WebStream gives your users clientless, VPN-free browser access to Windows applications and workspaces — running on your own AWS account or on-premises servers, billed by active use instead of provisioned desktops.
Desktop-as-a-Service made access easy but moved your workloads onto someone else’s infrastructure at a per-desktop, per-month price. WebStream delivers the same clientless convenience from infrastructure you control — BYOL, your data, your account.
Everything users like about hosted desktops, delivered through the browser from your own environment.
Any HTML5 browser on any device — no client software, no VPN, no plug-ins, no agents to deploy or patch on endpoints.
Users sign in with their corporate identity and their apps are there — from the office, home, or the road.
Deliver the specific application most users need, or a desktop-style workspace when the job genuinely requires one.
File transfer, clipboard, print/PDF, and session persistence all work — governed by policy, not blocked by it.
Access is granted to identities, not networks — and every session runs inside guardrails you define.
SSO and MFA through your identity provider. No user ever receives network-level access to the Windows host.
Users reach exactly the applications and workspaces they are entitled to — nothing else is visible or reachable.
File upload/download, clipboard, and print/PDF behaviour controlled per policy set, per user group.
Every session is logged and attributable, giving security teams the visibility RDP and VPN access never provided.
Record sessions where compliance or accountability requires it, with recordings managed from the admin console.
Port 3389 stays closed. Users connect to WebStream over TLS; the Windows host stays off the open network.
The structural difference between DaaS pricing and WebStream’s SessionHours model.
| Area | Traditional DaaS | WebStream ACP |
|---|---|---|
| Billing basis | Per desktop / per user month, whether used or not | SessionHours — active streaming time only |
| What is delivered | A full hosted desktop per user | The application (or a workspace when needed) |
| Infrastructure | Vendor-hosted | Your AWS account or on-premises servers |
| Windows licensing | Bundled into vendor pricing | BYOL — reuse licences you already own |
| Idle cost | Full price for inactive desktops | No streaming, no SessionHours |
| Data location | Vendor's cloud tenancy | Stays in your environment |
| Exit path | Migration project off the hosted service | Your infrastructure — nothing to migrate off |
Model your own workload against WorkSpaces-style per-desktop pricing with the SessionHours pricing calculator.
WebStream runs where you decide and grows with demand — without a hosted service in the middle.
Launch WebStream on EC2 in your own AWS account — including via AWS Marketplace — and add capacity as usage grows.
Install via MSI on Windows servers you already run. Same control plane, same browser experience, no cloud requirement.
Apps, users, entitlements, policies, audit, and recordings managed from a single admin console — with AI-assisted operations via the MCP Server.
The full end-to-end demo: browser login, launching Notepad and LibreOffice, file workflows, and starting a free WebStream Core trial on AWS.
Full WebStream demo — a DaaS-grade experience delivered from infrastructure you control.
Tell us what you run today and we’ll help you model the SessionHours equivalent. Prefer to give us full detail? Use the full assessment form.
DaaS rents you hosted desktops on someone else’s infrastructure, billed per desktop or per user month. WebStream delivers your Windows applications — and workspaces where needed — from your own AWS account or on-premises servers, billed by SessionHours of active use. You keep control of the data, the hosts, and the licences.
Yes. Users sign in through any modern HTML5 browser over TLS. There is no client software, VPN, plug-in, or agent to install, so the experience matches DaaS convenience without a vendor-hosted dependency.
No network access is granted to users. Every session is identity-gated with SSO and MFA, users reach only the applications they are entitled to, and data movement — files, clipboard, print — is governed by policy with a full audit trail. The Windows host is never exposed to the open network.
DaaS typically bills for every provisioned desktop whether or not it is used. WebStream bills SessionHours — active streaming time only — so occasional users, shift patterns, and idle periods do not accumulate cost. Use the pricing calculator to model your workload.
Yes. On AWS you add EC2 capacity as demand grows, and the WebStream control plane manages entitlements, policies, and sessions across hosts. You scale on your terms in your account, rather than a vendor’s hosting tiers.
Start free with WebStream Core — deploy on-premises (MSI) or on AWS — and see the clientless experience with your own applications before any commitment.