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# Architecture overview
Architecture overview

The following figure shows the high-level architecture of the Amazon WorkSpaces solution, depicting internet access by a customer to access an Amazon WorkSpaces Windows client over the internet to an Amazon WorkSpace. 

![\[A diagram depicting Amazon WorkSpaces smart card architecture.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/access-workspaces-with-access-cards/images/workspaces-smartcard3.png)


* Amazon WorkSpaces smart card architecture diagram *