Enable Home Folders for Your AppStream 2.0 Users
Before enabling home folders, you must do the following:
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Check that you have the correct AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions for Amazon S3 actions. For more information, see Using IAM Policies to Manage Administrator Access to the Amazon S3 Bucket for Home Folders and Application Settings Persistence.
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Use an image that was created from an AWS base image released on or after May 18, 2017. For a current list of released AWS images, see AppStream 2.0 Base Image and Managed Image Update Release Notes.
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Enable network connectivity to Amazon S3 from your virtual private cloud (VPC) by configuring internet access or a VPC endpoint for Amazon S3. For more information, see Networking and Access for Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Using Amazon S3 VPC Endpoints for AppStream 2.0 Features.
You can enable or disable home folders while creating a stack (see Create a Stack in Amazon AppStream 2.0), or after the stack is created by using the AWS Management Console for AppStream 2.0, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI. For each AWS Region, home folders are backed up by an Amazon S3 bucket.
The first time you enable home folders for an AppStream 2.0 stack in an AWS Region, the service creates an Amazon S3 bucket in your account in that same Region. The same bucket is used to store the content of home folders for all users and all stacks in that Region. For more information, see Amazon S3 Bucket Storage.
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For guidance that you can provide your users to help them get started with using home folders during AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions, see Use Home Folders.
To enable home folders while creating a stack
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Follow the steps in Create a Stack in Amazon AppStream 2.0, and make sure that Enable Home Folders is selected.
To enable home folders for an existing stack
Open the AppStream 2.0 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/appstream2
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In the left navigation pane, choose Stacks, and select the stack for which to enable home folders.
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Below the stacks list, choose Storage and select Enable Home Folders.
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In the Enable Home Folders dialog box, choose Enable.
