AWS unveils AppStream 2.0, runs on many types of VMs

After unloading a whole bunch of news this week at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced a refresh of its Amazon AppStream service for hosting desktop applications that end users can access through a web browser.
The new version of AppStream, dubbed AppStream 2.0, lets AWS customers run the service atop a variety of AWS virtual machine instance types, whereas the original version was limited to the g2.2xlarge instanc