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Modify a virtual desktop - Research and Engineering Studio

End of development notice: AWS is discontinuing development of Research and Engineering Studio on AWS (RES). 2026.09 is the final release, supported through September 30, 2027. RES remains open source and keeps running in your account. For more information, see RES end of support.

Modify a virtual desktop

You can update the hardware of your virtual desktop or change the session name.

  1. Before making changes to the instance size, you must stop the session:

    1. Choose Actions.

      Virtual desktops

    2. Choose Virtual Desktop State.

    3. Choose Stop.

    Note

    You cannot update the desktop size for hibernated sessions.

  2. After you have confirmed the desktop has stopped, choose Actions and then choose Update Session.

  3. Change the session name or choose a new desktop size.

  4. Choose Submit.

  5. After your instances update, restart your desktop:

    1. Choose Actions.

    2. Choose Virtual Desktop State.

    3. Choose Start.