RDP does not signal an auto-stop workspace to start. If you want to start a workspace without the client, you can use the API. So you will either need to use the client, start the workspaces programmatically or use always-on. Using the client is likely the best path. You can restrict the client to only connect if it is coming from your company IPs. This does not require the Workspaces to connect to the internet, only the client.

Hello, I'm pretty new to AWS but I was wondering if you can auto start an Workspace instance via an RDP connection. It seems to work via the client but we want to use these instances internally only and have a requirement that they don't connect to the internet.

Thanks in advance!

Trigger Workspace auto start via RDP