{"id":1206626,"date":"2023-11-27T14:32:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206626"},"modified":"2023-11-27T14:32:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:32:15","slug":"amazons-195-thin-clients-are-repurposed-fire-tv-cubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206626","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s $195 thin clients are repurposed Fire TV Cubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/amazon-thin-client-800x534-1.jpg\" alt=\"amazon workspaces thin client\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/amazon-thin-client.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"594\" data-width=\"890\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> A blog post from AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr shows the Workspaces Thin Client setup. (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/aws\/new-amazon-workspaces-thin-client\/\">Jeff Barr\/Amazon<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Amazon has turned its Fire TV Cube streaming device into a thin client optimized for Amazon Web Services (AWS).<\/p>\n<p>Amazon&#8217;s Workspaces Thin Client also supports Amazon&#8217;s Workspaces Web, for accessing virtual desktops from a browser, and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2013\/11\/amazon-wants-to-be-your-everything-with-new-cloud-services\/\">AppStream<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The computer is a Fire TV Cube with a new software stack. All the hardware\u2014from the 2GB of LPDDR4x RAM and 16GB of storage, to the Arm processor with 8 cores, including four running at up to 2.2 GHz\u2014remain identical whether buying the device as an Alexa-powered entertainment-streaming device or thin client computer. Both the Fire TV Cube and Workspaces Thin Client run an Android Open Source Project-based Android fork (<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/11\/amazon-fire-tablets-and-other-gear-will-reportedly-switch-away-from-android\/\">for now<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1986468#p3\">Read 11 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1986468&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1986468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon\u2019s 5 thin clients are repurposed Fire TV Cubes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ A blog post from AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr shows the Workspaces Thin Client setup. (credit: Jeff Barr\/Amazon) Amazon has turned its Fire TV Cube streaming device into a thin client optimized for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206626\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1206626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1206627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}