Configuring portal settings for Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser - Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser

Configuring portal settings for Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser

On the Step 2: Configure web portal settings page, complete the following steps to customize your users' browsing experience when they start a session.

  1. Under Web portal details, for Display name, enter an identifiable name for your web portal.

  2. Under Instance Type, select the instance type for your web portal from the drop-down menu. Then, enter your Max concurrent user limit for the web portal. For more information, see Managing service quotas for your portal in Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser.

    Note

    Selecting a new instance type will change the cost for each monthly active user. For more information, see Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser Pricing.

  3. Under Session Logger, you can specify a S3 bucket for storing session log files. For more information, see Setting up Session Logger for Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser. This is optional.

  4. Under User access logging, for Kinesis stream ID, select the Amazon Kinesis data stream you want to send log files to. For more information, see Setting up user activity logging in Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser. This is optional.

  5. Under IP Access Control, choose whether to restrict access to trusted networks. For more information, see Managing IP access controls in Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser. This is optional.

  6. Under Data Protection Settings, you can create policies for WorkSpaces Secure Browser to redact sensitive information. For more information, see Managing data protection settings in Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser. This is optional.

  7. Under URL filtering, you can specify which URLs end users are allowed to access or block specific URLs or domain categories to restrict access. For more information, see Web content filtering in Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser. This is optional.

    1. To restrict session browsing to a few selected domains, enable the toggle Block all URLs and click add URL to provide the list of URLs your end users are allowed to access.

    2. To create a list of URLs to block for end users, click Add URL to list the single URLs to block or click Add categories to select categories of domains that are blocked (e.g., Social Networking).

  8. Under Policy settings, you can set any browser policy using Chrome policies available for the latest stable version to the web portal. For more information, see Managing browser policy in Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser. This is optional.

    1. You can quickly select some of the most common policies in the Visual editor

      • For Startup URL - optional, enter a domain to use as the homepage when users launch their browser. Your VPC must have a stable connection to this URL.

      • Select or clear Private browsing and History deletion to turn these features on or off during a user's session

        Note

        URLs visited while browsing privately, or before a user deletes their browser history, can't be recorded in user access logging. For more information, see Setting up user activity logging in Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser.

      • For Browser bookmarks - optional, enter the Display name, Domain, and Folder for any bookmarks you want your users to see in their browser. Then, choose Add bookmark.

        Note

        Domain is a required field for browser bookmarks.

        In Chrome, users can find managed bookmarks in the Managed bookmarks folder on the bookmarks toolbar.

    2. You can also directly add or edit policies by using the JSON editor instead of the visual editor. For the specific format of a policy, please refer to Chrome Enterprise policy list.

    3. You can also import the Chrome policies used in your organization by uploading a JSON file into the web portal. For details, please see Tutorial: Setting a custom browser policy in Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser

      When you upload a policy file, you can see the available policies in the file in the console. However, you can't edit all policies in the visual editor. The console lists policies in your JSON file that you can't edit with the visual editor under Additional JSON policies. To make changes to these policies, you must edit them manually.

  9. Add Tags to your portal. You can use tags to search for or filter your AWS resources. Tags consist of a key and optional value and are associated with your portal resource. This is optional.

  10. Choose Next to continue.