End User Computing (EUC) Lens - End User Computing (EUC) Lens
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End User Computing (EUC) Lens

Publication date: September 18, 2025 (Document revisions)

This document describes the End User Computing (EUC) Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework, a collection of customer-proven best practices for designing and operating cloud-based virtual desktop and application streaming solutions. This document is intended for those in technology roles, such as chief technology officers (CTOs), architects, developers, and desktop administrators. After reading this document, you should understand typical customer scenarios, general design principles, and the best practices for deploying secure, operationally excellent, performant, cost-optimized, reliable, and sustainable EUC workloads.

Introduction

The Well-Architected End User Computing Lens can be used to guide the initial design of your EUC solution. This document can also be used to periodically evaluate your existing solution against best practices, to create a backlog of tasks to improve your workload, and to measure improvement over time.

Get started by familiarizing yourself with the scenarios that represent common EUC use cases and the design principles that offer high-level best practices. Refer to the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework to dive deep into pillar-specific design principles and best practices. The definitions section contains definitions of terms related to EUC workloads.

This document only covers details from the Well-Architected Framework that are specific to End User Compute. We recommend that you also consider the best practices from the AWS Well-Architected Framework when designing your architecture.

Custom lens availability

Custom lenses extend the best practice guidance provided by AWS Well-Architected Tool. AWS WA Tool allows you to create your own custom lenses, or to use lenses created by others that have been shared with you.

To determine if a custom lens is available for the lens described in this whitepaper, reach out to your Technical Account Manager (TAM), Solutions Architect (SA), or Support.