Data retention on Workspaces if Subscription is cancelled

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Hi,

I cannot find anywhere in the docs, what happens with my data on my Workspace. after I cancel my subscription.

Scenario:

  1. I subscribe and start to use Workspaces, provision 1 computer and use it for dev purposes.

  2. After 2 months, I dont want to pay for it anymore, so I cancel my subscription.

  3. After X months, I wish to return to work on my Workspace, so I subscribe again.

  4. At this point, will I see my previously installed programs, data, and environments intact on my old Workspace,
    or Amazon will delete all my data after I unsubscribe?

If possible, when you answer, could you please provide the relevant links as well?

Thank you in advance!

Edited by: Zedas on Aug 3, 2021 3:06 AM

Zedas
asked 3 years ago252 views
2 Answers
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Somehow its strange that nobody here is capable to answer this question, but I managed to find out via a great Support guy, so I am going to post the answer for others:

If you stop paying for the Workspace service, and therefore the service is deleted to avoid other charges, when you get back after X months to use it again, you'll start from zero, meaning, no programs will save as the service was in fact deleted.

If the Workspace service is deleted, therefore all back ups done for Workspace will be deleted as well.

This is why AWS recommends using the Workdocs service to back up all data from WorkSpaces.

You'll be able to integrate Workdocs with Workspaces, and therefore save all data in Workdocs. After this, you'll be able to delete Workspaces service.

Now how this works. Once all data is saved in Workdocs service, you can go ahead and create a new Workspace and access to Workdocs and restore all data.

More about this can be found here:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/desktop-and-application-streaming/five-reasons-to-enable-amazon-workdocs-within-your-amazon-workspaces-environment/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/workspaces/latest/adminguide/restore-workspace.html

Getting started with Workdocs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haQoDdeGOBo

Kindly note that this service also has its pricing, however it has a Free Trial included. You can check this here:

https://aws.amazon.com/workdocs/pricing/

https://aws.amazon.com/workdocs/faq/

Zedas
answered 3 years ago
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Hello There,

Thank you for contacting AWS.

Yes user Zedas is absolutely right. Once you delete the WorkSpace your data will also be deleted. You can use steps shared by Zedas to backup your data to WorkDocs.

In case you also want to keep your apps you can create one custom image of your WorkSpace. Later when you come back you can create WorkSpaces from this custom image instead of starting from scratch.

However, I would request you to first test this image creation and go through the pre-requisites of custom image creation
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/workspaces/latest/adminguide/create-custom-bundle.html

I hope this information helps.

Thanks

AWS
Robin-P
answered 3 years ago

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