If you’re interested in using Docker on AWS Windows using a Windows image, turns out you’re out of luck:
Docker is not currently supported on Windows WorkSpaces:
AWS Workspaces: Docker Desktop for Windows? (not supported)
AWS Workspaces: Web access to Linux Workspaces (not supported)
If you attempt to access an AWS Workspace running Linux via a browser, you’ll get his spinner for what seems like a couple of minutes:
Eventually it times out with this error:
Looking in the docs here this is this note:
Web access to Linux WorkSpaces is currently not supported. Would be nice if it gave you an error when to attempt to logon to tell you it’s not a supported option instead of just falling.