Important AWS Workspace Limits

Know Thy Limits

There are some important AWS Workspace limits to be aware of:

Number of workspaces per user - 1
Number of total workspaces per account/region - 1
Number of workspace images per account/region - 5

Per-user Workspace limits

Limit: 1 workspace per user account in your AD

This applies to a single user in a directory, they can only have a single workspace. It doesn't matter if you launch another workspace with different OS, different machine-size.

Only one.

This cannot be changed.

Per Account Workspace Limits

Limit: 1 workspace, per Account, per region.

Keep in mind, when I say "account" I don't mean a user account, or an IAM user account. This is the capital 'A' account meaning.

This can be raised via a request.

Per Account Workspace Image Limits

Limit: 5 images, per Account, per region.

As above, this is capital 'A' account.

This can be raised via a request.

My Recent Examle

We made 2 service requests for limit increases during the MVP of this project.

The first came at the inception of the project. We requested the workspaces/region raised to 5, and workspace images/region raised to 10. This was when we had a small group of engineers quickly iterating through version of a "Windows 10 Experience, Windows Server 2016" deployment. This request took around a day.