Updates to Leostream’s Remote Desktop Access automates the entire desktop lifecycle from AWS/Azure cloud integration to secure, more scalable operations, to the end-user experience.
New updates to the Leostream Remote Desktop Access Platform 2025.2 now automate the entire desktop lifecycle. The system’s cloud integration with AWS/Azure is stronger, and it includes improvements to governance and security, a better end-user experience, and more scalable operations. New features have also been added to its Privileged Remote Access service, which is a Vendor Privileged Access Management (VPAM) tool.
Leostream’s new 2025.2 releases include updates designed for administrators, employees using the platform to access their day-to-day workloads, and external parties granted access to internal resources. RESTful API improvements, deeper Active Directory integration and new user session troubleshooting and management tools are other ways to simplify the delivery of hosted desktop/workstations.
New features for AWS and Azure make the Leostream platform a critical tool in cloud, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments. Large enterprises and growing organisations, or even small companies with high volumes and high-velocity IT goals, can take advantage of the enhancements for simpler scaling.
Automating Onboarding and Management
Collectively, these enhancements enable zero-touch lifecycle management for user identities and machines, aiming to improve forecasting and establish efficient shortcuts for audits, investigations or troubleshooting.
Zero-Touch automated systems minimise manual intervention during installation and configuration, using preconfigured settings to deploy and manage software. The use of standardized procedures across all applications and endpoints helps to simplify device setup and integration, improving operational efficiency and avoiding errors during deployment.
With wider RESTful API coverage, administrators can fully script user onboarding, VM maintenance, cloud configuration and provisioning updates. The platform now allows users to reset AD (Active Directory) passwords within the Leostream Web client so that IT teams spend less time on password resets and the user experience is smoother.
New APIs result in closer alignment with HR/HRIS and IT, and simplify methods of adding, changing and deleting end user records within the Leostream Platform. With these additions, user records can be updated automatically via scripts, keeping pace with fluctuations in the size of the workforce and reducing manual steps that cause delays and chances for error. New options for role-level dashboard visibility also create opportunities for more granular administrator privileges.
Administrators can now create scripts for detailed desktop usage analysis, such as determining which users are mapped to which VM at peak hours. They can analyze activity or usage patterns across all virtual desktops, or see what resources are consumed. Scripts can place machines in scheduled maintenance mode, pull desktops out of active pools for patching and updating, and make them available again.
Cloud Resources in AWS and Azure
New and updated features in Platform 2025.2 affecting usage of the major cloud providers help users take better advantage of their cloud resources, improve CI/CD (continuous integration / continuous deployment) and DevOps pipelines, and expand the platform’s value in cost-sensitive cloud deployments.
Through the Leostream platform, bringing Windows 11 desktops into AWS is now straightforward, using Bring Your Own License with support for provisioning persistent instances for WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances. The idea for BYOL is to reduce IT costs, allow more flexibility in OS licensing and unify management of both persistent and non-persistent WorkSpaces Core instances.
The inventory of available AWS instance sizes is kept up-to-date, giving access when new cloud hardware is available, such as the newest GPU or memory-optimized instances, as soon as AWS releases them. The Leostream platform can now detect these automatically without manual configuration.
Accurate Automation Pipelines
For accuracy in automation pipelines, less risk of misconfiguration and faster updates across pools, Platform 2025.2 now includes the AWS image ID when importing images (software used to set up and boot an Amazon EC2 instance), as well as the image name. Administrators who update provisioning parameters in pools, and DevOps teams that automate pool provisioning and updates, can now use scripts to reference exact AMI IDs instead of potentially ambiguous names.
Azure customers can now use Leostream’s Centers API to add and edit Azure geographic centres, improving flexibility and automation for CI/CD or DevOps installations integrating the Leostream Connection Broker with their workflows. Organizations using Leostream with Azure centres will see full automation of cloud lifecycle events, faster deployments with less manual configuration, and improved Marketplace workflows.
A Connection Broker opens remote access to all of a user’s resources by acting as an intermediary – users can access all desktops and applications on-demand from locations with an internet connection.
Leostream Privileged Remote Access Service
Updates to Leostream’s secure, enterprise-ready privileged access service – available with or without the primary Leostream platform – make it easier to adopt and simpler to scale across large ecosystems of third-party access partners. It supports secure, controlled, monitored privileged access for contractors, mediators and other third-party vendors. These features address large enterprises with long vendor lists, complex identity systems and multi-team support operations.
For faster and more accurate vendor onboarding, administrators can send invitations in bulk instead of one at a time, improving functionality especially for sectors that rely heavily on external specialists.
New automated identity flow integrates with Microsoft Entra ID SSO to more closely align privileged third-party access with established corporate identity policies. This functionality unifies the login experience, strengthens the ability to audit and reduces the risk of unmanaged accounts, which are common attack vectors in incidents stemming from third-party access.
A message board improves coordination with external teams and ensures that vendors stay informed about downtime, upgrades and security requirements inside the Leostream service portal itself.
“Leostream’s 2025.2 release makes it one of the most automatable, cloud-flexible and operations-focused remote desktop platforms on the market. Administrators will find multiple new tools for simpler, faster, more flexible operations, and we believe they’ll get a lot fewer help calls from their end users,” said Karen Gondoly, Leostream CEO.
“Meanwhile, users of the Leostream Privileged Remote Access service will also save time through bulk actions, simplified login management and centralised communication. Together these two releases strengthen Leostream’s competitive position as the leading remote access platform for modern workplaces.” leostream.com
