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Use CloudFormation to create an enterprise geodatabase and register it with an ArcGIS Server site

In the workflow described below, three Esri Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudFormation templates are used to create a stand-alone ArcGIS Server site and an enterprise geodatabase registered with the ArcGIS Server site. Using this workflow, you can set up a deployment architecture as shown in the following diagram:

Single-machine ArcGIS Server site with a registered database in Amazon RDS

Follow these steps to create the architecture depicted above.

  1. Use the Esri AWS CloudFormation template for a VPC with two public subnets to create an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
  2. Use the single-machine ArcGIS Server site Esri CloudFormation template to create an ArcGIS Server site on one Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance.

    Tip:

    • Use an ArcGIS GIS Server license file.
    • For the VPC ID and SubnetID input parameters, use the output values from the stack created in step 1.
    • If you will create a geodatabase in Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server, the ArcGIS Server site must run on a Microsoft Windows instance.

  3. Use one of the following Esri CloudFormation templates to create an enterprise geodatabase in the applicable database service type:

    Tip:

    • For the VPC ID and SubnetID input parameters, use the output values from the stack created in step 1.
    • For the Site Administrator User Name and Site Administrator User Password input parameters, use the same values that you used when creating the ArcGIS Server site in step 2.
    • For the ArcGIS Server Instance ID input parameter, choose the EC2 instance ID created by the CloudFormation template you used in step 2.
    • If you created an ArcGIS GIS Server site, you can add the geodatabase as a registered database, which means it will store source data.