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Enable Home Folders for Your AppStream 2.0 Users

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Enable Home Folders for Your AppStream 2.0 Users - Amazon AppStream 2.0

Before enabling home folders, you must do the following:

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.

Note

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
To enable home folders for an existing stack
  1. Open the AppStream 2.0 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/appstream2.

  2. In the left navigation pane, choose Stacks, and select the stack for which to enable home folders.

  3. Below the stacks list, choose Storage and select Enable Home Folders.

  4. In the Enable Home Folders dialog box, choose Enable.

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