Confirming that shell is running on an Amazon WorkSpace

Question

I am currently writing a number of shell scripts which will run both on an Amazon Workspaces Linux instance and elsewhere on other Linux hosts (e.g. Amazon Linux EC2 instances).

I would like to have certain Bash variable values configured differently depending on whether or not a given script is being run on a WorkSpaces instance.

Given this, I was wondering if there is a way of checking at the OS level whether the host is an Amazon WorkSpace or not?

Answer 1

Although possibly not fail proof, one method of identifying whether a Linux host is one of the Amazon Linux WorkSpaces hosts is to look for the presence of the /usr/share/icons/amazon-workspaces directory where the icon assets for MATE window manager theme are stored.