For easy to use scenarios of NICE DCV on AWS the NICE DCV for Linux AWS Marketplace offering of has been created: NICE DCV for Linux.

Here are the Usage Instructions – or follow our detailed guide to quickstart DCV on AWS: 

  1. Make sure the instance security groups allow inbound traffic to TCP port 8443.
  2. Make sure the instance has the role to access the license file. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dcv/latest/adminguide/setting-up-license.html
  3. Connect to your remote machine with ssh -i <your-pem-key> ec2-user@<public-dns>
    1. Set the password for the ec2-user with sudo passwd ec2-user. This is the password you will use to log in DCV.
    2. b. create a DCV virtual session using command `dcv create-session <name-of-your-session> https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dcv/latest/adminguide/managing-sessions.html 4.
  4. Connect to your remote machine with the NICE DCV native client or web client using https://<public_dns>:8443.

More information can be found at the NICE DCV for Linux listing.