Replicate

You can replicate data from an on-premises geodatabase to a geodatabase in your ArcGIS Server on Amazon Web Services instance.

The geodata geodatabase that is included with your ArcGIS Server on Amazon Web Services instance is intended for this purpose. Register the geodata geodatabase as a replicated database and create a geodata service from it. Then create a replica of your local data, replicating it to the geodata service. As edits are made, you can synchronize changes through the geodata service. See Using a geodata service and a connected replica for more information.

Publish

If you created your site to include a database management system, the egdb geodatabase that is included in the site is registered automatically with your ArcGIS for Server instance. When you publish a feature or WFS-T service, a copy of the data will be moved to the egdb geodatabase and the service will use the data in the egdb geodatabase as its source data.

When you delete the feature or WFS-T service, the corresponding data is deleted from the egdb geodatabase.

Load data you moved to the cloud

You can also physically move data to your geodatabases in your ArcGIS Server on Amazon Web Services instance.

First, you must move the data to Amazon Web Services. Once your source data has been moved to your instance, you must log in to your ArcGIS for Server instance and use the tools provided in ArcGIS for Desktop to load the data into your geodatabase.

From ArcCatalog or the Catalog window in ArcMap, you can do the following:

• Copy data from a source geodatabase, such as a file geodatabase you transferred to Amazon Web Services, and paste it into your geodatabase. See Copying feature datasets, classes, and tables to another geodatabase for more information.
• Create empty feature classes or tables, then use the Simple Data Loader or Object Loader wizard to add data to them. See About loading data into existing feature classes or tables for information on the two wizards.
• Create an empty feature class or table and use a source XML record set document that you uploaded to Amazon Web Services to load data to the feature class or table.
• Use geoprocessing tools to import source shapefiles, coverages, feature classes, tables, rasters, or XML workspace documents that you moved to Amazon Web Services. See An overview of importing datasets for more information.
• Attach a workgroup geodatabase you moved from another ArcGIS Server on Amazon Web Services instance.

If you are using enterprise geodatabases, you also could connect to the DBMS on your ArcGIS Server on Amazon Web Services instance and restore a dump file from an existing geodatabase in PostgreSQL to your PostgreSQL database cluster or attach a database to SQL Server on Amazon EC2 that you detached from another SQL Server instance.

For information on getting source data onto an Amazon Web Services instance, see Strategies for data transfer to Amazon.