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SOCA gives you the ability to provision Windows or Linux virtual desktops powered by Amazon DCV.

Operating System Version Supported
Windows Windows Server 2019 ✅
Windows Windows Server 2022 ✅
Linux Amazon Linux 2 ✅
Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 ✅
Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 ✅
Linux Rocky 8 ✅
Linux Rocky 9 ✅
Linux Ubuntu 22.04 ⚠️ Beta Only
Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ⚠️ Tested successfully but OS is End-of-Life and won't receive updates from Red Hat, meaning destkop may stop provisioning in the future without notice.
Linux CentOS 7 ⚠️ Tested successfully but OS is End-of-Life and won't receive updates from Red Hat, meaning destkop may stop provisioning in the future without notice.
Linux Amazon Linux 2023 ❌ No Desktop Support

Virtual Desktop Automation

  • SOCA will automatically determine the EC2 Instance type and install the required packages.

  • Supported Linux and Windows OS have been validated on Non-GPU, GPU (Nvidia) and GPU (AMD).

  • Supported Linux OS have been tested for both Intel (x86_64) and Graviton (aarch64) architectures.

Bootstrap Sequence

Here is a high level of the bootstrap sequence of the virtual Desktop machines. Click here to view Windows/Linux advanced bootstrap sequence details for VDI nodes.

Linux VDI

  graph TD;
      A[New Virtual Desktop] --> B{Architecture?};
      B-- x86_64 -->C[Install x86_64 packages];
      B-- aarch64 -->D[Install aarch64 packages];
      C--> E{Has GPU?};
      D-->E
      E-- Nvidia -->F[Install Cuda+nvidia drivers];
      E-- AMD -->G[Install AMD drivers];
      E-- None -->H[Desktop ready];
      F --> H ;
      G --> H;

Windows VDI

Windows VDI leverages the official NICE DCV AMIs from Marketplace: