What's new for ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4 on Amazon Web Services—ArcGIS Enterprise in the cloud

The 11.4 release of ArcGIS Enterprise on Amazon Web Services (AWS) includes the new options and changes described in the sections below.

Changes to ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for Amazon Web Services

The following has changed in ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for Amazon Web Services at this release:

The 11.4 Cloud Builder app and ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services no longer create or upgrade ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server sites, because ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server is not longer supported.
If you have an ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server site federated with an ArcGIS Enterprise deployment, the site will be removed from the GeoAnalytics Server role when you upgrade, but you must unfederate the site from the portal and delete the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances on which ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server was installed.
The option to create a managed database has been removed, as it is not supported.
After you upgrade an ArcGIS Enterprise deployment, you must configure an object store for the deployment if members will publish hosted scene layers or hosted 3D tiles layers, or will use hosted feature layer query caching.

The following changes have been made to the CloudFormation templates that are provided by Esri with the 11.4 release:

The following new CloudFormation templates are available for 11.4:

A new infrastructure template is available that allows you to create an EC2 instance to act as a shared file server for the portal content directory, the ArcGIS Server configuration store, ArcGIS Server directories, and ArcGIS Data Store backups.
A new template is available to upgrade a spatiotemporal big data store that you created using the spatiotemporal big data store cluster with separate roles template.

Several changes have been made to CloudFormation templates provided by Esri at this release.

The ID of the EC2 instance you create using the new shared file server template can be used with all CloudFormation templates provided by Esri that create stacks containing multiple machines.
A deployment mode parameter is added to the templates that create a highly available ArcGIS Enterprise deployment and deploy Portal for ArcGIS in high availability mode to define whether components are installed on one machine or two.
You can provide a secondary domain to use for internal communication when you use CloudFormation templates for the following workflows:
You must create the domain before running the templates.
When you use the CloudFormation template to federate sites, you can provide a Server Administration URL to use for internal communication when the site is federated with the ArcGIS Enterprise deployment.
The ArcGIS Server GeoAnalytics role is removed from the CloudFormation template that federates sites.
The option to create a managed database has been removed from all the database CloudFormation templates.
Before you use the template to federate an ArcGIS Image Server site for Raster Analytics or Image Hosting, you must configure a raster store in ArcGIS Server Manager.

A new AWS region is supported—ap-southeast-5.
The ArcGIS Data Store tile cache data store is deprecated at this release. Existing tile cache data stores can be upgraded, and existing hosted scene layers continue to function. To allow users to publish new hosted scene layers, though, you must configure an object store with the deployment. You are also encouraged to migrate hosted scene layer caches to the object store.
Note:
If you upgrade the deployment using a CloudFormation template provided by Esri, you may need to update IAM role policies before you configure the object store.
See the latest deprecation notices on the Esri support site for a list of deprecated functionality.

For information on bug fixes, see the 11.4 Issues Addressed List.