locations
We use this tool to test under real conditions the PageSpeed of our website from other AWS location.
It's that easy:
- Start up the instance
- log in to the instance via browser
- open the local browser
- Test the PageSpeed with the most popular extensions
Unreservedly recommend
Too unstable for everyday work
This review refers to the current version at time of writing, 1.2.1.
Keeps dropping the connection in both windows RDP as well browser RDP mode. Once this happens, it goes into infinite loop with no possibility of logging in and the instance needs to be restarted with loss of time and productivity.
Good idea, but needs more stability.
great desktop environment for data science work
The in-browser rdp client works surprisingly well and the in-browser terminal makes an ssh connection obsolete which is great because it's blocked at our company. Got the jupyter notebook up and running and now use this workspace almost exclusively instead of my laptop.