ArcGIS Enterprise on Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides you with Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and tools to help you to deploy the components of ArcGIS Enterprise (ArcGIS Server, Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS Data Store) on AWS. ArcGIS Enterprise components run on Amazon hardware and is administered through web services.
Advantages of deploying on AWS using Esri deployment tools include the following:
No installation required—You don't have to install ArcGIS software yourself. Instead, you can use ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for Amazon Web Services or sample Amazon Web Services CloudFormation templates to create an ArcGIS Server site or ArcGIS Enterprise deployment on AWS. Once you create a deployment, you can immediately connect to it and begin publishing services from an ArcGIS Desktop client or the ArcGIS Enterprise portal.
Scalable on demand—You can configure your site so that ArcGIS Server machines are added in response to certain triggers, such as CPU usage. New servers can be created in a matter of minutes, allowing your site to gracefully respond to abrupt spikes in traffic. When you no longer need the instances, you can destroy them and incur no further charges for them.
No hardware infrastructure to maintain—Deploying ArcGIS Enterprise on Amazon Web Services requires no special hardware; you just need to connect to the internet. After creating a deployment, you can gain fine-grained management of your resources through the AWS Management Console, a web application provided by Amazon. You can log in to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in your deployment using Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Connection or SSH to fine-tune your data, services, and applications.
Deploying in a cloud environment allows you to use as many or as few computing resources as necessary without committing to a long-term purchase of hardware or other information technology infrastructure.
About this help
The help section you are reading focuses on how to deploy ArcGIS Enterprise or ArcGIS Server sites on Amazon Web Services. It also includes topics about maintaining and scaling your deployment on AWS.
If you need general information about ArcGIS Enterprise and its components, geodatabases, or ArcGIS Pro, see the following help locations:
- ArcGIS Enterprise overview
- Portal for ArcGIS administration
- Portal for ArcGIS user help
- ArcGIS Server administration and use
- ArcGIS Data Store administration
- ArcGIS Pro help
Links to other help are also provided throughout this help system where appropriate.