Amazon WorkSpaces Personal Streamlines Migration from PCoIP to DCV Protocol with Enhanced Tools

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal introduced console-guided migration, rollback checkpoints, and session blocking to ease shifting from PCoIP to the Amazon DCV streaming protocol.

By Oliver Grant · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-04-28 · 1 min read

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To improve the transition experience, Amazon WorkSpaces Personal added a single-click option in the AWS Management Console for administrators to switch streaming protocols from PCoIP to Amazon DCV, supplementing CLI and API methods. The migration process now includes automatic checkpoint snapshots to permit rollback if issues arise, ensuring data preservation.

Session provisioning is blocked during migration with informative error messages to users attempting connection, preventing interference. This migration to DCV unlocks support for newer operating systems, enhanced security like certificate-based authentication and WebAuthN, and superior streaming performance, available across AWS commercial and GovCloud regions.

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